Southeastern Department of Fine and Performing Arts presents Daniel Pate
Friday, March 4, 2016
by: Rene Abadie
HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts
will present percussionist Daniel Pate in a recital Monday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m.
in the Pottle Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Pate is an active performer in New York City and the surrounding areas including
performances in the Ojai Music Festival, the Mondavi Center, Symphony Space, and the
Abrons Center. Additionally, he has performed in the Green Umbrella Series held at
Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles.
“As an advocate of contemporary music, he has presented premiers by Paula Matthusen
and Adam Beard and has been a guest performer with the contemporary ensemble ‘Red
Fish, Blue Fish,’” according to Logan Place, instructor of trumpet and undergraduate
coordinator for Southeastern.
Along with pursuing a doctorate in contemporary music performance at Stony Brook
University in New York, Pate is a faculty member at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in
Michigan where he performs as a soloist and Chamber musician. He also serves as a
percussionist and a member of the steering committee for the New York Electroacoustic
Music Festival.
The works he will perform include pieces by composers Erik Lund, Philippe Hurel,
David Lang, Kevin Volans, James Stephenson, and Alejandro Viñao.
For more information, contact Place at 985-549-2184.
