EGG HARBOR - Birch Creek Music Performance Center opens its 43rd summer concert season Thursday with the first performance in its Percussion & Steel Band session.
Birch Creek is a residential summer music academy for advanced young musicians. With a performance emphasis, students are taught by nationally known performers and educators during the day and perform alongside them in concerts at night in the 500-seat Dutton Concert Barn on the Birch Creek campus. Sessions run two weeks and focus on Percussion & Steel Band, Symphony, and Big Band Jazz I and II. Small student groups play prelude concerts starting 30 to 45 minutes before each performance under the gazebo outside the barn or in Juniper Hall.
Percussion & Steel Band concerts at Birch Creek feature a wide array of musical styles, including Caribbean steel pan, standard percussion ensembles, classic jazz, world percussion, rearrangements of popular contemporary pieces, and new music.
The opening-night concert, the first of seven over two weeks, is titled “Positively Percussion I: A Faculty Showcase.”
Dan Moore, professor of percussion at the University of Iowa, will return for his 20th season at Birch Creek and his third as program director for the session.
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