Gloria YehilevskyGloria Yehilevsky is a percussionist in California, engaging worldwide in transmedia, cross-disciplinary and traditional settings as a soloist and collaborative musician. Presenting an immersive practice with improvisation, composition, and education, her work is rooted in the philosophy that music is communication. Selected as an artist with the World Percussion Group in 2017, she appeared at Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. Career highlights include recording for NAXOS, appearing on BBC television with Millennial Percussion, airing on BBC Radio 3 as part of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Royal Opening Gala, performing in the International Symposium at the Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music in Bangkok, earning the Fred Sanford Award as a member of Santa Clara Vanguard and performing at PASIC 2018. She won the Italy PAS International Vibraphone competition and placed second in the Indiana Day of Percussion Marimba competition. She is a Musical Merit Foundation protégé and recipient of the PAS/Armand Zildjian Percussion Scholarship.
Recent and upcoming appearances include virtual presentations at California Institute of the Arts, Morehead State University, University of Northern Alabama, and Eastern Tennessee State University. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, she has been writing a set of miniature compositions including 10 for percussion, 4 for flute, and 2 oboe miniatures centered on individuals’ stories and experiences during the pandemic. Gloria is the logistical director for “Dreamerfly, and other stories…” an interdisciplinary work by the Sounding Eye collective, which she co-founded with UK-based Chinese animator Shiyi Li. It features original music by James Owston and will be premiered online in Herbert Art Gallery & Museum’s ’13 Ways of Looking’ exhibition, and in the Bowed Electrons festival by University of Cape Town in South Africa. Gloria is proud to endorse Black Swamp Percussion as a Concert Artist. |
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Brian Graiser - President, Founder Lindsey Eastham - Vice President Harlan Graiser - Secretary Joshua Smith - Treasurer Lindsey Eastham Jim Bailey Terry Longshore Boyce Jeffries Joshua D. Smith Joseph Van Hassel Brian Graiser Jade Hails Harlan Graiser Thomas (Tony) W. McCutchen Sean Patrick Andres Jerry Tachoir Matthew Jordan Tony Miceli Shilo Stroman Gloria Yehilevsky Matthew Jordan |