Praised by the New York Times for his ?understated but unmistakable virtuosity? along
with a ?winning combination of gentleness and fluidity,? Svet Stoyanov is Professor and Director
of Percussion at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami.
Mr. Stoyanov is a winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition in New
York City. This is also where he made his debut at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall as a cosoloist,
premiering the Phillip Glass Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra. Svet
Stoyanov has performed as a soloist with the Chicago, Seattle, American and Annapolis
Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Bulgarian Radio Orchestra, to name a few. Highlights in his
festival appearances include the The Ravinia Festival, Emilia Romagna, Made in America,
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, River to River Festival, Look and Listen, PAS International
Conventions. Solo performances include Carnegie Hall?s Isaac Stern Auditorium and Weill Hall,
Merkin Hall, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Benaroya Hall, Orange County Performing Arts
Center, Avery Fisher Hall, and The Kennedy Center.
Svet Stoyanov?s debut CD ?Percussive Counterpoint? was released in 2009 to great
acclaim from both composers featured on the disk as well as music critics. It has been aired on the
radio throughout the USA, as well as abroad. Featured works include a transcription of Steve
Reich?s Electric Counterpoint, a new recording of Alejandro Vi?ao's Khan Variations, Eric
Sammut's Four Rotations and a video performance of Thierry de Mey?s Musique de Tables - a
theatrical work ?Ballet? for 3 sets of hands (enhanced CD feature).
A strong advocate for new music, Svet Stoyanov has commissioned and premiered dozens
of works. Some upcoming projects include Six Songs of E.E. Cummings for soprano and marimba
by Robert Xavier Rodriguez, Prelude; Invention; Suspension for saxophone quartet, percussion,
double bass and drumset by Gary Lindsey, percussion duo work by Martin Bresnick, two piano/
two percussion piece by Mark Dancigers, as well as a vibraphone solo work by Bruce Adolphe.
A passionate educator, Svet Stoyanov has presented numerous clinics throughout Europe
and USA. Most recently he was invited to join the faculty of International Katarzyna Mycka
Marimba Academy (2009) in Frankfurt, and has been featured as an associate faculty member at
the Nancy Zeltsman's Marimba Festival (2007).
Mr. Stoyanov chooses the quality of Pearl/Adams Percussion Instruments, Vic Firth mallets
and sticks, as well as Remo drumheads.

Timberline Players is a flute/percussion duo located in Colorado Springs, CO. Please check out our latest CD titled Colors of Christmas featuring unique arrangements for marimba, flute, cello, bass, and percussion.

The official website of composer/percussionist Christopher Swist. This site contains a comprehensive music page with audio examples, programs notes and links to publishers. Swist's compositions are performed worldwide and published through Marimba Productions in the U.S. and Edition Svitzer in Europe. Christopher is currently teaching composition, percussion and music theory at Keene State College in New Hampshire.

Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic (Neboysha Yovan Chivkovich b.1962) is undoubtedly one of the most eminent and most interesting marimba and percussion soloists currently working in Europe, not least because of his captivating performance and powerful emotional expression, which make his concerts an outstanding experience. His consistent duality, his untiring work - both as composer and performer - account for his unique artistic personality.
Zivkovic completed his master's degrees in composition, music theory and percussion in Germany. His concert tours have taken him through Germany, Austria, Belgium, Poland, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Greece, Czechia and repeatedly to the USA.
Contemporary music is an important part of Zivkovic's repertoire, and many composers have written works dedicated to him. His own music can best be described as

Born from a solid friendship and a common vision of music, Tchiki Duo unites two percusionnists with the same wish to transcend themselves.
They are exploring a catalogue of virtuosity stamped with an organic temperament.

The duo offers a music full of energy and a rythmical concert thanks to two stage techniciens integrated to the play.
Born of a classical channel, Tchiki Duo take up a challenge to be more than a concert, a full-sight spectacle

Peter Sadlo has been hailed by critics as one of the greatest percussionist of the century.
He began to learn to play when only 5 and started to study at the age of twelve. His exceptional talent has always been recognised by his teachers. The most eminent of these was Siegfried Fink, in whose master classes in W・zburg Sadlo obtained his diploma. But his playing of the timpani is particularly marked by the influence of Sergiu Celibidache.
Sadlo won many of the chief percussion prizes while a student, including the prestigious first prizes at the Geneva Competition and ARD Competition in Munich. He has been far more successful than anyone else in his field. He has received many accolades, but his versatile talent is most clearly proved by the number and variety of the engagements he has been asked to take on.
He was the solo percussionist of the Munich Philharmonic and a teacher and also directs professional chamber groups. Hardly surprising, he is a popular guest performer at music festivals and with various distinguished orchestras. His musical flair is unerring and his dexterity on all kinds of instruments quite dazzling. These have earned him great acclaim from the general public and the critics, and he is now in great demand throughout the world.
Peter Sadlo has an exclusive contract with Koch Schwann. For this CD Percussion in Concert he has been awarded the Echo Prize 1998. Deutsche Grammophon released the Bartok Sonata for two pianos and percussion with Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire and Edgar Guggeis.

Kai Stensgaard was among the first Scandinavian musicians to approach the marimba as a serious solo instrument. Throughout the last 15 years he has toured extensively and given more than 3.000 concerts, masterclasses and clinics in various venues in Northern Europa, Mexico, Puerto Rico, U.S.A. and Japan along with numerous radio and television broadcasts. He was recognized in 1989 as the first recipient of the North Jutland Music Award. He has produced several CDs displaying the marimba's myriad of textures. Kai Stensgaard is a specialist on six mallets playing, he did several compositions and arrangements for six mallets. In 2005 he published his new concerto for marimba & Symphony Orchestra "Concierto Mexicano". The concerto is performed with 2, 4 and 6 mallets (optional 4 mallets) For more informations go to www.marimba.dk (added 2000.11.6)

Gordon Stout is one of the most prominant marimbist of our time and also known as the composer of Two Mexican Dances. Numerous published compositions (Keyboard Percussion Publications, www.gordonstout.net) are present. He is a professor, percussion; chair, Department of Performance Studies at the School of Music of Ithca College. As a Lecturer-recitalist, Percussive Arts Society, he appearing at international conventions.

He studied with James Salmon, John Beck, percussion; Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, composition. He has M.M., B.M., performer's certificate, Eastman School of Music.

Formerly, faculty, St. Mary's College in Maryland; music director, Tidewater Music Festival. Also, he is a founding member, Eastman Marimba Band; member, Wilder Duo, with Bob Levy, trumpet.

Numerous recordings for Studio 4, Mercury Golden Imports, Crystal Records, Golden Crest Records, including solo albums, and with Brian Bowman, David Craighead, Eastman Marimba Band, Michael Burritt. gstout@ithaca.edu
. (Added 1997.6.12, Updated 1999.4.14)

Junko Sakimura started studying Marimba with Akiko Suzuki at the age of 7. She subsequently graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo (percussion). Her teachers includes Tomoko Kusakari, Shin'ichi Ueno, Tomoyuki Okada. Studied Cimbalom with Yasuko Kano.

Main Performing Activity

* Cimbalom
o Kurtag ...concertante...(Japanese premiere) with Gert Albrecht (conductor) and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra at the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall (2004) [Tokyo, Japan]
o Seventh World Cimbalom Congress (2003) [Appenzell, Switzerland]
o Kurtag: ...quasi una fantasia... with Christian Armink (conductor) and the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra at the Suntory Hall. (2003) [Tokyo, Japan]
o Kodaly: Hary Janos with Laurence Foster (conductor) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra at the Suntory Hall, Tokyo. (2002) [Tokyo, Japan]
o Dutilleux "L'arbre des Songes " by Tokyo Philharmony Orchestra at the Suntory Hall and the Orchard Hall (2001) [Tokyo, Japan]
o Andriesen: De Stijl with Tatsunori Numajiri (conductor) and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra at Tokyo Operacity Concert Hall (2000) [Tokyo, Japan]
o Kodaly: Hary Janos with Kotaro Sato (conductor) and Kanagawa Philharmony Orchestra. This concert was televised throughout Japan by NHK TV. (1999) [Yokohama, Japan]
o Kodaly: Hary Janos with Masahiro Izaki (conductor) and Tochigiken Symphony Orchestra [Ibaraki, Japan]
o Third World Cimbalom Congress (1995)[Bratislava, Slovakia]
+ as the Japanese delegate and reported on Pravda.
o Suntory Summer Special
+ <Music of the 20th Century> (1991) [Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan]
o Cimbalom Joint Recital（1990）[Ongaku no Tomo Hall, Tokyo, Japan]

* Marimba
o NHK FM Recital (1989)
o Marimba Trio with Tokyo Symphony Orchestra (1990) [Orchard Hall, Tokyo]
o Radio Western International FM Recital (1993) [Canada]
o Recital: <Marimba Alive! > (1994) [von Kuster Hall, London, Canada]
o Cross Culture '94 (1994) [Eolian Hall, London, Canada]
o Recital: <Marimba Alive! 2> (1997.7.5) Kunitachi Geijutu Sho Hall, Tokyo]
o Recital: <Marimba Alive! 3> (1997.12.27) [Kunitachi Geijutu Sho Hall, Tokyo]

* Piano
o Suntory Summer Special
+ <Music of the 20th Century>（1991) [Suntory Hall]

Sylvie Zakarian was born in Varna, Bulgaria, to Armenian parents in 1971. At the age of four, she began to study music and piano. She joined the Secondary Music School in Varna, choosing percussion as an exciting direction to broaden her musical range. During her nine years there, she won three first prizes at national and international competitions and performed in many concerts and solo recitals.



Ms. Zakarian's interest in contemporary music for solo percussion and modern chamber groups springs from an early age. In 1989, after winning first prize in the