Ninkasi Percussion Group to perform Sunday

NATCHITOCHES - The Ninkasi Percussion Group will present a concert of percussion quartets at Northwestern State University on Sunday, Sept. 29 at 2 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public. A livestream of the concert will be available at nsula.edu/capa/capalivestream.

The concert will include three works commissioned by the group: "XX" by Joe W. Moore III, "Hymns for Ninkasi" by Brett William Dietz, and a new work by Susan Powell. The program serves as a preview concert for their performance at the 2024 Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, in November.

Formed in 2019, the Ninkasi Percussion Group has performed and toured throughout the United States. The group focuses on performing current percussion chamber literature as well as composing and commissioning new works for the idiom. The quartet consists of Gregory Lyons (Louisiana Tech), Gustavo Miranda (Nicholls State), Oliver Molina (Northwestern State) and Moore, who teaches at the University of Texas at Arlington.