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Amadinda Percussion Group

Amadinda Percussion Group

Amadinda Percussion Group has been played on NTS in shows including Fractal Meat On A Spongy Bone, featured first on 22 May 2015. Songs played include Music For Pieces Of Wood and Music For 18 Musicians.

Amadinda Percussion Group was formed in 1984 in Budapest by four musicians, just after having graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. Since founding the ensemble, the central point of their activity has been double. On one hand to present masterpieces of percussion music, unknown to the Hungarian audience so far, on the other hand to perform the music of Hungarian contemporary composers in their country and abroad. One of their principal intentions is to inspire Hungarian and international composers to create new pieces. During the recent years three more new elements have been added to their aims: research of traditional percussion cultures, composing new pieces by the members of the group and transcribing outstanding pieces of music history for percussion instruments.

From the very beginning Amadinda has cooperated with world famous artists like John Cage (recording his complete works for percussion), Bruno Canino, Peter Eötvös, Rosemary Hardy, András Keller, Zoltán Kocsis, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, András Schiff. Today, Amadinda is considered as one of the most original and versatile percussion groups in the world.

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Amadinda Percussion Group

Amadinda Percussion Group has been played on NTS in shows including Fractal Meat On A Spongy Bone, featured first on 22 May 2015. Songs played include Music For Pieces Of Wood and Music For 18 Musicians.

Amadinda Percussion Group was formed in 1984 in Budapest by four musicians, just after having graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. Since founding the ensemble, the central point of their activity has been double. On one hand to present masterpieces of percussion music, unknown to the Hungarian audience so far, on the other hand to perform the music of Hungarian contemporary composers in their country and abroad. One of their principal intentions is to inspire Hungarian and international composers to create new pieces. During the recent years three more new elements have been added to their aims: research of traditional percussion cultures, composing new pieces by the members of the group and transcribing outstanding pieces of music history for percussion instruments.

From the very beginning Amadinda has cooperated with world famous artists like John Cage (recording his complete works for percussion), Bruno Canino, Peter Eötvös, Rosemary Hardy, András Keller, Zoltán Kocsis, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, András Schiff. Today, Amadinda is considered as one of the most original and versatile percussion groups in the world.

Original source: Last.fm

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Music For Pieces Of Wood
Steve Reich, Amadinda Percussion Group
Hungaroton Classic1990
Music For 18 Musicians
Steve Reich, Amadinda Percussion Group
Hungaroton Classic2004