PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY
The Percussive Arts Society is the world's largest percussion organization and is considered the central source for information and networking for percussionists and drummers of all ages. Established in 1961 as a non-profit, music service organization, our mission is to promote percussion education, research, performance and appreciation throughout the world. Today, we are 9,000-members strong with 50 chapters located across the United States, and an additional 24 chapters outside the United States... more

NORTHBROOK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Take 70 individuals. Choose a wide range of ages and temperaments, from different backgrounds and histories, but all sharing a love of music and a talent for performing. Bring them together under a talented leader. Let them learn, grow, mature and think as one. And there you have it ... the musicians of the Northbrook Symphony Orchestra. You'll be thrilled by the musical performance at every NSO concert... more

RHAPSODY PERCUSSION
Rhapsody Percussion specializes in high-quality timpani mallets, keyboard mallets and accessories. We are solely an internet business therefore we are able to offer you high-quality, yet low-cost percussion mallets and accesories... more

GORDON STOUT
Gordon Stout is currently Professor of Percussion at the School of Music, Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y., where he has taught percussion since 1980. As a composer-recitalist he has premiered a number of his original compositions and works by other contemporary composers... more

RICHARD GIPSON
Richard Gipson came to Texas Christian University in July, 2002 as Director of the School of Music and Professor of Music after serving for 26 years on the faculty of the University of Oklahoma School of Music... more

LEIGH HOWARD STEVENS
Hailed by Time magazine as “the world's greatest classical marimbist”, Leigh Howard Stevens’ repertoire ranges from Renaissance music and the Preludes and Fugues of J. S. Bach, to original marimba works written by contemporary composers expressly for him... more

BOB BECKER
Generally considered to be one of the world's premier virtuoso performers on the xylophone and marimba, Becker also appears regularly as an independent soloist and clinician... more

ROBIN ENGELMAN
Robin Engelman studied percussion and composition with Warren Benson at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. He is a founding member of Nexus - formed in 1971 - and a member of the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame... more

ROBERT VAN SICE
Robert van Sice has rapidly become the most exciting performer of contemporary marimba music on the concert scene and the worlds most sought after marimba teachers. To date he has premiered over one hundred works, including concertos, chamber music, and solos, and is in demand the world over... more

NEXUS
The first, entirely improvised NEXUS concert in 1971 marked the formation of a group that would touch and entertain people of all levels of musical learning, in all genres of percussion music. Bob Becker, Bill Cahn, Robin Engelman, Russell Hartenberger and Garry Kvistad are virtuosos alone, and bring elements of their knowledge and character to a distinct and powerful whole... more

CLASSIC VIOLINS
We are proud of the superior quaility all of our hand crafted instruments offer. Our repairs and restorations are performed by professional violinmakers, graduates of the Chicago School of Violin Making. Come and visit our shop and see how we can meet your needs... more

CHRIS TANTCHEV AND "OVERPASS"
Overpass have been building momentum in the live music scene following their appearances on Rove Live, The NRL Semi Finals & Tri-Nations Final in 2006... more