Timpani and Percussion

For the past 30 years Ed Cervenka has pursued a busy freelance career as a Timpanist and Percussionist working with orchestras all over the UK, often as Guest Principal, including BBC Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, RLPO, Manchester Camerata, Hallé Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia and CBSO. He has played under many of the world's leading conductors including Valery Gergiev, Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Simon Rattle, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Andrew Davis, Leonard Slatkin, Martyn Brabbins, Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir Charles Mackerras, Esa Pekka Salonen, Sir Mark Elder, Vladimir Jurowski, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Sakari Oramo and Andris Nelsons. His playing has taken him all over Europe, to the USA and to Asia.

Percussion Orchestrations

In 2004 Ed founded the Percussion Orchestrations website at www.percussionorchestrations.com, a database of Timpani and Percussion requirements for orchestral, operatic and contemporary repertoire. Now with over 10000 works, all broken down into individual movements, and including pdf parts for over 2000 works, a percussion dictionary, programme planner, scheduler, and a list of works which don't require percussion, the website is used by hundreds of orchestras and percussionists all over the world.