About Us
Pathos Trio
"Elevated themselves into those elite ranks alongside Yarn/Wire, Sō Percussion, Tigue, Iktus and Ensemble Et Al", as described by the New York Music Daily, Pathos Trio (percussionists Marcelina Suchocka, Felix Reyes, and pianist/composer Will Healy) is a two percussion and piano trio committed to combining aesthetics of contemporary classical music with their interests in dark, heavy, dense sounds drawn from various genres of music such as alternative rock, progressive/black metal, cathedral music, minimalist music, electronic synth-wave, and more, while also aiming to bring adventurous music to audiences through collaborations with young, living new music composers.
Their accolades include winning 1st place in the 2023 American Prize in Virtual Performance, being Semi Finalists for Concert Artist Guild's 2022 Victor Elmaleh Virtual Competition, 2021 & 2022 Ensemble Forward Grantees from Chamber Music America, and receiving over the years project support from various national music organizations and New York State sources of funding such as New Music USA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Johnstone Fund for New Music, Amphion Foundation, Alice Ditson Fund, and New York State Council for the Arts, amongst others.
Their current 2023-2024 season activities include touring around their 6 new commissions from their sophomore album “Polarity”, which contains new works for two percussionists and piano written by composers Paul Mortilla, Andrew Rodriguez, Ian Chang (from Oscar winning ensemble Son Lux), Clara Warnaar, Phong Tran, and Vicente Hansen Atria. Audio for the album was recorded by Grammy® nominated Audio Engineer Ryan Streber and the music videos for each track on this album was recorded by award winning Philadelphia based film company Four/Ten Media. This album released on September 15th, 2023 through Imaginary Animals music label, and is graciously supported by New Music USA, Amphion Foundation, and Chamber Music America, Pathos Trio being a recipient of a Chamber Music America Recording Grant, made possible with generous support from the New York Community Trust.
Marcelina Suchocka
Born in Bialystok, Poland, Marcelina Suchocka is Principal Percussionist of Sarasota Orchestra, Britt Music Festival, and former Percussion Fellow at the New World Symphony. Currently she performs regularly as an extra/substitute percussionist for the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Dallas Symphony, and Detroit Symphony.
In the past Marcelina has spent summers as a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts and the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. She was also a fellow at the Music Academy of the West, National Repertory Orchestra and Spoleto Festival. She has been the recipient of many awards including first prize in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Young Artist Concerto Competition, Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award and Polish National Alliance's Young Artist Award.
In her early years Marcelina has performed as soloist with the Chicago Symphony and at Carnegie Hall as a winner of the NPR's YouTube Big Break competition. She is one of the founding members of Excelsis, an all-female percussion quartet based in New York City and is a founding member of Pathos Trio. She also performs as an extra percussionist with Ensemble SRQ, which is a contemporary/new music ensemble based in Sarasota, FL.
Ms. Suchocka graduated from Manhattan School of Music, where she completed both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees under Christopher Lamb, Duncan Patton, She-e Wu, Kyle Zerna, Patsy Dash and Douglas Waddell.
Will Healy
Will Healy is a composer, pianist, improviser, and educator based in New York. Aiming to write music that enables collaborations among inspiring artists regardless of genre boundaries, he is the artistic director of ShoutHouse, a collective of hip-hop, jazz, and classical musicians. He recorded and released his first full-length album in 2019, including a 40-minute song cycle for rappers, soloists, and chamber orchestra, which was released on New Amsterdam Records. As a pianist, he has a passion for both new and old music, particularly the works of J.S. Bach, with a repertoire that includes the complete Goldberg Variations and Well-Tempered Clavier. He studied composition at the Juilliard School, where his teachers were Samuel Adler, John Corigliano, and Steven Stucky.
Recent collaborations include directing and arranging for Kanye West, writing original music for the New York Philharmonic’s “Young People’s Concerts”, and composing a piano concerto for Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra with himself on piano. Healy’s awards include a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, the W.K. Rose Fellowship, and a J-Fund commission. His work has appeared recently at The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, New York City Ballet, and (le) Poisson Rouge, among others. For the past two years, he has been serving as composer-in-residence for the Midsummer’s Music Festival in Door County, Wisconsin. He recently moved to Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, where he has been enjoying spending maskless time with friends on his roof.
Felix Reyes
Born in Brentwood, New York, Felix Reyes is Managing Director of Pathos Trio and is a freelance chamber musician/percussionist living in Brooklyn, NY. He has performed all over the United States and several countries abroad, including Germany, Poland, Spain, Japan, Switzerland, and El Salvador. He most recently became Artistic Director of international percussion group Symmetrio, which based out of Alicante, Spain.
Felix graduated with his Master’s in Percussion Performance from Bowling Green State University under the direction of marimba specialist Dr. Isabelle Huang and furthering his specialization on marimba performance, Felix also studied privately under Katarzyna Mycka, Ney Rosauro, and in 2016 received a Diploma in Marimba Performance at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Sengawa, Japan, where he studied with marimba legend/virtuoso Keiko Abe.
Since then Felix has performed all across NYC in venues such as The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Roulette Intermedium, National Sawdust, Kaufman Music Center, and had made his solo Lincoln Center debut in May 2018 alongside Swiss percussion soloist Fabian Ziegler. Over the course of his career Felix has worked and collaborated with countless acclaimed international artists/composers including all members of Sō Percussion, Michael Colgrass, Dai Fujikura, Jennifer Hidgon, Kaoru Watanabe, and Christos Hatzis.
His current activities outside of Pathos Trio include working as Studio Manager for Grammy Nominated Percussion Quartet Sandbox Percussion, and working as a freelance Grant Writer for various NYC nonprofits. Felix is a proud endorser of Marimba One keyboard instruments, Sabian Cymbals, Pearl Drums, and Vic Firth sticks and mallets.