Mar 31, 2016 | Article, News
Glenn is in great company at #82 on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Drummers of All Time”. Check it out right here.
Feb 16, 2016 | News, Press
By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim It’s a good thing the sirens that wailed through Zankel Hall on Friday didn’t signal an emergency: The auditorium was so densely packed at the start of So Percussion’s late-evening concert that it would have taken a while to evacuate....
Nov 12, 2015 | News, Press
Composer John Luther Adams and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche collaborate on a recording of Luther Adams’ roiling percussion work Ilimaq. Luther Adams won a Pulitzer last year for Become Ocean, while Kotche has made some serious inroads into modern classical, and...
Jun 18, 2015 | News, Press
“Here is your audience instrument; you take it apart like chopsticks,” said the usher, handing me a couple of glued-together jagged pieces of wood along with my concert program. Audience participation, oh my. This concert was either going to be very good or, more...
May 22, 2015 | News, Press
As each ticket was torn to give entry to Thursday night’s concert at the Museum of Contemporary Art, each bearer received what looked like miniature chopsticks joined at a serrated center. These sticks would be called into play midway through Glenn...
Mar 27, 2014 | News, Press
The Wilco drummer returns with an album of pieces influenced by classical minimalism, including a work writen for the Kronos Quartet. Where his previous albums foregrounded himself as a virtuoso performer, Adventureland is about Kotche as a composer first...