David Shively, percussion
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David Shively has appeared as soloist and chamber musician throughout North America and Europe. As a performer on instruments ranging from traditional percussion to Hungarian cimbalom to microtonal inventions, he has collaborated with artists across a broad scope of contemporary music contexts. A member of Ethos Percussion Group since 2005, with whom he tours nationwide, he is also the co-director of Either/Or, a New York-based experimental music ensemble. Guest appearances include Collegium Novum Zürich, Del Sol Quartet, Gruppe für neue Musik Baden, and ICE, as well as solo performances for Other Minds 13 (San Francisco), Wittner Tage für neue Kammermusik (Witten), ICMC (Thessaloniki), and Schwerpunkt: Strom! (Zürich). Stage musician credits include Pnima... ins innere (München, Stuttgart) and The Persians (National Actors' Theatre). He has recorded for CRI, Einstein, Mode, New World, Quecksilber, Traditional Crossroads, Tzadik, and other labels in addition to numerous works for film and radio broadcast.