Tambuco is a Mexican contemporary classical percussion group which has been nominated three times for awards including Best Classical Album. It was founded in 1993. The group consists of four percussionists: Ricardo Gallardo, Alfredo Bringas, Raúl Tudón and Miguel González. Their name comes from Carlos Chávez

Carlos Chávez

Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six Symphonies, his Symphony No...

's work Tambuco for percussion ensemble.

Tambuco has played on three continents, has received many awards worldwide, and has collaborated with composers such as Keiko Abe

Keiko Abe

is a Japanese composer and marimba player. She has been a primary figure in the development of the marimba, in terms of expanding both technique and repertoire, and through her collaboration with the Yamaha musical instrument company, developed the modern five-octave concert marimba.- Biography...

, Glen Vélez

Glen Velez

Glen Velez is an American percussionist, vocalist, and composer, specializing in frame drums from around the world. He is largely responsible for the increasing popularity of frame drums in the United States and around the world....

, Michael Nyman

Michael Nyman

Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...

, Steward Copeland, Valerie Naranjo, Robert Van Sice

Robert van Sice

Robert van Sice is an American percussionist and marimba player. He has toured and recorded extensively, currently teaches at the Yale School of Music and the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and was recently invited to join the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music...

, Celso Machado

Celso Machado

Celso Machado is a Brazilian world music guitarist, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist who lives in Vancouver, Canada. For over forty years he has performed on concert stages throughout Brazil, Western Europe and Canada, as well as in the United States...

, Enrique Diemecke

Enrique Diemecke

Enrique Arturo Diemecke is a Mexican conductor, violinist and composer of German descent. He comes from a family of musicians of Leipzig. He began to play the violin at six and studied in the Catholic University in Washington D.C and in Pierre Monteaux School under Charles Bruck. Then he studied...

 and Eduardo Mata

Eduardo Mata

Eduardo Mata was a Mexican conductor and composer.Mata was born in Mexico City. He studied guitar privately for three years before enrolling in the National Conservatory of Music. From 1960 to 1963 he studied composition under Carlos Chávez, Héctor Quintanar and Julián Orbón. In 1964 he received a...

, who worked with Tambuco to record the percussion works of Carlos Chávez

Carlos Chávez

Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six Symphonies, his Symphony No...

 for Dorian Recordings label.

Tambuco has a repertoire ranging from structuralist

Structuralism

Structuralism originated in the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and the subsequent Prague and Moscow schools of linguistics. Just as structural linguistics was facing serious challenges from the likes of Noam Chomsky and thus fading in importance in linguistics, structuralism...

 percussion music to a wide range of ethnic drum music and avant garde

Avant-garde music

Avant-garde music is a term used to characterize music which is thought to be ahead of its time, i.e. containing innovative elements or fusing different genres....

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