Featuring Bartok’s monumental SONATA FOR TWO PIANOS AND PERCUSSION, DAN School pianists, Clare Marion and Jenna Simeonov, join forces with DAN School Professor of Percussion, Jamie Drake, and Montreal percussionist, Brydone Charlton.

FREE STUDENT TICKETS: The DAN School invites all youth to celebrate the arts with our $6 and $8 student tickets. New for this year, with the support of the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, the DAN School is removing further barriers by offering any available tickets for free to all students one week before each 2024/25 DAN School Faculty Artist Series concert. Up to two free student tickets can be ordered online using the discount code: STUDENTFREE

Music to be performed includes: Tobin Stokes’ EL SOL DEL SUR (THE SUN OF THE SOUTH) is a work full of heat, radiating from sunny chord clusters and agile rhythms interwoven between the instruments; Béla Bartók’s SONATA FOR TWO PIANOS AND PERCUSSION, one of his most-performed works—He nods to sonata form, yet fills it with experimental sounds and leans hard into atonality, tritones everywhere, and upended rhythms; THE BLUE GUITAR, composed and arranged for our ensemble by our own Jamie Drake, and was inspired by Wallace Stevens’ 1937 poem, THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR, which was in turn inspired by Picasso’s 1903 painting, THE OLD GUITARIST.