Percurama Percussion Ensemble

The combination of students and teachers means that the ensemble features many participants from the Danish percussion scene. The number of musicians varies from 2 to 25, depending on the repertoire to be played.

Forum Percurama is a melting-pot of various artistic forms such as ‘contemporary concerts’, ‘cross-over performance’, drums and modern dance, world/ethno music, concerts for children, trash music, music theatre, percussion and choir and percussion combined with ‘real-time painting’ and gamelan ensemble.

One thing all Percurama activities share is the fascination with the ritual power of drums, pulse and rhythm that is created by a blend of sounds, sound-effects and the use of a large number of instruments.

For years, Percurama has had a fruitful cooperation with the French conductor Jean Thorel, one that has resulted in many performances of works composed for enormous groups of percussion, including: Edgar Varese Ionisation, Lou Harrison Labyrinth #3, Gérard Grisey Le noir de l’étoile and Alberto Ginastera Cantata para America Magica.

Percurama collaborated with the Danish choir Ars Nova in presenting a unique version of John Cage’s Song Books at the famous Viking ship museum in Roskilde, where a music circus was established for singing voices, percussion, electronics and actors.