The Peabody Post

Sandbox Percussion Nominated for Best Chamber Music 2022 GRAMMY Award

sandbox-percussionSandbox Percussion—Victor Caccese (BM ’11, Percussion), Terry Sweeney (BM ’13, Percussion), Ian Rosenbaum (BM ’08, Percussion), and Jonathan Allen—received a 2022 Grammy Nomination in the “Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance” category for their newest album Seven Pillars. Seven Pillars is a collaboration between composer Andy Akiho and Sandbox to create a “genre-defying audio and video collaboration for percussion quartet.” The 64th Annual Grammy Awards will take place Monday, January 31, 2022. Sandbox Percussion was featured in The New York Times in early December following their Grammy nomination. The Times’ Zachary Woolfe profiled Andy Akiho, the album’s composer, and interviewed Sandbox about working with Akiho and the development of Seven Pillars.

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