Third Coast Percussion & Salar Nader, tabla, Murmurs in Time

In a tribute to the late tabla master Zakir Hussain, Chicago’s Third Coast Percussion continues a collaboration initiated with the music legend before his passing. The Grammy-winning ensemble had commissioned Hussain to compose Murmurs in Time—a work that combines the beauty and complexity of Hindustani classical music with the group’s new-music ethos. In it, Salar Nader, a tabla virtuoso and disciple of Hussain since age seven, performs his teacher’s part in the ensemble. The program also includes newly commissioned works from composer/performers Jessie Montgomery, Tigran Hamasyan, and Jlin, and a solo performance by Nader.