The Michigan composer David Gillingham could have written his concerto for a piano, and it would have been fine. It has some haunting tunes and enough flashy stuff to let the soloist show off. But he ...

It might be the least glamorous place to be inside Asteria Theatre. Room 005 Orchestra Pit: black concrete walls, 10 feet below the stage, invisible to most in the audience. But the melodies that will ...

The Sedona Symphony invites audiences to experience the unexpected at its second concert of the 2025–2026 season, “Mozart & Marimba,” on Sunday, November 23 at the Sedona Performing Arts Center. The ...

LITTLE ROCK — There was plenty of sea in the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Masterworks season finale Saturday night at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Music Hall. But the desert at the center of the ...

Marimba player Eric Whitmer is a high school student who lives in Palo Cedro, a small town in the hill country to the east of Redding. Eric was the top prize winner in a recent youth competition ...

Benjamin Schüle, a Swiss-born classical percussionist, studied at the Schaffhausen conservatory of music. Master classes and further studies at the Mozarteum of Salzburg, Austria and at the Univerity ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

"It's mind-blowing for me to remember that because of one single request from my band director, my life has had such an incredible journey," says Tommy Dobbs, assistant professor of percussion at ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is only since the middle of the 20th century that percussionists have taken off as the soloists in concertos ...