Robert
Schulz
Percussion
Described
by the Newport Daily Express as "Bare hands, bare feet, tour de force
complete!", Robert Schulz has become one of modern music's busiest and
most versatile percussionists. He serves as principal percussionist for
the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), Boston Landmarks Orchestra,
Boston Musica Viva, Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, and Opera Boston
Orchestra. He has worked with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston
Pops, Boston Ballet Orchestra, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston and
the Boston Chamber Music Society. As a timpanist, mallet specialist and
multi-percussionist, he has been a featured soloist with the Boston
Celebrity Series on numerous occasions. In 2004, Mr. Schulz received a
Grammy Award nomination for Best Small Ensemble Performance on Yehudi
Wyner’s The Mirror (Naxos). That year he also gave the Boston premiere
of Tan Dun’s Water Concerto with BMOP. Schulz leads his own group, the
BeatCity Art Ensemble, in performances for the Boston Celebrity Series,
Lincoln Center, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. He
has toured nationally and internationally with pipa virtuoso Wu Man and
was the featured recitalist for the 2006 CrossSound Festival in Juneau,
Alaska. In 2010 he recorded Kick and Ride, a concerto for drumset and
orchestra written for him by Eric Moe. With a performance described as
"Stunning" by Fanfare Magazine, it was released by BMOP Sound in 2011.
An experienced drummer in virtually all contemporary styles, Mr. Schulz
has performed with Dave Brubeck at the Newport Jazz Festival, jazz
violinist Leroy Jenkins, guitar legend Jim Hall, the San Antonio
Symphony, and countless jazz combos, cover bands, and original music
groups over the last 30 years, including the New England Swing, a big
band featuring some of Boston's top jazz musicians. He was recently the
solo percussionist in a new "re-imagining" of Gershwin's opera Porgy and
Bess, to be developed and premiered at the American Repertory Theater.
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