Artists - Yamaha

David Panzl

Senior Lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Teacher, chamber musician and soloist.

Calum Huggan

Calum's passion for percussion spans performance, collaboration and teaching.

Anders Astrand

Anders Åstrand is a mallet artist, clinician and composer. As a mallet specialist, Åstrand regularly performs and gives clinics throughout the US, Latin America, Australia, and Europe. With his percussion ensemble, Global Percussion Network, he has toured extensively in Sweden, Europe, the USA and South Korea.

Elbtonal Percussion

Beyond repetitive afro-trance-percussion and incorporating a wide array of styles, this quartet (Jan- Frederick Behrend Wolfgang Rummel, Andrej Kauffmann, Stephan Krause) crosses through classical repertoire, new music, rock, jazz and drum’n’bass. We are very pleased to be able to official welcome Elbtonal Percussion to the Yamaha Artist family.

Johannes Fischer

Born in Leonberg, Germany, in 1981 he had his first piano and percussion lessons at the age of 9.

Leonie Klein

Leonie Klein born in 1993 started playing percussion at the age of six.

Lucas Dorado

Freelance, Composer & Bandleader

Pius Cheung

Pius Cheung is widely known as a one of the most important percussionists of his generation.

Jean Geoffroy

The French percussionist and marimba player, Jean Geoffroy, studied at at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris where he won first prize in percussion in 1985.