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.

(2012)



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