Metropolis Ensemble’s KEXP Debut
PRESS RELEASE
June 17, 2026
KEXP presents Metropolis Ensemble, Erik Hall & Sandbox Percussion performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded April 10, 2026.
We're thrilled to share our first-ever appearance on KEXP — Metropolis Ensemble, Erik Hall, and Sandbox Percussion, performing Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato live in the KEXP studio. The large-ensemble arrangement was shaped in part by Metropolis's own David Leon, a key arranger on the project, who also performs in it.
For the uninitiated: KEXP is the legendary Seattle public radio station whose in-studio "Live on KEXP" sessions have become a global rite of passage for artists, watched by millions on YouTube and beloved for their pristine sound and intimate capture of musicians at their best. For a new-music collaboration like ours to be invited into that room — and to fill it with the hypnotic, hour-spanning pulse of Canto Ostinato — is a genuine milestone.
The Seattle stop was part of a larger West Coast arc for the project, which also traveled to Emerald City Music, the adventurous chamber series led by violinist and artistic director Kristin Lee — herself one of the violinists on the Canto Ostinato recording.
Erik Hall - Piano
Ian Rosenbaum - Marimba
Terry Sweeney - Marimba
Jonny Allen - Vibraphone
Victor Caccese - Vibraphone
Kristin Lee - Violin
David Leon - Woodwinds
Host: Alex Ruder
Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs & Jon Roberts
Audio Mixer: Kevin Suggs
Mastering Engineer: Matt Ogaz
