Arkadiusz Katny - composer and marimbist's website! Check out his new compositions, concerts and more!

"I am kind of finder... but that kind of finder which knows what he is looking for... and why. I find every day, step by step. I observe the World. I am full of inspirations. I believe in sound as an energy, wave, matter, shape, color... "
- Arkadiusz Kątny (2010)

"Kątny's music is unlike any music I have encountered to date. His invigorating creations illuminate ones sense of sound and augments musical imagination. Arkadiusz's musical trajectory parallels that of a Frost poem; reflecting a sense of darkness, empathy, and warmth, and is what reminds us of what it means to be alive!"
- Patrick Francis Frenking (2010)

"18 year old, Arkadiusz Kątny is an exciting young marimbist, full of fire and warmth. He has a firm sense of style, clearly exhibited in Kopetzki's Kaskada. His rendition of Abe's Wind in the Bamboo Grove was breathtaking in its intensity and clarity."
- Classical Marimba League (2008)

Kuniko+Movses | Marimba & Violin Duo
Kuniko and Movses Pogossian (vl.) will perform marimba & violin duo concerts in US & Japan in Nov. 2010.
Back in 2008 at Monday Evening Concerts (MEC) in LA we performed Keiko Harada?s Bone#, a very difficult piece, and Movses played expressively and perfectly. Since then we?ve been talking about doing duo again.
The program includes 3 newly commissioned pieces for violin and marimba (percussions) by Vatche Sharafyan & Artur Avanesov from Armenia and Miyuki Ito from Japan.
Also the performance includes a few pieces from beautiful ?Armenian Song? by Komitas, etc..

Dates & Venues
Sun, Oct 31st, Zipper Music Hall, Los Angeles, CA ? Dilijian Chamber Music Series
Sat, Nov 4th, Munetsugu Hall, Nagoya, Japan - http://www.munetsuguhall.com/
Thu, Nov 11th, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan - http://www.bankart1929.com/

Tickets are available through ticket@kuniko-kato.net
General Inquiries: info@kuniko-kato.net
The concerts in Japan are co-presented by Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Japan.
Please see the site for details.
http://www.kuniko-kato.net/concert/concerts-en.html
ticket@kuniko-kato.netinfo@kuniko-kato.net

Personal Blog in spanish about Percussion in general. You can found there stories, my free music-mp3-pdf and lessons and my thinking about diferents questions in relation with percussion and Music.
38 years of professional teaching and playing in Cuba and Spain.

Since a very young age Ramon Lormans was interested in music. Aged 13 he was asked to join the Young Talent class of the Conservatory of Tilburg. There he took lessons with Willy Goudswaard. After three years of bachelor studies with Arnold Marinissen and Peter de Vries at the Conservatory of Tilburg Ramon Lormans studied at the Amsterdam conservatory where he finished his bachelor, and is now last year Master student with Jan Pustjens, Nick Woud, Victor Oskam, Peter Prommel, Gustavo Gimeno, Arnold Marinissen and Bart Schneemann.
In 2004 Ramon Lormans won the finals of the Princess Christina competition, open for all instruments. There he was awarded with a concert in Carnegie Hall - New York, a solo concert with The Brabants Orchestra, a live radio performance on World radio Netherlands with cd recording, and a concert in Dr. Anton Phillips zaal The Hague with live cd recording. In September 2006 Ramon Lormans won the third prize in the Tromp International Music competition for percussion solo. Ramon Lormans has been playing solo recitals and concerts in Netherlands and abroad, such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall New York (USA), Vredenburg Utrecht, Beurs van Berlage Amsterdam, Frits Phillips Eindhoven, Vrijthof Maastricht, Nieuwe Kerk Den Haag, Dr. Anton Phillipszaal Den Haag, De Toonzaal Den Bosch, Philharmonie Haarlem, Muziekgebouw aan het IJ Amsterdam, Percumania Percussion festival Paris (Fr), Orpheus festival for modern music (Be), Grachtenfestival (NL), Traces of rhythm festival (NL), Marimba days Detmold (De), Marimba festival Linz (Au), Donaueschinger musiktage (De), Gaudeamus modern Music week (NL).

Ramon Lormans founded the Duo Sax & Stix with Saxophone player Eva van Grinsven. The duo is searching for new repertoire and broad combinations for this setting. In 2007 Duo Sax & Stix won the National Chamber music Competition Almere - Netherlands. And in March 2008 they won the Vriendenkrans Competition by the Concertgebouw and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and were awarded by the Bernard Haitink foundation prize.

In the seasons 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 Ramon will be situated as Academic Percussionist with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

From September 2008 Ramon Lormans is associated as Professor of Marimba next to Peter Prommel at the Amsterdam Conservatory.

He also has his own young talent class with seven young students who form the Percussion Friends group, which is directed by him.

Ramon Lormans is a performing artist for Adams musical instruments and plays a 5.0 octave Artist classic marimba.

Momoko KAMIYA is a graduate of Juliard Music School and the winner of the 1995 Luxemburg International Percussion Competition, Marimba section.
Since 1990, she is giving the recital series "Kamiya Momoko Marimba Recital - Oto * Sorekara (Sound - and then...)". She has also played with Yomiuri Nihon Symphony Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmony Orchestra, etc. Has appeard in such programs like "NHK FM Recital", "Best of Classics (NHK FM)" etc. Her CD includes "Childrens of Dyonisis (Dyonisia)", "Marimba Coctail (Phillips)", "Arabesque (Phillips)". She is currently actively playing mainly as solo marimbist.
Apart from giving performances, she also teaches at Senzoku Gakuen University, Okinawa Kenritsu Geijutsu University, Aichi Kenritsu Geijutsu University. (Last Modified 1998.5.6)

Born on 16 November 1957, Rich O'Meara is fluent in a wide variety of musical styles. As a member of One Earth Percussion Theatre, with Joseph McIntyre and Michael Wingo, he took part in innovative multi-media performances. He has performed with the Contemporary Music Forum, the Lenox Ensemble, and the New York based Sky Music. He was featured as marimba soloist with the Women Composers Orchestra and under the direction of Michel Camilo, was a guest artist at the 1998 Latin-Caribbean Festival at the Kennedy Center. With the new music ensemble Amaranth, he premiered Puzzle Piece for three marimbas. He has composed many works for percussion and small ensemble, some of which are published by Music for Percussion and Marimba Productions. His piece for solo marimba, Restless, was required repertoire for the 48th International Competition in Geneva, Switzerland. He took second place in the 1999 Percussive Arts Society Percussion Composition Contest with looking at "r", for two marimbas. His compositions can be heard on the Audite Schallplatten and the Koch Discover International record labels. He has also spent time playing jazz on vibes, marimba, and MIDI percussion with the Bruce Middle Group and Millennium; and alternative rock as drummer for Kismet. He has served as part time music faculty at Goucher College and the Levine School of Music. He studied percussion with Randy Eyles, Gar Whaley, Ron Barnett, and Leigh Howard Stevens and received a Bachelor of Music in percussion performance from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. (Added May 6, 2001)

Before coming to America Jeannine performed as a solo artist at the Konzervatorium Z

Kazuko KISHIDA is an internationally well known Solo Marimba & Percussion Player. = Graduated Master course of Tokyo University of Arts. Many successful concerts at New York Carnegie Hall, Vienna = Musikverein Sall, Beijing Concert Hall. (Last Modified 1997.6.20)

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began his musical studies in Percussion Instruments at the N. Piccinni Conservatory in Bari, where he graduated summa cum laude with Mr. Forestiere in 1996. In the same year he was admitted as an ordinary student at the Universit

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