Sandbox Percussion gave its first TED Talk, bringing its innovative approach to percussion, collaboration, and contemporary performance to a global audience.
Sandbox Percussion’s album Don’t Look Down, featuring music by Christopher Cerrone, won the GRAMMY® Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical at the 68th Annual GRAMMY Awards.
Sandbox Percussion made its NPR Tiny Desk debut with music by Andy Akiho and Viet Cuong, showcasing the ensemble’s inventive and collaborative approach to percussion performance.
The GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble Sandbox Percussion, a quartet of established leaders in contemporary art music and percussion, received a 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant on March 20, 2024.
Multi-GRAMMY® nominee-Christopher Cerrone’s new album is a decade-long journey through sound, collaboration, and innovation. From the first sketches of Goldbeater’s Skin in 2015 to the final touches on Ode To Joy in 2023, these works reflect his deep connection and friendship with Sandbox Percussion.
Critically-acclaimed composer Andy Akiho and Sandbox Percussion announce the release of Akiho’s “Seven Pillars,” a boldly genre-defying audio and video collaboration for percussion quartet.
The New York-based ensemble Sandbox Percussion releases its debut album, And That One Too (Coviello Classics) on digital retailers Friday, February 28, 2020.
‘Bathymetry’ is an album of music for percussion and analog synthesizer by composer, Matt McBane and Sandbox Percussion, to be released on Cantaloupe Music on November 4, 2022.
An innovative piece for percussion quartet, Wilderness seamlessly fuses the raw impact of live percussion instruments with electronic manipulations in real time.
Sandbox Percussion serves on the faculty of the Peabody Institute Percussion Department, bringing the ensemble’s internationally recognized expertise in contemporary performance, collaboration, and new music to one of the nation’s leading conservatories.
We are honored to join The New School College of Performing Arts as Ensemble-in-Residence and very excited to bring our annual Summer Seminar to Mannes. It is a great privilege to work with such talented students as part of The New School’s prestigious faculty at our home base – New York City.
Sandbox is thrilled to announce the launch of our Creator Mentorship Program this year! Applications are closed. Thank you for your interest in the Creator Mentorship Program!
In this intensive experience, participants will learn, rehearse, and perform alongside Sandbox Percussion through daily rehearsals, coachings, and workshops.
The GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble Sandbox Percussion, a quartet of established leaders in contemporary art music and percussion, received a 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant on March 20, 2024. The awards ceremony took place in the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WQXR studios, where Sandbox Percussion and four other artists were announced as this year’s recipients of the career-advancing grant, which the Avery Fisher Artist Program awards every year to no more than five artists. The $25,000 grant provides professional assistance and recognizes instrumental artists who the program believes have great potential for major careers in classical music.
“We are deeply honored by this award from the distinguished Avery Fisher Artist Program,”
said percussionist Ian Rosenbaum, who co-founded Sandbox Percussion in 2011 with fellow members Jonathan Allen, Victor Caccese, and Terry Sweeney through a mutual love of chamber music and contemporary composition. They are now an internationally renowned new-music quartet and have become the first percussion ensemble to receive the prestigious award.
“We have looked up to many of the previous recipients and been inspired by them for years,” added Rosenbaum. “It’s exciting to become part of the celebrated history of this program.”
Deborah Borda, the Avery Fisher Artist Program Chair, and Nancy Fisher, daughter of the late Avery and Janet Fisher, presented the awards at the ceremony, which coincided with the program’s 50th anniversary. The annual ceremony includes a short performance by each selected artist and a professional recording.
Sandbox Percussion gave its first TED Talk, bringing its innovative approach to percussion, collaboration, and contemporary performance to a global audience.
Sandbox Percussion’s album Don’t Look Down, featuring music by Christopher Cerrone, won the GRAMMY® Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical at the 68th Annual GRAMMY Awards.
Sandbox Percussion made its NPR Tiny Desk debut with music by Andy Akiho and Viet Cuong, showcasing the ensemble’s inventive and collaborative approach to percussion performance.
