The timpani are among a symphony orchestra’s most exciting instruments. There’s nothing quite like a musician pounding away on wide kettledrums made from copper. But aside from the occasional dramatic ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. What is a percussion instrument? Well, in the simplest terms it's something ...

This article was published 20/12/2013 (4559 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. A Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO) musician said playing the drums is more than just hitting the ...

Conductor Elizabeth Young said the orchestra was able to secure the set of four giant kettle drums, worth more than $20,000, thanks to the generosity of the Queensland Government and the Gambling ...

Pity the poor percussionist who needed to rent a timpani last Saturday night! Most of Vancouver’s kettledrums—nine, in total—could be found at the Orpheum Annex, with six of them in a neat semi-circle ...

Markus Rhoten started learning piano as a toddler in Germany, "but I would always go to the low notes. I had an affinity for bass," he said. So his parents started him on drum lessons when he was 5.

Their natural habitat might be the orchestra, but that doesn't mean the timps don't also have a place in more contemporary contexts… When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

James Jacobson is Principal Timpanist of the Richmond Symphony and Percussion Coordinator of the AIMS Summer Festival in Graz, Austria. He was Acting Principal Timpanist of the Hawaii Symphony ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...