WITHOUT BORDERS

Without Borders Percussion Quartet, formed in 2016, features four musicians from the United States and Taiwan. The members include Will Alderman, Kathryn Irwin, Yun Ju (Alice) Pan, and Alex Smith. They have performed in Taiwan, Michigan, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, as the invited guest artists at the 2020 McCormick Marimba Festival in Tampa, Florida, and for Keiko Abe and her students at Toho Gakuen School of Music in Japan. Their first album, String Quartet No. 5, was released in March 2023 with Chorphilia of Yun Ju Pan’s transcription of String Quartet No. 5 by Béla Bartók. They compose and perform works by members of the group for percussion, technology, and mixed instrumentation.