Akros Percussion Collective
"Musik im Bauch"
Focus Day Performance
Thursday, 5:00 p.m.

The Akros Percussion Collective is a gathering of percussionists dedicated to the post-Ionisation aesthetic sensibilities of new percussion music. Founded in 2006, the collective has collaborated with such luminaries as Julio Estrada, John Luther Adams, Phil Corner, and Stuart Saunders Smith, presenting works by these composers in such unexpected, yet ultimately re-connective sites as a former ice and coal complex and a meadow in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The group will be making its international debut next May at the 2011 Blurred Edges festival in Hamburg, Germany. Members include Gustavo Aguilar, Matt Dudack, Kevin Lewis, Jeff Neitzke, Bill Sallak, and Chris Vandall.