Meet the Faculty: Robert van Sice
Meet Curtis faculty Robert van Sice in this fall’s edition of Overtones.
“I would love to hear what Debussy would’ve done in a solo marimba piece, but I’m in on the birth of my instrument,” says Mr. van Sice, describing how the world of percussion has grown exponentially in barely 100 years since Debussy’s time. A renowned master of the marimba, he has seen standards of performance reach new heights—and helped to raise them himself, premiering over 100 new works that span the full range of possibilities for percussion. Now, he guides students at Curtis along their own paths in an ever-evolving musical landscape.
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