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 ...

This concert could be as much fun to watch as it is to hear. Picture the soloist moving between two rather large wooden instruments — a marimba and a vibraphone. He’s using a mallet, but sometimes he ...

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 ...

For this month's Flint Symphony Orchestra concert, maestro and musical director Enrique Diemecke is taking the season's theme of "Around the World in 80 Musical Minutes" quite literally. That's ...

In Nashville, Tenn., the country music capital of the world, Michael Burritt, a Northwestern associate professor of percussion, added the sounds of marimba to the city’s guitar-rich past. Thursday ...

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 ...

A span of 9 feet may not seem so far, but try hitting two notes in rapid succession separated by that distance on a marimba, while wearing high heels. That’s just what marimba virtuoso She-e Wu was up ...