Biography
With 32 years of international concerts and the recording of an original repertoire,Tambuco Percussion Ensemble has celebrated an acclaimed career, establishing itself among the finest percussion quartets today. Audiences throughout the world have enjoyed the musicianship of Tambuco in programs devoted exclusively to show a vast universe of percussion music.
Two times GRAMMY Award Winners and six time GRAMMY Nominees including Best Classical Album and Best Chamber Ensemble, Tambuco, was founded in 1993 by four distinguished musicians and is ranked among the finest and most innovative in the world. These four musicians refuse to be tied down to one style, with a repertoire ranging from structuralist percussion music to a wide range of ethnic drum music and avante garde sound interpretation.The one constant is their desire for perfection and unique, virtuoso performance.
The musicians of "Tambuco" use all conceivable and inconceivable means to realize their musical ideas. Tambuco has been awarded with many distinctions and prizes from cultural organizations in Mexico and abroad. Tambuco was awarded the prestigious Japan Foundation Award for the Arts and Culture: the most important distinction Japan gives to an artist.
Tambuco has offered concerts in five continents, amongst which are worth mentioning concerts in the USA (Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Walt DIsney Hall), Japan (Ino Hall, Toppan Hall, Tsuda Hall), London (Barbican Centre), Paris and Montpellier (Festival de Radio France), Germany (Berliner Festspiele), Australia (Quennsland and Canberra Music Festivals) plus concerts in Canada, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Slovenia, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Cuba, Colombia, Peru, Brasil, Uruguay, Argentina, Singapore,Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, as well as practically all of Mexico's concert halls.
One of Tambuco's most important activities is collaboration.As solo ensemble,Tambuco has performed and recorded with musicians, ensembles and orchestras such as Keiko Abe, Stewat Copeland, Eduardo Mata, Valerie Naranjo, Nanae Yoshimura, Kifu Mitsuhashi, Kronos Quartet, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, The Michael Nyman Band, Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier, Sao Paulo State Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México, Orquesta Sinfónica de Guanajuato, La Camerata, Orquesta FIlarmónica de Jalisco, Orchestra de Catania and Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, amongst many, many others.
To date,Tambuco has recorded 15 CDs. Their recording of Gabriela Ortiz's Yanga alongside the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel earned them two GRAMMY Awards. Additionally, Tambuco has received six GRAMMY nominations. It's Album Rítmicas, was selected by Audiophile Audition as one of the best CDs of the year, and the Albums Café Jegog and Smell of the Earth have received the Record Jeijetsu acknowledgement in Japan.Tambuco recorded also with Kronos Quartet on their GRAMMY nominated album Nuevo. As well as the performance and recording the soundtrack for the James Bond’s film Spectre.