Unlike most musicians in the Philadelphia Orchestra, Angela Zator Nelson of Media does not play one instrument such as the violin or cello. Instead, as a percussionist, she is adept at playing an ...

Zildjian have announced they will be hosting an Orchestral Cymbal Day at The Royal Academy of Music, London, on 6 October (between 2.30 and 5pm). The event will include demonstrations from Neil Percy ...

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 ...

Cymbals have been an indispensable part of the Western classical palette since the nineteenth‑century march through the twentieth‑century’s cinematic soundscape, their metallic gleam turning silence ...