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| Hailed by the New York Times as "...finely polished...a fresh source of energy," and by Time Out New York as "forward thinking," 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 cross-discipline collaborations to produce evening-length events that look toward a grander artistic vision. Formed in 2007, Mantra Percussion has been featured at festivals and music series throughout the country including Moving Sounds Festival, Ear Heart Music Festival, F(x) Miami Marathon, Hi Fi Music Festival, Music on MacDougal Series, and Make Music New York. The group has performed in some of the leading contemporary music spaces in New York City including Le Possioun Rouge, The Tank, and the Tenri Cultural Institute. Mantra's 2010 collaboration with the Dither Guitar Quartet yielded 3 new works for combined electric guitar quartet and percussion quartet with music written by Philip Schuessler, Daniel Wohl, and Eric Km Clark. Recently, Mantra Percussion commissioned renowned composer Michael Gordon along with Slagwerkgroep Den Haag, and the Dutch Dance company Club Guy and Roni (with support from the Queens Council on the Arts and the Nief-Norf Project) to write an evening-length percussion sextet. Mantra will give the work's United States premiere on October 14, 2011 at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Mantra has recorded Aaron Siegel's glockenspiel octet (with organ),Science Is Only A Sometimes Friend on Lockstep Records, as well as Michael Fiday's Hands On on Innova Records that the UK's Grammaphone magazine recently praised as "a disc to treasure..."
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