Big Ears

Montreal native Gabe Globus-Hoenich is one of Philadelphia's most
promising young percussionists.  As an orchestral percussionist, Gabe
has appeared at, among others, Carnegie Hall in New York City,
Shostakovich Hall in St. Petersburg, and Boston's Symphony Hall, and
has worked with renowned conductors including Christoph Eschenbach,
Simon Rattle, Charles Dutoit, and Alan Gilbert.  Gabe is also an avid
performer of contemporary classical music, and performs with the
Philadelphia-based Chamber Music Now! Ensemble.  He has performed with
members of the Grammy-winning ensemble eighth blackbird and with
marimba virtuoso Robert Van Sice, and has premiered works by rising
star composers Stratis Minakakis, Gene Coleman, Susie Ibarra and
Sebastian Chang, among others.  Gabe also co-leads the Curtis
Percussion Quartet, which recently won the 2008 Percussive Arts
Society Percussion Ensemble Competion and will be appearing in the
2008 Percussive Arts Society Convention in Austin Texas.  As an
improviser, Gabe has played with Tim Berne, Ralph Alessi, Mark Helias,
Marc Ducret, Andy Milne, Drew Gress, Larry McKenna, Matt Davis, and
many others.  In 2007, Gabe studied jazz and improvisation at the
School for Improvised Music in New York City, where he worked with
improvising artists such as Vijay Iyer, Jim Black, Gerald Cleaver,
Steve Coleman, Tony Malaby, and Ravi Coltrane.  Gabe continues to
perform improvised music in Philadelphia in a variety of musical
contexts, often collaborating with fellow percussionist Patricia
Franceschy.
In addition to his work as a classical and improvising musician, Gabe
also studies several types of world percussion. He is a member of
Alokli, a Philadelphia-based Ewe drumming ensemble, and also
frequently studies and performs Cuban Bata music with Philadelphia
multi-percussionist Shawn Hennessey.  Also, Gabe is a member of Latin
Fiesta, where he plays latin percussion in educational presentations
and concerts.  This past June Gabe served on the faculty of the
inaugural session of the Reading Summer Music Institute, a program
designed to offer intensive music study to students in and around
Reading PA.  Gabe has also teaches extensively within the Philadelphia
school systems, as a member of the outreach department for the Curtis
Institute.
A 2008 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Gabe has studied
with some of the premier percussion teachers in the world, including
Don Liuzzi, Robert Van Sice, Alan Abel, Stanley Leonard, Sal Rabbio,
She-e Wu, Rolando Morales-Matos, Scott Robinson, and many more.  Also
Gabe has studied privately with Tyshawn Sorey and Ted Poor.