POPOCATEPETL PERCUSSION DUO

Sunday Matinee at the House of Culture in Trieste

POPOCATEPETL PERCUSSION DUO
Marko Jugovic and Gabriele Petracco

Sunday, 16 February at 11.00
SSG Small Hall
followed by an aperitif

Programme
Steve Reich, Nagoya marimbas
Marko Jugovic, Giant’s Causewy
Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata K. 141 (trans. Tchiki duo)
Casey Cangelosi, Theatric no. 6
Marko Jugovic, Klopotarus
Nebojša Jovan Živković, Ultimatum II
Matt Savage, Desert Celebration

Popocatepetl Percussion is a duo of percussionists from Trieste, composed of Marko Jugovic and Gabriele Petracco, who have been working for many years to promote new music for this ensemble (which in this case means two musicians with different combinations of percussion instruments).

Jugovic has deepened his knowledge of classical and contemporary serious music while living in Italy and the Netherlands, and has become closer to jazz and world music. Since 2017 he has been collaborating with the National Orchestra of the Italian Broadcasting Corporation. His compositions have been commissioned and performed in the Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia and Italy. Petracco is a percussion teacher and percussion orchestra leader at the music school of the wind orchestra “G. Verdi Città di Trieste” and since 2017 he has been collaborating with the orchestra of the G. Verdi Opera Theatre in Trieste.

Their Popocatepetl Percussion Duo project was founded in 2013 in Trieste and has matured at the Academy of Music in Rotterdam. The duo has performed at the Trieste Loves Jazz Festival, in theatres in the Netherlands, Croatia and various places in Italy, among others. They are also the artistic directors of the International Percussion Premiere Night, an international competition for composers which to date has christened nine compositions by composers from Italy, Greece, USA, Mexico, Argentina and China. The duo’s commitment to expanding the original repertoire is central to the work of both musicians, who will also present the world premiere of Giant’s Causeway by Marko Jugovic, alongside an arrangement of a Baroque composition and contemporary international and Slovenian literature. In these pieces, the audience will be able to hear a variety of percussion instruments, as the performers will use the marimba, lithophone, tamtam and various drums.

As is tradition, the concert will be followed by an aperitif for all present, and the theatre’s café will be open half an hour before the start of the concert, while the box office will be open an hour before.

Admission: 10 eur

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