Amphion will be giving a free concert on Thursday April 12th at 8:30 PM in Lecture Hall RM 221 at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Noel Fine Arts Center.  Also, Peter Zlotnick will be giving a timpani clinic earlier in the day at 5:00 PM in RM 240.  Both events are completely open to the public.  Come enjoy the music of Radiohead, Steve Reich, György Ligeti, David Hollinden, Peter Klatzow, Ivan Treviño, Sean Connors, and more!

Here's a link to a video of  Dissolve, Compose: Release  from this past January:
http://vimeo.com/22531277
Dissolve, Compose: Release was a collaboration between Amphion, composer Jennifer Bellor, and the Hot Glass Studio at the Rochester Institute of Technology.  Graduate students at R.I.T. wrote and performed a theatrical hot glass performance, to which Jennifer Bellor composed the compositional seeds that Amphion improvised upon.  The result was a unique abstract narrative that touched upon themes of creation and elemental forces of nature.    Big thanks to Karen Donnellan for posting the video!

Thanks to everyone who came out to our concert this weekend! We had a great time playing in downtown Greensboro, NC.
Pictures from the show are available on our Facebook page. 
Stay tuned for more news, including a follow up on last January's Hot Glass Peformance.

Our next peformance is set for Friday, November 4 in Greensboro, NC!
We'll be playing at Triad Stage in the UpStage Cabaret space. The concert is part of their Listening Room series.
This also the first concert ever in the Greensboro Symphony's new contemporary music series, ON EDGE!
Triad Stage is located on Elm Street in downtown Greensboro. It's the First Friday in November, which means there will be a lot of people out and about checking out shops, galleries, …and concerts!
Facebook event page here!

Congratulations to our friend Ivan Treviño for winning the 2011 PAS composition competition with his beautiful new marimba quartet  "Bloom".  We're looking forward to playing his duo "Into the Air" all over the country this seaon!  http://www.pas.org/news/11-08-27/PAS_Announces_the_2011_Composition_Contest_Winners.aspx

Just received the score for Carrie Magin's marimba duo Spilberk and we're excited to start working on it and some other new rep for the '11-'12 concert season.  Stay tuned to see some of the concert programs that we'll be offering!

Some final versions of tunes from our January recording session are up in the Multimedia > Audio section.  Look for Jamie Jordan singing Limit to Your Love by Feist and Surface Tension by David Hollinden.  Thanks to Rich Wattie our fearless sound engineer.

Thanks to Bill Quick, we've received some photos of our performance at the Central NY Day of Percussion.  Check out the full album in the "Photos" section under the heading Multimedia.

This past weekend, Amphion performed on the Central New York Day of Percussion! Big thanks to everyone who made this day possible, especially Dr. Robert Bridge and Onondaga Community College. Major thanks to Jamie Jordan for going the extra mile to make this performance extra special!
The day also featured Peter Zlotnick giving a presentation on timpani and Sean Connors conducting the Onondaga Community College Percussion Ensemble.
Were you there? Give us feedback at amphionpercussion@gmail.com, write on our facebook wall, or write something on the Central NY Day of Percussion facebook page.

Amphion has been accepted as semi-finalists at the 3rd annual Southern California Marimba competition on May 28, 2011 at California State University, Long Beach. 
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Amphion will be playing on the Central New York Day of Percussion at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse on April 30th, 2011!

The first drafts of our friend Tomek Arnold's piece for soprano, vibraphone, and marimba look great!  No premiere date as of yet, but we plan to once again collaborate with talented soprano Jamie Jordan. By the way, check out Tomek's new CD on itunes, CD baby, Amazon, etc.  Here's a nice promo video for it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISh2bw4pURE

Recording session in the bag!  Amphion owes a giant THANK YOU to: Rich Wattie, our sound engineer and fearless leader in the booth; Jamie Jordan, for elevating the quality of our music with her voice, and Megan Arns and Amy Garapic for helping out throughout the night and telling us, "no, do it again".  We'll let you know when the finalized version of the tracks we recorded are up on the website.  

Dissolve, Compose: Release was a success!  Our thanks to Karen Donnellan and Mary Catherine Richardson at the Rochester Institute of Technology Glass Department for spearheading the entire project and of course to Jennifer Bellor for composing such inspiring music.  Sean is underway learning Jen's latest piece for solo marimba Heat, from which the material for Dissolve, Compose: Release was drawn.

Rehearsals for "Dissolve, Compose: Release" 
are under way!  Check out the flier...

Amphion will be collaborating with composer Jennifer Bellor and the Rochester Institute of Technology's College of Imaging Art and Science in a program entitled "Dissolve, Compose: Release"  on Friday, January 14th at RIT's Hot Glass Workshop, Building 7a (booth).   The performance will investigate the choreographic and narrative possibilities of glass blowing presented as an abstract with hot glass demonstration, lighting design, video imagery, and live music provided by Amphion.