The Pendulum Percussion Duo (Joseph Krygier and Susan Powell) has been performing together since 1992. Their repertoire consists of a wide variety of styles and genres including world, ragtime, contemporary and electronic selections, as well as pieces the duo has composed for themselves. Pendulum has presented numerous concerts at festivals, chamber music series and on university campuses in the U.S. and Europe, combining their versatility as both performers and clinicians. Over the past few years, they have also appeared at Percussive Arts Society ‘Days of Percussion’ in Ohio, Kansas, South Carolina, Alabama and Florida, as well as several state music conventions. Recent appearances include the CrossDrumming Festival in Warsaw, Poland, International Drum and Percussion Festival in Ukmerge, Lithuania, Vilnius Conservatory of Music, Lithuania, Stockholm and Piteå, Sweden, Bands of America Summer Symposium, University of Kentucky, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Florida State University, Belmont University and the University of Central Florida. Past appearances include the Ameropa Chamber Music Festival in Prague, Czech Republic, Berklee School of Music ‘Week of Percussion’, Belmont University, Eastman School of Music, Zildjian “Factory Concert” in Norwall, Massachusetts, Leigh Howard Stevens Summer Marimba Seminar and the Northwestern Summer Symposium. Highlights of their 2008-2009 concert schedule include appearances at the 5th International Percussion Festival in Monterrey, Mexico, the Maryland Day of Percussion, and a tour of the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas. In May of 2009 they will premiere Crystal Cabinet by Bill Cahn, a commissioned work written for Pendulum. The duo has future commissioning projects in progress by other members of the percussion group Nexus, and by Swedish vibraphone virtuoso Anders Åstrand.

Pendulum Percussion Duo

Quick Facts

Performing since 1992

Recent performances  in Poland, Sweden, Lithuania, Florida, Tennessee, Wyoming, Wisconsin, Virginia, Illinois, Maryland

sampling of works  Twine by Rolf Wallin, Alegria by Bill Brennan, Inventions 1-8 by Daniel Levitan; Toccata by Anders Koppel; carpe diem by  Susan Powell; Wrongo Dongo by Joseph Krygier

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Check out our interview and short performance demo from the Crossdrumming Festival, Warsaw, Poland June 2008