Thu 2/6 @ 8PM
Osaka native Tatsuya Nakatani is known as a percussion virtuoso and a musical adventurer.
Based in the U.S. for the last two decades, he’s roamed all over the world sharing his creative energy in solo performances, collaborations, recordings, workshops, and master classes.
In the process, his work encompasses drums, cymbals, gongs, and various objects whose original intended use was not musical. He’s as wide-ranging in the musical genres he draws from, which include jazz, rock, ambient, and noise, mixed together with an experimental sensibility.
He’ll demonstrate his penchant for spontaneity and exploration when he performs at MOCA with his Nagatani Gong Orchestra. It’s not a set group he tours with. Instead, at each show, the NGO comprises a group of pre-selected area musicians whom he spends the day training before they perform with him that evening.
The performers for the Cleveland show include Brad Bolton, Mell Csicsila, Ron Jost, Amy Mothersbaugh,Paul Stranahan, Luke Rinderknecht, Julie Hutchison, Dawn Schroeder, Jose Alberto Luna, James Peake, and Benjamin Hardin.
Tickets are $8 for MOCA members, $10 for non-members.
mocacleveland.org/atsuya-nakatani-nakatani-gong-orchestra
hhproduction.org/TATSUYANAKATANI