Joseph Pereira, portrait
Joe Pereira serves as principal timpani in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and teaches at the Thornton School of Music at USC in addition to being a serious voice in the world of new music. Esa-Pekka Salonen brought Pereira from New York, where he had been a member of the New York Philharmonic. Recent commissions have come from Piano Spheres for pianist Vicki Ray, Miró Quartet, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, pianist Joanne Pearce Martin, and the Manhattan School of Music as well as violinist Robert Gupta, with whom Yarlung recorded Joe’s Violin Partita on Suryodaya.
Suryodaya
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Joseph Pereira, Composer
Discography
Suryodaya
album cover photo by Cooper Bates Photography
Other works by Joseph Pereira
Los Angeles Percussion Quartet: Rupa-khandha
Sustenance
