Masterclass: Robyn Schulkowsky, percussion

Robyn Schulkowsky has been an innovator and collaborator throughout her life.  She has dedicated herself to revealing the wonders of percussion to people around the world. Her continuous exploration of new sound dimensions has led to the development of new and unusual musical instruments.  She has premiered and recorded some of the most important solo percussion works of the 20th and 21st centuries, working with composers Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, and Morton Feldman. Robyn along with her percussion quintet “Glorious Percussion” and Gustavo Dudamel, she premiered Sofia Gubaidulinas’s acclaimed composition “Glorious Percussion’. Robyn has performed solo and concerto music by John Cage, Helmuth Lachenmann, and Olga Neuwirth.