Sandbox Percussion - Seven Pillars
Fri, Mar 01
|Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center
One of the "best classical music performances of 2023" - NY Times
Time & Location
Mar 01, 2024, 7:30 PM
Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center, 51 Mannakee St, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
About the Event
GRAMMY®-nominated ‘Seven Pillars’
Music by Andy Akiho
Performed by Sandbox Percussion
Stage Direction and Lighting Design by Michael Joseph McQuilken
Constellations is proud to present the DMV-area premiere of Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars performed by Sandbox Percussion, recently hailed by the NY Times as one of the "best classical music performances of 2023." Seven Pillars is a boldly genre-defying and collaboration for percussion quartet, nominated for two GRAMMY® awards for "best contemporary classical composition" and "best chamber music performance." The work consists of seven ensemble movements and one solo movement for each member of Sandbox, developed through multiple extended residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
This evening-length work is the largest-scale chamber music work that Akiho has written and that Sandbox has commissioned. Akiho and Sandbox’s ongoing collaboration for “Seven Pillars” has spanned on and off for 8 years. It has been a labor of love between friends. “I’ve never…