As part of the series "Intermetamorphosis”, Mark Fell works with Drumming - Percussion Group on a musical piece that revisits a collection of microtonal metallophones originally developed by the composer Iannis Xenakis for the piece "Pléïades”. Drumming – Grupo de PercussãoDrumming – GP was founded in Oporto in 1999 and has since then been directed by Miquel Bernat, an internationally renowned percussionist. The group has been synthesizing the evolution of erudite percussion in Portugal and in western culture. It has rapidly earned the public and the critic's sympathy, and today it is a reference in the Portuguese musical life, performing in the main concert halls of Portugal: Centro Cultural de Belém, Fundação Gulbenkian, Culturgest, Teatro Camões, Teatro Rivoli, Teatro Nacional de S. João, Fundação de Serralves, etc., as well as in Spain, Belgian, France, Germany, Brazil, etc. Resident group for musical programming in Porto 2001 - European Cultural Capital, it has contributed to promote great contemporary plays, also creating its own repertoire, encouraging dozens of national and international composers to write compositions for the group, exploring the most diversified, various and imaginative forms and ways of expressing centered on percussion.
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