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Evolution Duo Premiere Concert Oct 13 1pm Eastern Online

Published on October 12, 2011 in Marimba Performances. 0 Comments

The Evolution Duo Kickstarter project “Compose. Perform. Inspire” has completed and the premiere concert will be online tomorrow Oct 13 at 1pm Eastern. To listen to the great new duo works, head over to :

http://www.piteplay.se

The Facebook page for this event also has more information including the list of composers including:

Casey Cangelosi
Dave Hall
Baljinder Singh Sekhon
David Skidmore
Csaba Zoltan Marjan
Maria Finkelmeier
Jacob Remington

I am looking forward this concert and it is great that it is being posted online since they are in Sweden! Tweet #evolutionduopremiere during the event to join the discussion.

Jenny Klukken performing Sejourne marimba concerto with Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis

Published on October 6, 2011 in Marimba Performances. 0 Comments

Jenny Klukken will be performing Emmanuel Sejourne’s “Concerto for Marimba and Strings” on November 6th at 3pm with the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis. The performance will be held at Wayzata Community Church and is free and open to the public.

I will also be performing in this concert in the percussion session. Mark your calendars and come out and see a live marimba concerto being performed. It doesn’t happen that often!

Momoko Kamiya’s new marimba CD “Pieces of Peace”

Published on February 13, 2011 in Marimba Performances and Uncategorized. 2 Comments

Momoko Kamiya has released her new CD “Pieces of Peace”. You can read more about it at her Facebook announcement page.

I had the privilege of meeting Momoko Kamiya at the Marimba 2010 International Festival and Conference.  She premiered a piece called “Blossoms in the Sunlight” on the opening concert and was part of my previous blog post about the festival.

At minimum everyone should go spend $1 and buy that track right now. It is similar to “Land” and very lyrical and gorgeous. Another favorite is “HATO-OTO” which has a surprisingly jazzy section and is another one of my marimba solo favorites of recent years.

She teams up with Bodgan Bacanu on “Atom Hearts Duo” as well which I will be spending more time listening to this week.

Go support another marimbist and purchase these tracks today!

Groundlines performed by Ji Hye Jung

Published on February 9, 2011 in Marimba Performances. 0 Comments

“Groundlines” the new composition from John Serry for solo marimba is now available in its entirety at the Vic Firth web site. This recording was from PASIC this year and performed by Ji Hye Jung. Enjoy it!

Carol of the Bells arranged by Nathan Daughtrey

Published on January 3, 2011 in Marimba Performances. 0 Comments

My work schedule has kept me pretty busy this year so the holiday break allowed me to return to the marimba. Last week I performed “Carol of the Bells” arranged by Nathan Daughtrey.

This arrangement can be purchased as part of the Yuletide Marimba book from C. Alan Publications. The recording is available here on iTunes. I highly recommend adding the book and recordings to your marimba collection!

Over the next few years I will continue to perform them as they work very nicely in a church setting.

Below is a link to an excerpt of the performance. I hope you enjoy it!

Carol Of The Bells - Marimba

Birthday of A King/O Holy Night for Marimba and Piano

Published on December 28, 2010 in Marimba Performances. 0 Comments

On December 26th at Faith Lutheran Church my wife Heidi and I performed an arrangement of “Birthday of a King” and “O Holy Night”. Heidi had arranged this for piano and voice originally and we decided to perform it together this time with marimba and piano.

One of the members said of this performance “I am glad your marriage survived the key change”.

I hope you enjoy it.

Birthday Of A King - O Holy Night

John Serry “Groundlines” video posted on Vic Firth Website

Published on November 22, 2010 in Marimba Performances and PASIC. 0 Comments

The John Serry commissioning project that I was a part of has completed and the performance was at PASIC 2010. A video of one part of the piece is now up at the Vic Firth website.Ji Hye Jung is performing it in the middle of a larger video containing PASIC highlights.

Start here and then click on “Concert / Marching Highlights”. It is about 1/4 of the way into the video and labeled clearly.

Sponsoring 2 marimba compositions at PASIC 2010

Published on November 11, 2010 in Marimba Performances. 0 Comments

Later today at the annual PASIC 2010 festival there will be 2 new compositions that I am thrilled to be a sponsor for. At 3pm Woods Walker by Lynn Job will premiere and at 4pm Groundlines by John Serry will premiere! Sorry I cannot attend PASIC this year but I look forward to hearing about these pieces in the comments section!

Sight reading exercise at Marimbalogy.com

Published on October 6, 2010 in Marimba Performances. 1 Comment

First of all congratulations to the Minnesota Twins for making the playoffs and for getting home field advantage in the division series against the Yankees! This series will come down to which team has better pitching in my opinion and I am excited for it to start. Now on to the post.

I am very excited about the other marimba bloggers out there and one of them is Charlie over at http://www.marimbalogy.com. He has done some great episodes about the Burton grip recently as well as a number of other great episodes.

Charlie recently posted the sight reading of the week for marimba and I couldn’t resist trying it. Remember the purpose of this was to sight read this without any practice at all. Here is my performance:

So there are wrong notes and tempo issues but for the first attempt I was happy with the fact that it is mostly right. I was also able to think about the crescendo and some accents. I consider myself pretty bad at sight reading so I am happy for the challenge. Thanks again to Charlie for writing this piece and posting it!

February Marimba Recitals

Published on February 6, 2010 in Marimba Performances. 0 Comments

There are a number of marimbists who are doing recitals around the country. I wanted to list out a few of them that I know about in order to promote the marimba to a larger audience.

Kyle Maxwell-Doherty gave a graduate recital at the Music Building, Crowder Hall in The University Of Arizona. The recital occurred on February 1, 2010 at 7:30pm. For more information visit the campus events page. The marimba piece is Kevin Puts “Canyon”.

Cat Boyd will present a junior recital later today which I hope will feature “Marimba For An Angel” by Orlando Cotto. It will be performed tonight at 8:00pm at the Boston Conservatory. For more information visit her Facebook event page.

Marco Schirripa will perform his second junior recital February 19, 2010 at 7:00pm in Nabenhauer Recital Room at Ithica College. This one will be with only 1 month of preparation because that is how he “rolls”.

Kendall Guischard will present a graduate recital at Duncan Recital Hall in Morehead State University Wednesday February 24, 2010 at 8:00pm. For more information visit his Facebook event page.

Let me know if there are more recitals and I will be sure to help promote them!