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Metric are a Canadian indie rock band founded in 1998 in Toronto, Ontario. [2] The band consists of Emily Haines (lead vocals, synthesizers , guitar, tambourine, harmonica, piano), James Shaw (guitar, synthesizers, theremin , backing vocals), Joshua Winstead (bass, synthesizers, backing vocals) and Joules Scott-Key (drums, percussion).
Kampela's compositions, particular his Percussion Studies for Guitar, have been performed numerous times around the world (North America, South America, Europe, and Asia), resulting in dozens of renditions on YouTube, [13] at the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, [14] the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, and by ensembles such as the New ...
brass (3 trumpets, 4 horns) and percussion brass (7 trumpets) and percussion: composed as a 70th birthday present for Karl-Friedrich Still, Walton's neighbour in Ischia: Chamber music: 1919, 1921: Piano Quartet: violin, viola, cello and piano: revised 1921 and 1974–1975 Chamber music: 1919–1922: String Quartet No. 1: 2 violins, viola and ...
The British composer and percussionist James Wood has contributed several works to the repertoire, including Stoicheia (1987–88), requiring over 600 instruments played by 16 percussionists, as well as electronics, Village Burial with Fire for percussion quartet (1989), and Spirit Festival with Lamentations, for quarter-tone marimba and four ...
Friedrich Robertovitch Lips [a] (born November 18, 1948) is a Russian bayanist and accordionist of German origin. Since 1989 he has been professor of the bayan accordion department at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, one of two music academies in Moscow .
Currie founded chamber ensemble The Colin Currie Group which specializes in the music of Steve Reich, [9] and in 2018, formed the Colin Currie Quartet to perform works for percussion quartet. [ 10 ] He won the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award in 2000, [ 11 ] was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist between 2003 and 2005 [ 12 ] and ...
Jazz drumming is the art of playing percussion (predominantly the drum kit, which includes a variety of drums and cymbals) in jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz fusion and 1980s-era Latin jazz. The techniques and instrumentation of this type of performance have evolved over several periods, influenced by jazz ...
Mitchell Thomas Peters (August 17, 1935 – October 28, 2017) was a principal timpanist and percussionist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. He composed well-known pieces for the marimba such as "Yellow After the Rain" and "Sea Refractions"; it is said that these works were composed because Peters felt that there was a lack of musically interesting material that would introduce his ...