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 ...

The marimba has an interesting history in which, oddly enough, Pennsylvania plays a major role. It is one of the oldest of musical instruments. There are records that the marimba existed in a much ...

Berlin-based marimba and vibraphone virtuoso Taiko Saito has been awarded the Jazzpreis Berlin 2023 from Der Rundfunk Berlin-rbbKultur and the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The ...

Stop! It’s hammer time at Symphony Hall BSO percussionist Will Hudgins is bringing down the hammer for Mahler’s 6th Symphony this weekend. Oh, and he also plays the marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, ...

Marimba player Yoshiko Tsurata. Photo / Derek Barrett, Whanganui Camera Club A partnership of marimba and vibraphone is coming to Whanganui. Chamber Music Whanganui is excited to present the band ...

Alexei Chizhik is the only musician in the world who plays the vibraphone with five sticks. The vibraphone is a percussion instrument that resembles a cross between the xylophone, the marimba, and the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is only since the middle of the 20th century that percussionists have taken off as the soloists in concertos ...

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is one of the most enchanting pieces of music ever written – and this arrangement for marimba and vibraphone just makes it even more magical Paul Dukas’s famous work was ...

Those who think of Bill Bruford only as art rock drummer for groups including Yes and King Crimson, fusion drummer with his late-1970s group Bruford, or even (finally, after all these years) a jazz ...

Why does baroque music sound so good on the marimba? Maybe it's because, as a percussion instrument, the marimba clearly articulates the precise subdivision of the beat in baroque music. Or it may be ...