Events

Sandbox returns to 92NY with Andy Akiho's Pulitzer-finalist, Grammy-nominated evening-length Seven Pillars.

Andy Akiho joins Sandbox for their UMS debut at Rackham, with arrangements of his earliest works, Seven Pillars selections and new Pentalateral excerpts.

Sandbox and the students they've mentored perform Steve Reich's minimalist masterpiece Drumming at Trinity.

The New York premiere of John Luther Adams’s Prophecies of Fire, which Sandbox Percussion premiered in 2024, at The New School.

Sandbox, pianist Conor Hanick, and mezzo Elspeth Davis give an immersive Christopher Cerrone portrait in the Met's Engelhard Court.

Sandbox, pianist Conor Hanick, and mezzo Elspeth Davis give an immersive Christopher Cerrone portrait in the Met's Engelhard Court (second night).

The Peabody Percussion Group celebrates an evening of music by Andy Akiho.

Sandbox joins the virtuosic Gandini Juggling for a genre-crossing collaboration at the Yale Schwarzman Center.

With pianists Matthew Aucoin and Conor Hanick, Sandbox performs its own arrangement of Simeon ten Holt’s hypnotic Canto Ostinato.

Sandbox performs an electric recital for Chamber Music Tulsa.

Akiho and Sandbox reunite for the New York premiere of Pentalateral, a 92NY co-commission with the composer on steel pan.

Sandbox returns to String Theory with Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars at the Hunter Museum of American Art.

Sandbox joins the Durham Medical Orchestra for Viet Cuong's riveting Re(new)al concerto, presented by UMS.

Grammy-winning Sandbox and Portland's own Andy Akiho premiere the evening-length Pentalateral, one week after its NYC debut.

Sandbox reunites with Andy Akiho at UCSD ArtPower for Pentalateral: steel pan, synchronized lighting and five musicians.

Sandbox joins powerhouse drummer-composer Tyshawn Sorey for a performance at Spoleto Festival USA.

The grand finale of the Albany Symphony's American Music Festival: the world premiere of Viet Cuong's Concentric Circles with the Takács Quartet and Sandbox.

Sandbox and violinist Kristin Lee at Music@Menlo, with the West Coast premiere of Vivian Fung's Goddess // Insect and Gabriella Smith's FIVE.

Sandbox joins violinist Kristin Lee for a program at Cincinnati’s Concert Nova.

The Phillips Music season opens with Sandbox performing Michael Torke's vivid, minimalist BLOOM, with the composer present.

Trinity Choir, NOVUS, and Sandbox honor Steve Reich's 90th birthday with Tehillim, Proverb, Traveler's Prayer, and more.

A Concerts at One program on the theme of transcendence: Andy Akiho's Portal alongside Reich's Jacob's Ladder and works by Montgomery and Lang.

Sandbox joins the Topeka Symphony for Viet Cuong's audience-thrilling percussion concerto Re(new)al, on a program of Hanson, Copland, and Gershwin.

As ensemble in residence at Trinity, Sandbox explores music that lifts up the traveler and the outsider, by Reich, Caroline Shaw, Paul Wiancko and David Lang.

Sandbox joins Trinity's Concerts at One as ensemble-in-residence, pairing Reich's Tehillim with the Bach that inspired it, plus Viet Cuong's Next Week's Trees.

Sandbox Percussion joined Andy Akiho at Salt Bay Chamberfest for a portrait concert featuring works spanning the composer’s innovative percussion repertoire, including the world premiere of Pentalateral I.

Sandbox Percussion joined Andy Akiho at Salt Bay Chamberfest for a portrait concert featuring works spanning the composer’s innovative percussion repertoire, including the world premiere of Pentalateral I.

Anthony Roth Costanzo curated a week of Minimalist music at Little Island, with Sandbox Percussion and pianist Bryan Wagorn.

Anthony Roth Costanzo curated a week of Minimalist music at Little Island, with Sandbox Percussion and pianist Bryan Wagorn.

Sandbox Percussion joined composer Christopher Cerrone and the Young People's Chorus of New York City for an immersive outdoor premiere exploring transformation, resilience, and collective movement through music.

Sandbox Percussion and Kristin Lee performed music by Vivian Fung, Gabriella Smith, and Joan Tower at The Breakers, including the premiere of Fung’s Goddess//Insect.

The Sandbox Percussion Summer Seminar culminates in a collaborative performance of Steve Reich's complete Drumming, performed by Sandbox Percussion and summer seminar musicians.

Sandbox Percussion joins Empyrean Atlas for the opening concert of this year's Sandbox Percussion Seminar. The performance includes a sneak-peak of David Crowell's new work, Ecotone.

Sandbox Percussion joined the Albany Symphony and conductor David Alan Miller for the finale of the American Music Festival, featuring world premieres and new works by leading contemporary composers including Viet Cuong and Christopher Theofanidis.

A concert showcasing the very best from over 200 entertaining works commissioned exclusively for the Dogs of Desire, including Viet Cuong’s Re(new)al.

A concert showcasing the very best from over 200 entertaining works commissioned exclusively for the Dogs of Desire, including Viet Cuong’s Re(new)al.

The Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City presented Sandbox Percussion at Libby Gardner Concert Hall, closing its 60th anniversary season.

Sandbox Percussion and violinist, Kristin Lee, take the stage for an exciting performance of new works for percussion quartet and violin.

Canto Ostinato, by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt, is considered the most popular Dutch work in minimal music.

Canto Ostinato, by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt, is considered the most popular Dutch work in minimal music.

Kristin Lee and Sandbox Percussion gave the DMV premiere of Vivian Fung's Goddess//Insect for Constellations, with works by Tower and Smith.

Pianist Erik Hall, Sandbox Percussion and UW School of Music students & faculty join ECM for Simeon ten Holt’s evening-length minimalist work.

Pianist Erik Hall, Sandbox Percussion and UW School of Music students & faculty join ECM for Simeon ten Holt’s evening-length minimalist work.

Sandbox Percussion performs Simeon ten Holt’s minimalist masterpiece, Canto Ostinato, with Metropolis Ensemble and Erik Hall.

Sandbox Percussion gave the guest artist recital opening the Penn State Percussion Festival & Conference.

Sandbox Percussion played Viet Cuong's Re(new)al with the Columbus Symphony, on a program with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8.

Sandbox Percussion played Viet Cuong's Re(new)al with the Columbus Symphony, on a program with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8.

Sandbox Percussion makes their Hong Kong debut at the 7th annual TICAFest, presented by Toolbox Percussion.

Sandbox Percussion teams up with Emerald City Artistic Director Kristin Lee for a groundbreaking performance featuring three new premieres.

Sandbox Percussion teams up with Emerald City Artistic Director Kristin Lee for a groundbreaking performance featuring three new premieres.

Set sail on a breathtaking musical journey where the power and beauty of water come to life through sound.

Harold Meltzer’s collaboration with poet (and Stanford faculty) Aracelis Girmay, You Are Who I Love, produced one of his largest and most thoughtful works.

AMOC* and Sandbox Percussion presented Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato, with Conor Hanick and Matthew Aucoin on piano.

Sandbox Percussion heads to Louisiana Tech University to present a masterclass with LTU students on February 9th at 12pm, and to perform an energetic recital later that evening at 7pm.

Sandbox Percussion gave a guest artist recital at Choate Rosemary Hall, alma mater of member Jonathan Allen.

Sandbox Percussion played Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato with their students in the Peabody Percussion Group.

The Tyshawn Sorey Trio and Sandbox Percussion celebrated the centenary of drummer and composer Max Roach.

Get ready for an electrifying night of rhythm and sonic adventure as the Duke University Wind Symphony proudly hosts the internationally renowned Sandbox Percussion for a high-energy residency on campus!

Sandbox Percussion performed at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center during its Points in Space exhibition.

Sandbox Percussion gave an afternoon recital for ProMusica at the Harry M. Cornell Arts & Entertainment Complex in Joplin.

Sandbox Percussion played Viet Cuong's Re(new)al with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra on a program with Copland's Billy the Kid.

Andy Akiho and Sandbox Percussion returned to KANEKO in Omaha to share new music for percussion quartet and steelpan.

Andy Akiho and Sandbox Percussion returned to KANEKO in Omaha to share new music for percussion quartet and steelpan.

Sandbox Percussion played a recital in the TLI Presents series at Tanglewood's Linde Center for Music and Learning.

Sandbox Percussion in concert at the Cape Cod Performing Arts Center in Brewster, presented by Arts Empowering Life.

A free portrait concert of Christopher Cerrone's music by Sandbox Percussion at The New School's Tishman Auditorium.

Sandbox Percussion opened Season V of the Summit Chamber Music Series at the Metropolitan Theatre in Morgantown.

Seminar participants performed Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars in full, plus Akiho's new Portal with Sandbox Percussion and the composer.

Sandbox Percussion performs the world premieres of their 2024-2025 Creator Mentorship Program collaborators, Arjan Singh and Ted Babcock, at the opening concert for the tenth annual Sandbox Percussion Seminar.

Matthew Aucoin and Peter Sellars’s Music for New Bodies, a vocal symphony on poems by Jorie Graham, staged at David Geffen Hall.

Matthew Aucoin and Peter Sellars’s Music for New Bodies, a vocal symphony on poems by Jorie Graham, staged at David Geffen Hall.

The New York premiere of Simeon ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato, a co-production of AMOC* and Sandbox Percussion, at the David Rubenstein Atrium.

West Coast premiere of Douglas J. Cuomo's THE JUMP UP!, with Sandbox Percussion, Steven Schick and San Diego community percussionists.

Sandbox Percussion played Viet Cuong's Re(new)al with the Mannes Orchestra and David Hayes at Alice Tully Hall.

Featuring Akiho's Seven Pillars

Sandbox Percussion performs Andy Akiho’s GRAMMY-nominated Seven Pillars at Appalachian State University

Performance at the Auditorium Chamber Music Series at University of Idaho

The Tyshawn Sorey Trio and Sandbox Percussion explored the legacy of jazz pioneer Max Roach, joining forces for a new piece honoring his M’Boom ensemble.

Sandbox Percussion performs the music of Christopher Cerrone at the Yale Schwarzman Center for the release of a new album celebrating Sandbox Percussion's long-standing collaboration with Christopher Cerrone.

Performance at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music

Programing featuring Akiho's Seven Pillars

Programing featuring Kihlstedt

Join Us for the Concert World Premiere of Michael Torke's Bloom

Sandbox Percussion joined the Peabody Percussion Group for Steve Reich's Drumming in Griswold Hall.

The Tyshawn Sorey Trio and Sandbox Percussion explored the legacy of jazz pioneer Max Roach, joining forces for a new piece honoring his M’Boom ensemble.

The Tyshawn Sorey Trio and Sandbox Percussion explored the legacy of jazz pioneer Max Roach, joining forces for a new piece honoring his M’Boom ensemble.

Collaboration with the Tyshawn Sorey Trio

Collaboration with the Tyshawn Sorey Trio

Collaboration with the Tyshawn Sorey Trio

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Trinity’s new-music orchestra, NOVUS, continues its series of works that grapple with vital social issues.

Renowned quartet Sandbox Percussion joins forces with Gandini Juggling to illustrate how we hear, see, and perform sounds and rhythm.

Renowned quartet Sandbox Percussion joins forces with Gandini Juggling to illustrate how we hear, see, and perform sounds and rhythm.

Andy Akiho and Sandbox Percussion presented Seven Pillars at the 27th Beijing Music Festival, in the Forbidden City Concert Hall.

Sandbox Percussion performed Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars in Salter Hall on Wabash College's Visiting Artist Series.

Sandbox Percussion joins the American Modern Opera Company to premiere a new work by Matthew Aucoin directed by Peter Sellars.

THE JUMP UP! is a celebration of the joy of communal music making, composed by Douglas J. Cuomo (Doubt, Arjuna’s Dilemma) for Sandbox Percussion and volunteer percussionists from the local community.

Soovin Kim and Sandbox Percussion repeated Joan Tower's new To Sing or Dance at Reed College for Chamber Music Northwest.

World premiere of Joan Tower's To Sing or Dance, for violin and percussion quartet, with Soovin Kim and Sandbox Percussion at Chamber Music Northwest.

Sandbox Percussion's Oregon Bach Festival concert, during the world-premiere weekend of John Luther Adams' Prophecies of Fire.

Be among the first to experience Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams’s final major work for chamber ensemble!

Sandbox Percussion and students of the 2024 Sandbox Percussion Seminar join Metropolis Ensemble in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the world premiere arrangement of Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato.

This year's Sandbox Percussion Seminar participants join Sandbox Percussion for the culminating concert of the seminar. This performance will feature the chamber works that students have prepared throughout the seminar.

Sandbox Percussion opens their 9th annual summer seminar with an exciting performance to welcome this year's seminar students to The New School.

Sandbox Percussion joined The Choir of Trinity Wall Street for Garth Neustadter's Memory of Water on a NOVUS Renewal program.

With the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Sandbox Percussion played George Crumb's Winds of Destiny and Tan Dun's Elegy: Snow in June.

Sunday matinee: Sandbox Percussion played Viet Cuong's Re(new)al with the Albany Symphony and David Alan Miller.

Sandbox Percussion played Viet Cuong's Re(new)al with the Albany Symphony and David Alan Miller, on an all-Cuong first half.

Sandbox Percussion performed Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars at Furman University during a week-long residency with the Fine Arts Center.

Sandbox Percussion joins The Crossing to premiere Harold Meltzer's new work, You Are Who I Love. This piece has waited six years from the first discussions to reach the stage.

The annual concert of the UMKC Conservatory percussion studio, where Sandbox Percussion are ensemble-in-residence and faculty.

Constellations Chamber Concerts presented the DMV-area premiere of Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars, performed by Sandbox Percussion.

Sandbox Percussion performed Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars in Grant Recital Hall at Brown University.

Sandbox Percussion performs a concert of music by Graduate Students and Faculty in the Brown University’s Music & Multimedia Composition program as part of ensemble’s residency at Brown.

Tyshawn Sorey and his trio and the endlessly inventive Sandbox Percussion celebrate the extraordinary legacy of Max Roach on his centenary.

Sandbox Percussion and pianist Conor Hanick at 92NY, with world and New York premieres by Fung, Ludwig-Leone, Cerrone, Adams, Sorey and Akiho.

Online premieres of new works by JaRon Brown and Lila Meretzky from Sandbox Percussion's 2022-23 Creator Mentorship Program.

Sandbox Percussion and NOVUS NY gave the third Renewal concert at Trinity Church, with Viet Cuong's Re(new)al.

Sandbox Percussion performed Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars at the Walker Art Center, co-presented with Schubert Club Mix.

The table, and the stage, is set. The concert opens with Dvorak’s boisterous portrait of a street carnival before Gabriela Frank’s triumphant Escaramuza.

The table, and the stage, is set. The concert opens with Dvorak’s boisterous portrait of a street carnival before Gabriela Frank’s triumphant Escaramuza.

Sandbox Percussion will perform in the Veterans Room at Park Avenue Armory.

Sandbox Percussion will perform in the Veterans Room at Park Avenue Armory.

Sandbox Percussion performed Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami.

Aperio, Music of the Americas opened its 2023-24 season with Sandbox Percussion performing Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars at MATCH.

Sandbox Percussion opened its first full year as ensemble-in-residence at The New School with Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars.

Sandbox Percussion premiered two Tippet Rise commissions by Amy Beth Kirsten and Douglas J. Cuomo, each written in response to a Mark di Suvero sculpture.

Sandbox Percussion closes out the series and Bravo!

Hailed by The New York Times as “a lush, brooding celebration of noise,” Andy Akiho’s groundbreaking Seven Pillars is a genre-defying audio collaboration for percussion quartet, performed by Sandbox Percussion.

Sandbox Percussion opened the Classically Uncorked series at Bravo! Vail with new music by Amy Beth Kirsten, David Crowell, Juri Seo, Viet Cuong and Victor Caccese.

The work is structured as a large-scale palindrome and consists of seven ensemble movements and one solo movement for each member of Sandbox Percussion.

Sandbox Percussion performed Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars in Caramoor's Venetian Theater, with a pre-concert conversation.

Sandbox Percussion made its Cleveland debut at the ENCORE Chamber Music festival, with music by Caccese, Seo, Cage, Crowell, Kirsten and Akiho.

The final concert of the Sandbox Percussion Seminar, held at Stiefel Hall at the Mannes School of Music.

We kick off our 8th annual summer seminar this year at The New School College of the Performing Arts.

Guest percussion quartet Sandbox Percussion join the orchestra for Viet Cuong’s work Re(new)al a concerto for percussion quartet and orchestra, inspired by renewable energy sources such as wind, hydro and solar.

Sandbox Percussion will present Seven Pillars by Andy Akiho, which has received the 2022 GRAMMY nominations for both “Best Classical Composition” and “Best Chamber Music Performance" at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The New York-based Ekmeles and Sandbox Percussion join forces to premiere six new works for chamber choir and percussion quartet by University of Chicago graduate student composers.

Sandbox Percussion performed Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars at the University of Akron's Guzzetta Recital Hall.

UMKC Conservatory presented its ensemble in residence, Sandbox Percussion, in Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars at the Just Off Broadway Theatre.

The boldly genre-defying audio and video collaboration consists of seven ensemble movements and one solo movement for each member of Sandbox.

Sandbox Percussion premiered new works by composition students at UT Austin in Bates Recital Hall.

Yale Schwarzman Center presented Sandbox Percussion in Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars, free and open to the public in Commons.

Sandbox Percussion will perform the world premiere of composer and violinist Matt McBane’s Bathymetry in its entirety. The concert will feature an opening set by Matt McBane.

Sandbox Percussion played music by Steve Reich at Hauser & Wirth, in response to Pat Steir’s exhibition Blue River and Rainbow Waterfalls.

The boldly genre-defying audio and video collaboration consists of seven ensemble movements and one solo movement for each member of Sandbox.

The “expert and versatile musicians” (The New Yorker) of NOVUS NY celebrate George Crumb in two concerts titled, Voice of Crumb.

The boldly genre-defying audio and video collaboration consists of seven ensemble movements and one solo movement for each member of Sandbox.

We're back with Musica Viva NY and The Allen-Stevenson School Select Chorus performing Carl Orff’s most iconic work, Carmina Burana.

Sandbox Percussion made their Carnegie Hall debut in Viet Cuong's Re(new)al with Mei-Ann Chen and the American Composers Orchestra.

Dancing to music is one thing; music making you move is another. This abstract hour by Benjamin Millepied, in the 10th anniversary year of his LA Dance Project, subtly explores the difference between the two.

Dancing to music is one thing; music making you move is another. This abstract hour by Benjamin Millepied, in the 10th anniversary year of his LA Dance Project, subtly explores the difference between the two.

Dancing to music is one thing; music making you move is another. This abstract hour by Benjamin Millepied, in the 10th anniversary year of his LA Dance Project, subtly explores the difference between the two.

Dancing to music is one thing; music making you move is another. This abstract hour by Benjamin Millepied, in the 10th anniversary year of his LA Dance Project, subtly explores the difference between the two.

Hailed by The New York Times as “a lush, brooding celebration of noise,” this is Andy Akiho’s most ambitious project to date.

Sandbox Percussion and local percussionists performed John Luther Adams’s Inuksuit, an outdoor surround-sound piece, at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival.

With Carl St.Clair and Pacific Symphony, Sandbox Percussion was the soloist in Viet Cuong's Re(new)al at Segerstrom Concert Hall.

With Carl St.Clair and Pacific Symphony, Sandbox Percussion was the soloist in Viet Cuong's Re(new)al at Segerstrom Concert Hall.

With Carl St.Clair and Pacific Symphony, Sandbox Percussion was the soloist in Viet Cuong's Re(new)al at Segerstrom Concert Hall.

Sandbox Percussion performed Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars at Avaloch Farm Music Institute in Boscawen, New Hampshire.

UofSC graduate Andy Akiho’s monumental percussion quartet Seven Pillars has been called a “lush, brooding celebration of noise” (New York Times).

Sandbox Percussion will perform “Seven Pillars,” a boldly genre-defying audio and video collaboration for percussion quartet, by critically acclaimed composer Andy Akiho.

Musicians and audience mingled outdoors in Cathy’s Meadow for John Luther Adams’s songbirdsongs, with flutists Brandon Patrick George and Alex Sopp.

Claude Debussy and American trailblazer George Crumb are masters of creating vibrant sonic kaleidoscopes. Debussy captures all the color, light, and emotion of an Impressionist painting.

Sandbox Percussion played the free outdoor concert of the 2022 Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival.

Andy Akiho and Sandbox Percussion brought Seven Pillars, the largest chamber work Akiho has written, to Chamber Music Northwest's New@Nite series.

Claude Debussy and American trailblazer George Crumb are masters of creating vibrant sonic kaleidoscopes. Debussy captures all the color, light, and emotion of an Impressionist painting.

Claude Debussy and American trailblazer George Crumb are masters of creating vibrant sonic kaleidoscopes. Debussy captures all the color, light, and emotion of an Impressionist painting.

Sandbox Percussion performed Andy Akiho's GRAMMY®-nominated Seven Pillars at the Walled City Music Festival.

The second weekend of the Trailblaze NY festival takes place in the historic village of Schuylerville, at the beautiful Hudson Crossing Park.

Sandbox Percussion performed Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars at the American Music Festival.

Captivating, fresh, and cutting edge, the Dogs of Desire is always a highlight of the American Music Festival. A singular concert experience featuring newly penned works by today’s most adventurous composers.

Pianist Conor Hanick and Sandbox Percussion played Messiaen, Ligeti and Christopher Cerrone, with the world premiere of a new Gilmore commission by Tyshawn Sorey.

Sandbox Percussion performed Viet Cuong's Re(new)al with the UMKC Symphony at the Kauffman Center's Helzberg Hall.

At Bang on a Can's Long Play festival, Sandbox Percussion played Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars at the Mark Morris Dance Center.

Concordia Chamber Players closed its season with Sandbox Percussion in the East Coast premiere of Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars.

Sandbox Percussion returned to the Music Room at Dumbarton Oaks with an all-new program, including world premieres by David Crowell and Tawnie Olson.

Sandbox Percussion returned to the Music Room at Dumbarton Oaks with an all-new program, including world premieres by David Crowell and Tawnie Olson.

Hailed by The New York Times as “a lush, brooding celebration of noise,” Andy Akiho’s Seven Pillars is his most ambitious project to date.

Hailed by The New York Times as “a lush, brooding celebration of noise,” Andy Akiho’s Seven Pillars is his most ambitious project to date.

Revel in the fire of spring’s awakening as two of the twentieth century’s most rhythmically obsessed works meet the unbridled power of four grand pianos and a full battery of percussion.

The Kansas Drum Days is the largest percussion event in Kansas and one of the largest in the area, and Washburn will be hosting this year.

Sandbox Percussion played Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars on the headline concert of the 2022 University of Delaware Interactive Percussion Seminar.

Sandbox Percussion will perform with mezzo-soprano Elspeth Davis. Sandbox Percussion has established themselves as a leading proponent of this generation of contemporary percussion chamber music.

The New York-based Ekmeles and Sandbox Percussion join forces to premiere six new works for chamber choir and percussion quartet by UChicago graduate student composers.

The world premiere of Jessica Meyer's 20 Minutes of Action, presented by Yellow Barn at the Vermont Jazz Center.

"Seven Pillars" is a brand new evening length percussion quartet by Andy Akiho with original lighting design and staging by Michael Joseph McQuilken.

"Seven Pillars" is a brand new evening length percussion quartet by Andy Akiho with original lighting design and staging by Michael Joseph McQuilken.

"Seven Pillars" is a brand new evening length percussion quartet by Andy Akiho with original lighting design and staging by Michael Joseph McQuilken.

"Seven Pillars" is a brand new evening length percussion quartet by Andy Akiho with original lighting design and staging by Michael Joseph McQuilken.

Sandbox Percussion played Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars as the Friday evening concert of PASIC 2021 in Indianapolis.

Sandbox Percussion performed at the Gaida Festival with music by Cage, Viet Cuong, Amy Beth Kirsten, Andy Akiho, Reich and Riley.

Sandbox and the participants of the NYU Sandbox Seminar will give the virtual world premiere of a new version of Walk, March, Run by Kendall Williams. This premiere will happen virtually on YouTube premiere

The 2021 NYU seminar closing concert included the world premiere version of Kendall Williams's Walk, March, Run with seminar participants.

Streamed from Brooklyn, the opening concert of the 2021 NYU Sandbox Percussion Seminar, a year after the quartet's first studio live stream.

Join us for a collaborative premiere of a new work by Kenneth Frazelle with renowned soprano Lindsay Kesselman at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC).

Sandbox Percussion streamed a new arrangement of Andy Akiho's Karakurenai with musicians from Samford University.

A virtual concert for The University of Alabama in Huntsville, part of the Spring 2021 Constellation Concert Series.

We are thrilled to partner up with String Theory for a live virtual concert broadcast from our studio in Brooklyn, NY. This concert will take place over Zoom.

Sandbox Percussion gave the online world premiere of Vivian Fung's (Un)Wandering Souls at the Bangsokol Virtual Arts and Healing Festival.

A live-streamed concert from the Sandbox studio for Concerts on the Slope, the Brooklyn series where the quartet played its first New York concert in 2012.

On November 15th at 5pm ET we will be performing a live streamed concert from our studio in Brooklyn, NY presented by Concordia Chamber Players.

We went live from our Brooklyn studio for the fourth installment of the Sandbox (Virtual) Concert Series, streaming on YouTube and Facebook.

Sandbox Percussion gave a 15-minute live-streamed presentation in the Western Arts Alliance 2020 virtual showcase.

We're partnering with Dreamstage Live to present a livestream concert from our Brooklyn studio on September 16th.

Streaming live from our Brooklyn studio in partnership with Constellations Chamber Concerts.

We gather online for a final virtual hang with all of our students at the NYU Sandbox Percussion (Virtual!) Seminar.

We join pianist Conor Hanick for a world premiere of a new piece by Christopher Cerrone. We will also feature works by Andy Akiho, Amy Beth Kirsten, David Crowell, and Juri Seo.

Live-streamed from Brooklyn, the opening concert of the 2020 NYU Sandbox (Virtual) Percussion Seminar and Sandbox's 2020-21 studio series.

Sandbox Percussion's second Dumbarton Oaks concert included the second performance of Viet Cuong's Sandbox.

Sandbox Percussion gave the first all-percussion concert at Dumbarton Oaks, with the premiere of Viet Cuong's Sandbox.

A/V 360 presented the release show for our debut album, And That One Too, at National Sawdust.

Sandbox Percussion returned to Concerts on the Slope in Brooklyn with music by composer-in-residence Natalie Dietterich.

We're heading out to Avaloch Farm Music Institute in Boscawen, NH October 19-31.

Throughout the week we rehearse and study percussion chamber music with students from all around the world.

We kick off our 4th annual NYU Sandbox Percussion Seminar with a performance in Frederick Loewe Theatre featuring works by Amy Beth Kirsten, Andy Akiho, Elliot Cole, Julia Wolfe and Viet Cuong.

We're collaborating with piccolo players Emi Ferguson and Catherine Gregory for a special performance of John Luther Adams' work songbirdsongs.

We will be performing works by Jonny Allen, Victor Caccese, Steve Reich, Juri Seo, and Julia Wolfe and giving the world premiere of Brendon Randall-Myers’ Conjoining.

We will be giving the world premiere of a new work by Benjamin Wallace for street organ and percussion quartet alongside works by Andy Akiho, Charlie Peck, Jason Treuting, Steve Reich, and Viet Cuong.

At the Vale of Glamorgan Festival, Sandbox Percussion gave a concert for schoolchildren at St David's Hall, Cardiff.

We will be performing music by Amy Beth Kirsten and Steve Reich in outdoor locations throughout Cardiff. Look out for appearances at St Fagans National Museum of History, Barry Island and Penarth Pier and more.

Sandbox Percussion and cellist Gabriel Cabezas played Alyssa Weinberg's in the sand on Princeton Sound Kitchen's Freelance Concert.

Sandbox Percussion joined the New Orchestra of Washington for Viet Cuong's Re(new)al at the Church of the Epiphany.

Join us for a master class as part of Levine Music’s 2019 Composition Weekend. Levine composition students will present their works for feedback.

We will be performing at the Levine School of Music for Composition Weekend. Our program is includes the following...

Sandbox Percussion played a Groupmuse house concert hosted by Kathe Williamson on P Street in Georgetown.

Sandbox Percussion joined the Curtis Symphony Orchestra for Viet Cuong's Re(new)al, on a program of new works by Curtis composers.

Sandbox Percussion premiered the wind ensemble version of Viet Cuong's Re(new)al with the Brooklyn Wind Symphony.

Acclaimed film and theater actor Paul Lazar delivers John Cage's revolutionary lecture Indeterminacy, accompanied by and coexisting with Cage's rhythmically propulsive percussion music, performed by Sandbox Percussion.

Acclaimed film and theater actor Paul Lazar delivers John Cage's revolutionary lecture Indeterminacy, accompanied by and coexisting with Cage's rhythmically propulsive percussion music, performed by Sandbox Percussion.

Sandbox Percussion played works by Christopher Cerrone, Julia Wolfe, Victor Caccese and Andy Akiho at Cal Poly Pomona.

Equal Sound proudly presents an evening of percussion and electronic music in a warehouse in LA’s Frogtown neighborhood.

Sandbox Percussion joined Emerald City Music to perform Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians at the Minnaert Center in Olympia.

A late-night second performance of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians with Emerald City Music, added after the 8pm show sold out.

We joined our friends at Emerald City Music to perform Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians at 415 Westlake.

We will perform works by Christopher Cerrone, Viet Cuong, and Julia Wolfe, as part of Cerrone’s Reiterations series with Metropolis Ensemble, moderated by a conversation with poet G.C.

Sandbox Percussion gave a guest artist concert at UMass Amherst's Bezanson Recital Hall as the department's ensemble in residence.

Concerts on the Slope is near and dear to our hearts being one was one the first venues we every performed at in NYC. We'll be featuring music by David Crowell, Julia Wolfe, Dave Molk and Nick DiBerardino.

We join the Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kevin Noe for a performance of Viet Cuong's concerto Re(new)al.

We join The Percussion Collective for the Friday evening concert at PASIC in Sagamore Ballroom.

We're making our second appearance at Kettle Corn New Music to premiere a new work by Alex Weiser entitled, with gentle fingers. We will be joined on this piece by the amazing vocalist Eliza Bagg.

Sandbox Percussion and percussionists from across Tennessee performed John Luther Adams's Inuksuit outdoors in Coolidge Park, Chattanooga.

Sandbox Percussion made their Chattanooga debut on the String Theory at the Hunter series, with works by Akiho, Bach, Caccese, Crowell and Reich.

Sandbox Percussion opened the Albany Symphony's 2018-19 season in the premiere of the full orchestral version of Viet Cuong's Re(new)al.

Sandbox Percussion performed at Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, New York.

This is Groupmuse's first outdoor round with the Brooklyn based percussion quartet "Sandbox" performing new and old compositions on the rooftop in Vinegar Hill with a fabulous view over Manhattan.

Hailed by the Washington Post for their “high-end playfulness” and “jaw-dropping virtuosity”, the NYU Sandbox Percussion Showcase is the culmination of the NYU Sandbox Percussion Seminar.

Sandbox Percussion played the faculty concert of the 2018 NYU Sandbox Percussion Seminar at the Frederick Loewe Theatre.

Sandbox Percussion, praised by The Washington Post for their “jaw-dropping virtuosity,” performed at the International Music Sessions.