This Danish duo are not only for marimba but also all ground percussion. Uffe Savery and Morten Friis, they can perform Marimba Spritual just by themselves...2 people! It is called Marimaba Spritual 2 and recorded on their CD. Mostly they transcribe piano music by Bach, Chopin or Ravel for 2 marimbas. Safri version of Alborada del gracioso by Ravel is published from Studio 4 Production, and available their CDs in stores in Japan. (Added 1997.6.12)

国立音楽大学打楽器科卒業。マリンバを鈴木明子、草刈とも子、上野信一、岡田知之の各氏に師事。ツィンバロンを加納靖子氏に師事。 東京都交響楽団など、多数のオーケストラと共演。

主な演奏活動
マリンバ
リサイタル『Marimba Alive! 3』（1997.12.27）[国立芸術小ホール]
リサイタル『Marimba Alive! 2』（1997.7.5）[国立芸術小ホール]
クロスカルチャー '94 出演 (1994) [Eolian Hall, London, Canada]
リサイタル『Marimba Alive! 』（1994）[von Kuster Hall, London, Canada]
Radio Western International FM リサイタル（1993）[カナダ にて]
東京交響楽団とマリンバトリオで共演（1990）[オーチャード・ホール]
NHK FMリサイタル（1989）

ツィンバロン (ツィンバロム, チンバロン)
第428回 読売日本交響楽団　定期演奏会 クルターク コンチェルタンテ （日本初演）ゲルト・アルブレヒト指揮
第359回　新日本フィルハーモニー交響楽団定期演奏会で、クリスティアン・アルミンク氏指揮で、クルターク「...quasi una fantasia... op.27」を演奏 (2003/10/2)
第544回　東京都交響楽団定期演奏会で、ローレンス・フォスター氏指揮でコダーイ「ハーリ・ヤノーシュ」を演奏 (2002/2/8)
東京フィルハーモニー交響楽団で、パスカル・ヴェロ氏指揮の、Dutilleux 「夢の木」 の演奏のCimbalomパートを担当（2001/12/7）
東京オペラシティ主催「動と静-アンドリーセン２つの貌」（沼尻竜典 氏 指揮　東京交響楽団）で、「De Stijl （時間）」を演奏
佐藤功太郎氏 指揮　神奈川フィルハーモニー管弦楽団と、コダーイ「ハーリ・ヤノーシュ」を演奏。NHK教育テレビで全国放映 (1999)
井崎正浩 氏 指揮　栃木県交響楽団 と コダーイ「ハーリ・ヤノーシュ」 を演奏 (1996)
第３回世界ツィンバロン・コングレス(1995) [Bratislava, Slovakia]日本代表として参加。スロバキアテレビに出演。Pravda 等に取り上げられた。
サントリー・サマー・スペシャル
『20世紀の音楽』（1991）[サントリーホール]
ツインバロム・ジョイントリサイタル（1990）[音楽の友ホール]

ピアノ
サントリー・サマー・スペシャル
『20世紀の音楽』（1991）[サントリーホール]

A composer and a marimba player. Studied marimba under Keiko Abe and the composition under Akira Miyoshi. Winner of the 1980 PAS International Composition Competition. ALM Records publishes his CDs and Zen-on publishes his music.
(Modified 2002.7.20)

Yuko is an active performer based in Boston, MA, having wide range of repertoire of marimba, percussion literatures.
As a committed contemporary musician, Yuko takes an active interest in commissioning new music aiming to discover and collaborate with composers.
She has commissioned and premiered solo marimba and chamber works by numerous composers such as Dana Brayton, Pius Cheung, Lachlan Fife, Alfred Marra, Shawn Michalek, Lior Navok, Cayenna Ponchione, Rudolf Rojahn, Akie Takada.
As she continues to support new music literatures, she recently founded composition competitions for solo marimba, and percussion trio which she has recently formed and scheduled a number of commissions and concerts.

She also performs frequently as an entertainment musician around Boston area.
She is a contracted musician at Sutton Entertainment Services, and performing local schools, hospitals, private parties, churches, also Harvard Club, and Fenway Park.

She has been invited to Music Festivals including: KoSA X ( '05), SMARTS Institute ( '05),is Hih and Zeltsman Marimba Festival ( '04).
She also has performed with orchestras and bands including Rhythmusa with Dave Samuels as a part of Berklee Percussion Festival Concerts ( '05), Binghamton Community Orchestra (NY), Middlesex Concert Band (MA), also she was one of soloists for The Creation by Cayenna Ponchione performed at PASIC '04.

A recipient of several awards including: Winner of the Aspen Music Festival and School Solo Competition (2000), Artists prize at Naniwa Arts Foundation Festival (1999), and Winner of Graduation Solo Competition at Osaka College of Music (1999).
She was also a semi-finalist in the World Marimba Competition in Stuttgart (2002) and semi-finalist in International Marimba Competition Belgium (2004).

Ms. Yoshikawa began her musical training starting with piano at age of three, percussion at nine, marimba at fifteen.
She holds B.M. in percussion performance from Osaka College of Music in Japan, and M.M. in marimba performance from The Boston Conservatory where she studied with world-renowned marimbist Nancy Zeltsman and principal percussionist at Boston Pops, Pat Hollenbeck.

Yuko endorses Marimba One instrument.

Entered Kunitachi College of Music in 1988. Received scholarship from "Yasuda Seimei - Quality of Life Zaidan". On graduation, she received prestigeous "Takeoka Prize". Received Masters degree from the College in 1994.
She studied percussion with Tomoyuki Okada, marimba with Junko Shibata and Akiko Suzuki, Timpani with Peter Sonderman.
Received "Award of Excellence" at the 8th Percussion Rookie's Concert. Received the Gran Prix on the 10th Nihon Kan-dagakki Concours (Japan Brass and Percussion Competition) Percussion division. Gave concerts in Berlin, Sofia, Taipei, Seoul, Denmark etc. as a member of the "Percussion Ensemble OKADA of Japan".
In 1994, she gave the "Saito Mie Percussion Recital - Sound Pazzle -", and subsequently, "Saito Mie Marimba Concert - Wind from the Galia - ", etc. Also appeared in "Marimba Alive! vol.3" with Junko Sakimura.
Currently, actively playing as a solo marimbist as well as an ensemble member in chamber music and orchestra. Member of the Miracle Percussion Ensemble. (Last Modified 1998.5.6)

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.

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Mark Shelton is a freelance percussionist living in the Dallas, TX area. He performs on the marimba as part of his solo percussion program for students. Mark is on the Young Audiences rosters in Dallas, Houston, and Beaumont, Texas. Before moving to Texas, Mark served as Visiting Artist at Wayne Community College in North Carolina.
In addition to his work as a soloist, he leads the New Acoustic / World Music ensemble, Tin Roof Tango, and is percussionist with the Calvary Temple of Irving Celebration Orchestra. (Added 1999.2.6)

Robert Van Sice, percussion, has premiered over one hundred works, including concertos, chamber music, and solos. He has made solo appearances with symphony orchestras and given recitals in Europe, North America, Africa and the Far East. In 1989 he gave the first full-length marimba recitals at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and has since played in most of Europe's major concert halls, many of which have been broadcast by the BBC, Swedish Radio, Norwegian Radio, WDR and Radio France. He is frequently invited as a soloist with Europe's leading contemporary music ensembles and festivals, including the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Contrechamps, and L'Itineraire and the Archipel, Darmstadt and North American New Music festivals among others. From 1988 to 1997 he headed Europe's first diploma program for solo marimbists at the Rotterdam's Conservatorium. Mr. Van Sice has given master classes in over twenty countries and frequently visits the major conservatories in Europe as a guest lecturer. He attended the Cleveland Institute of Music, Toho Gakuen, and South African College of Music and has studied with Cloyd Duff, Keiko Abe, Leigh Howard Stevens and Michael Rosen.[Excerpt from the homepage linked above.] (added 1997.11.16)

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. (added 2000.11.6)