Sō is back! On Sept. 18, the percussion quartet and Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence at Princeton University performed their season opener in Princeton with a program featuring works from the ...

The marimba has an interesting history in which, oddly enough, Pennsylvania plays a major role. It is one of the oldest of musical instruments. There are records that the marimba existed in a much ...

This Sunday, the UI Percussion Program will feature a range of instruments and compositions to showcase the diversity of percussion sound during its annual Iowa Fall Percussion Concert. The Voxman ...

With a career spanning more than 20 years, Glennie has forged – and sustained – a full-time job as a solo percussionist. And she’s done so despite being profoundly deaf. Glennie, 42, started losing ...

They first met as students at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. Now, they form half of the Yale Percussion Group — a tight-knit ensemble comprising the six students in Professor of ...

UCLA’s Percussion Ensemble will set the rhythm straight with an upcoming recital. Every quarter, percussion performance lecturer Theresa Dimond’s class performs in Schoenberg Hall. After a quarter ...

The steelpan - a percussion instrument created in Trinidad and Tobago in 1939 - is making a comeback as a new generation ...

Through many of us may kitchen-top-finger-tap or office-desk-thumb-drum out of impatience or boredom, folks like Jeremy Ellis and Wilhelm Grahsl have turned it into an impressive art form, with a ...

Samba can’t be learned from a textbook alone. Brazil’s musical tradition is best understood first-hand and up close — close enough to feel the drumbeat reverberate inside you. “ It's like an ocean of ...

When the Philadelphia Orchestra presents a concert this Saturday evening June 1, Angela Nelson of Media will be in her usual spot in the percussion section near the back of the stage. Unlike most of ...