Robert Schulz, percussion

Percussionist Robert Schulz is widely regarded as one of the finest freelance percussionists working today, with an expertise extending across a broad range of musical styles, ensembles and instruments.  He is the principal percussionist for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Boston Musica Viva and Dinosaur Annex New Music Ensemble, timpanist with Boston Baroque, Cantata Singers, Emmanuel Music and Odyssey Opera, and has been a guest artist with the Boston Chamber Music Society and the Boston Celebrity Series on numerous occasions. In 2004, Schulz received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Small Ensemble Performance on Yehudi Wyner’s The Mirror (Naxos).  He tours nationally and internationally with pipa virtuoso Wu Man and was the featured soloist for the 2006 CrossSound Festival in Juneau, Alaska.  In 2010 he recorded Kick and Ride, a concerto for drumset and orchestra, written expressly for him by Eric Moe, available on BMOP/Sound. He was co-soloist for the local premier of Philip Glass’ Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra in 2015 with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and performed at the Beijing Music Festival in 2016.