User:Mantrapercussion

Recognized by The New Yorker and TimeOut New York for presenting one of the ten best classical performances in 2012, Mantra Percussion is committed to substantially expanding the future of percussion repertoire. By commissioning and performing new, significant works for large percussion ensemble by both prominent and emerging composers, Mantra Percussion is committed to breathing new life into the art and engaging in cross-discipline collaborations to produce evening-length events that look toward a grander artistic vision.

Mantra Percussion has been featured at festivals, venues, and universities throughout North America including the Carlsbad New Music Festival, the Bowling Green New Music Festival, MIT with Bang on a Can All-Stars, Percussive Arts Society International Convention, X Avant Festival, New Music New College, Moving Sounds Festival, Ear Heart Music, Hi Fi Music Festival, and Make Music New York.

Mantra Percussion co-commissioned Michael Gordon's evening-length percussion sextet Timber and gave the work's United States premiere in October 2011 at Bowling Green State University in Ohio; they subsequently toured the work throughout North America. Mantra gave the New York premiere of Timber at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in December 2012.

Mantra Percussion has recorded Aaron Siegel's glockenspiel octet (with organ), Science Is Only A Sometimes Friend on Lockstep Records (one of Time Out New York's Ten Best Classical Albums of 2011), as well as Michael Fiday's Hands On! on Innova Records that the UK's Gramophone magazine praised as "a disc to treasure..."