A profile of Sandbox Percussion, winner of a 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant Award. After meeting in graduate school in 2011, members Terry Sweeney, Jonny Allen, Victor Caccese, and Ian Rosenbaum ...

If you ask today’s children to name a musical instrument they would like to study, many of them would surely choose the piano, guitar or even drums. Those who are musically inclined might even opt for ...

Chances are, you’ve never heard four marimbas in harmony live before. Or at all. Here’s your opportunity when the Heartland Marimba Quartet performs at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24 at Imago in Elgin, hosted by ...

Eric Schweikert needed only a few seconds Sunday afternoon to demonstrate a xylophone warm-up exercise to the young musicians seated on a Purdue University Fort Wayne stage, but he cautioned them from ...

Hailing from Africa and now a staple of modern orchestral music and jazz, the marimba is the bigger, deeper brother of the xylophone. A large tuned percussion instrument, it consists of two rows of ...

After meeting in graduate school in 2011, members Terry Sweeney, Jonny Allen, Victor Caccese, and Ian Rosenbaum created Sandbox Percussion. The chamber percussion group chose their name as a reference ...