Sandbox Percussion’s multiple versions of Jason Treuting’s ‘extremes’ are an awesome example of how a great composition can renew itself with each interpretation.
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 thrilled to be part of the faculty at Mannes School of Music and to serve as an Ensemble-in-Residence at The New School, continuing our work with the students and community of Mannes.
The Sandbox Percussion Creator Mentorship Program is a multi-month commissioning and collaborative residency that pairs emerging composers closely with the percussion quartet to cultivate deep artistic relationships and premiere new works.
Program · The New School · 2026–27 Applications Closed
Sandbox Percussion Seminar
In this intensive experience, participants will learn, rehearse, and perform alongside Sandbox Percussion through daily rehearsals, coachings, and workshops.
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance Andrew Cyr, conductor; Erik Hall; Metropolis Ensemble; Sandbox Percussion
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella Jonny Allen, Erik Hall, David Leon & Ben Wallace, arrangers
Best Engineered Album, Classical Erik Hall & Mike Tierney, engineers; Warren Defever, mastering engineer
“This new version, for mallet instruments, winds, strings and piano, undulates with delicate ripples of sound that crest in large waves only to recede and rise again. It’s music to get lost in.”
Simeon ten Holt's landmark minimalist opus Canto Ostinato has a known magnetism — its captivating harmony and winding, open-form structure an adventurous enterprise for any like-minded players who embark down its path.
Metropolis Ensemble, pianist Erik Hall, and Sandbox Percussion expand ten Holt's piano manuscript into a large chamber arrangement for mallet percussion, woodwinds, strings, and piano — a hypnotic, ever-shifting journey through its looping cells.
