GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids Symphony kicks off its season with a bang. Followed by a crash, a pow and a splash. A Concerto for Section Percussion and Orchestra, composed by Grand Rapids Symphony ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The world premiere of a percussion extravaganza stole the show on Thursday night in Mandel Hall at Severance Music Center and may have set a record for the most percussion ever ...

Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony have appointed two new musicians: Principal Bassoon Joshua Elmore and Section Percussionist Stan Muncy. Principal Bassoon Joshua Elmore ...

At the end of the Spokane Symphony's current 78th season, three musicians will put away their music stands for the final time, taking a combined 142 years of symphony percussion experience with them.

Percussionist Andy Cierny has found drummers are sometimes forgotten in his musical field, especially when anchored to the back of a stage space filled with rows of other musicians front and center ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. They stand at the back of the orchestra, but they're still the loudest thing on stage. Percussionists ...

The word “symphony” is ultimately from Greek “symphonia,” concord of sounds, harmony, a meld of “syn-,” together (as in synchronize, synthesis) and “phōnẽ,” sound (as in phonetics, telephone). The ...

Working with John Williams, karaoke in Japan and hitting things for a living - discover life in the percussion section of the London Symphony Orchestra. I remember thinking what a fabulous job that ...