"An experience like no other."
- Charlotte Wickert, keyboard
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History of TD Orchestra
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Beginnings
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The idea of TD Orchestra goes back to March 2020, when Tatsuya Daniel (aka Tats), then a final-year undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), came up with the idea of a remote recording project with the MIT Wind Ensemble percussionists after the emergence of COVID-19 forced everyone to leave campus. Tats composed the entire piece, which was the first time he had composed anything.
Since then, Tats has continued to write more music, most notably Endeavor, another percussion piece that the MIT Wind Ensemble percussionists recorded in November 2020, followed by an entire album, called Sounds of Percussion, which was released in February 2022 and gained international recognition. By early 2023, Tats assembled a full orchestra, which he named after himself. The orchestra is currently recording and performing the latest album he has composed, as well as planning a number of tours internationally.
Read the full history and outlook of the TD Orchestra here.
Sounds of Percussion: the album that sparked international collaborations
On February 6, 2022, 23 musicians from what would eventually become the TD Orchestra, most of whom percussionists, released an album called Sounds of Percussion on over 70 music stores worldwide, including Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and YouTube Music. The night of its release, the album was premiered online on YouTube; the livestream was viewed by 11,000 people around the world in real time, with another 2,000 watching it within 24 hours of the premiere.
Along with the album pieces, the 5-hour Sounds of Percussion premiere featured music videos and performances from people and groups all around the world, most of whom still collaborate with TD Orchestra. Additionally, the premiere included virtual performances of the MIT Wind Ensemble percussion section recorded from spring 2020 until summer 2021, most notably a creative rendition of Stool Pigeon by Julie Davila.
Click below to see more!
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Sounds of Percussion: Full Videos
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Sounds of Percussion Album World Premiere on YouTube
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Sounds of Percussion on Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music and YouTube Music
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Sounds of Percussion Album World Premiere concert program
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What Makes Us Human premiere
In April 2023, about 25 TD Orchestra musicians premiered a piece called What Makes Us Human, which was written by Tatsuya Daniel and is dedicated to all the music schools TD Orchestra has around the world, and to all the people and communities they serve. The musicians premiered the piece on back-on-back days, first at Brown University and then the following day at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). These concerts were the first time that a group of TD Orchestra musicians had performed together in person, post-pandemic.
During both concerts, a video preceded the live premiere of the piece, which highlighted everything TD Orchestra had done up to that point; it already had projects in seven countries around the world despite only being five months old at the time of the performances.
The What Makes Us Human video can be found here, as well as recordings of the performances at Brown and MIT.
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