The members of the dynamic percussion quartet Sō Percussion are Princeton University’s Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence, teaching graduate and undergraduate students as both classroom lecturers and performance coaches. They workshop and premiere new works by student and faculty composers, teach chamber music, present regular masterclasses and perform at least two major concerts in the Princeton community each year.

This program of influences and reverberations, titled “Rhythmic Reflections: Reich and Tarpaga,” features Burkinabé composer and Princeton faculty member Olivier Tarpaga‘s truly contemporary (2024) multi-movement percussion quartet Fēfē, as well as three new pieces. Sō Percussion pairs Tarpaga’s work with classics from the Reich percussion repertoire: “Drumming part I,” “Music for Pieces of Wood,” and “Mallet Quartet.”