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Sandbox Percussion’s 2021 album Seven Pillars was nominated for two GRAMMY® awards — Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance and Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Sandbox Percussion will perform Seven Pillars over 15 times in the 2022-23 season, with sold-out stops throughout the United States and Europe. In October, Sandbox Percussion will perform the work live with the LA Dance Project and choreographer Benjamin Millepied at the Théatre du Chatelet in Paris. Sandbox Percussion endorses Pearl/Adams musical instruments, Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth sticks and mallets, Remo drumheads, and Black Swamp accessories.

Nelson Padgett enjoys a multifaceted career as a soloist and collaborator. He has appeared with the Houston, National, and North Carolina Symphonies, and his many awards include a silver medal at the William Kapell International Competition and a Beethoven Fellowship from the American Pianists Association. A former student of Leon Fleisher, he has toured the world with the Philip Glass Ensemble for over thirty years. Specializing in collaboration with string players, he has given recitals with renowned violinists such as Pamela Frank and Elmar Oliveira, and has been an official pianist at the Meadowmount School of Music, the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, and the Cooper International Violin Competition. A native of North Carolina, Mr. Padgett has lived in New York City since 1987, and spends most of his time playing with string students at Juilliard and New York University. Margaret Kampmeier enjoys a varied career as soloist, collaborative pianist, and educator. Equally fluent in classical and contemporary repertoire, she has concertized and recorded extensively. She has performed with the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic Ensembles, Kronos Quartet, and Mirror Visions Ensemble. As orchestral keyboardist, she performs regularly with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and has subbed in the New York Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, and Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. She co-founded New Millennium Ensemble, a new music sextet that won the 1995 Naumburg chamber award. She has performed and recorded hundreds of new works, and can be heard on the Albany, Centaur, CRI, Koch, Nonesuch, and Bridge labels. Ms. Kampmeier teaches piano and chamber music at Princeton University and has been Chair of Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary PerformanceProgram since 2014. Ms. Kampmeier is deeply grateful for the shared wisdom of her mentors, Barry Snyder, Jan Degaetani, Julius Levine, and Gilbert Kalish.