Heartland Marimba Performs at Midwest Arts Expo 2025

HM Personnel:

Matthew Coley, Executive/Co-Artistic Dir./Artist
Jenni Brandon Co-Artistic Dir./Composer
Hunter Gross, Artist
Nathaniel Holman, Artist
Eri Isomura, Artist
Sophia Lo, Artist
Ryan Pearson, Artist
Marco Schirripa, Artist & Composer

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Heartland Marimba supports and celebrates the classical marimba/keyboard percussion art form through regular, annual engagements and touring. Their steady commitment benefits performers, students, communities, and composers. With a multifaceted model, HM produces and presents a multitude of events each season. The organization has an artist roster of some of the most dynamic performers on the scene today, which facilitates engagements for the HMQuartet and the HMEnsemble. HM has performed with the Cheyenne Symphony and Dubuque Symphony Orchestras, has been featured twice at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the Stuttgart World Marimba Competition, and the Canadian Percussion Network Conference, and maintains a vibrant annual schedule touring the nation. In addition, HM publishes music with more than 85 titles, including the well-respected books “Miniature Creations” etude book, “Opinions on the Marimba” interview book, and “Vessels of Song,” a Klezmer research and mallet ensemble book. HM will begin its 11th season, “Echoes and Evolution,” with a performance in Canada, a collaboration with the Iowa Composers Forum, and additional touring in the Midwest. The season continues with ten more tours, which include several firsts for the company, such as a performance featuring 100 singers, a guest appearance at the National Music Museum, and hosting the Musser Marimba Festival in Pennsylvania.

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“The audience, the orchestra musicians, and I absolutely adored their musicianship, virtuosity, precise ensemble, and their thrilling visual and aural presentation. It was a one-of-a-kind experience, and audience members gave them two standing ovations at each performance. Patrons also immediately contacted me insisting that we hire them as soloists again soon."  

–William Intriligator, Conductor and Music Director, Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, June 2021

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"The Heartland Marimba Quartet is a fabulous ensemble. [They] perform with arresting and virtuoso precision. This unanimity of execution extends not only to the articulation of the various pitches and rhythms, but to the broad palette of dynamics and colors they explore, all couched in a marvelous plasticity of phrasing."  

–Ken Meltzer, Fanfare, March 2020

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CONTACT:

phone: 847-867-1467

email: celebrate@heartlandmarimba.com  

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Waterloo, Iowa 50704

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