PASIC 2007 Program - Percussive Arts Society

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pas president’s welcome ... 4
special thanks ... 6
exhibitors by name ... 8
exhibit hall map ... 9
exhibitors by category ... 12
exhibitor company descriptions ... 16
sponsors ... 32
area map and restaurant guide ... 36
convention center map ... 38
wednesday, october 31 schedule of events ... 40
thursday, november 1 schedule of events ... 42
friday, november 2 schedule of events ... 46
saturday, november 3 schedule of events ... 50
artists and clinicians bios ... 56
percussive arts society history ... 100
pasic 2007 advertisers ... 104
pas president’s welcome
I
t is an honor
for me, as
your PAS
President, to
welcome you
to Columbus,
Ohio and our
32nd Percussive Arts
Society International Convention. PASIC 2007 is
a celebration of 46 years of PAS and
is the fifth time we have held our
annual convention in Columbus with
previous years being 1993, 1999,
2002 and 2005. Each time, Columbus
has proven to be a tremendously
welcoming city with excellent event
facilities for our unique convention.
Again this year, the lineup of worldclass artists, clinicians, workshops,
exhibits, meetings, performances,
and concerts promises to provide
memorable experiences for all attending and participating.
PAS is about community and there
is no greater community of percussion and drumming enthusiasts
than you’ll find at a PASIC. As we
come together these four days to
share our music and friendship it is
important to recognize those who
make YOUR PASIC the greatest percussion event in the world. PASIC
wouldn’t be possible without the
tireless efforts of Jeff Hartsough,
PAS Director of Event Production
& Marketing and Cory Cisler, PAS
Program and Events Manager and
their staff. These individuals work
with the PAS Executive Committee
and Executive Director Michael
Kenyon and his staff in Indianapolis
to create a vision for each PASIC
from the hundreds of applications
and incredible proposals for PASIC
sessions received from individuals,
groups, companies and PAS Committees. After months of refining and
planning they eventually implement
this vision at PASIC through the dili
gent work of the many volunteers on
the PASIC Logistics Team who make
each year’s PASIC a greater success. Please share your appreciation
with these individuals if you have the
opportunity at PASIC 2007.
Support of this vision is critical
and the many percussion companies and manufacturers who are
PAS Sustaining Members dedicate
great amounts of time, energy, and
money investing in PAS and PASIC.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
and our entire membership I want to
acknowledge and thank these Sustaining Members for their support
and sponsorship, as well as the hundreds of exhibitors who transform
the exhibit halls into the International
Drum and Percussion Expo. Be sure
to plan your days to visit the exhibit
halls where you’ll experience the
largest collections of new instruments, music and products ever
assembled. Please take a moment
to thank these sponsors and exhibitors for providing so many wonderful
opportunities for your enrichment at
PASIC.
Lastly, I want to thank you, the
members of PAS, and the many
PASIC participants and attendees
for making PASIC the unique experience it is. PASIC is a time and place
for sharing of concepts and ideas
with our colleagues, to renew old
friendships and make new ones, to
become more involved in PAS and
the world of percussion and to be
renewed and inspired by new products, publications, provocative thinking and ideas, and the incredible
artistry of our greatest performers.
I hope you will enjoy and celebrate
YOUR unique community at PASIC
2007!
Gary Cook
PAS President
percussive arts society
board of directors
executive committee
President Gary Cook
President-elect Steve Houghton
Vice President Lisa Rogers
Secretary John R. Beck
Treasurer Steve Beck
Immediate Past President Rich Holly
Executive Director Michael Kenyon
DIRECTORS
Timothy K. Adams . Keith Aleo
Anders åstrand . Michael Balter
George Barrett . Michael Burritt
Ruth Cahn . Julie Davila
Christopher Deane . Peter Erskine
Vic Firth . Gary France
Julia Gaines . Lynn Glassock
Neil Grover . Bret Kuhn
Frederic Macarez . William Moersch
Daniel Moore . Emil Richards
David Samuels . Ed Shaughnessy
Alison Shaw . Andy Zildjian
COUNCIL OF Past Presidents
Mark Ford (2003–2004)
James Campbell (2001–2002)
Robert Breithaupt (1999–2000)
Genaro Gonzalez (1997–98)
Garwood Whaley (1993–96)
Robert Schietroma (1991–92)
John Beck (1987–90)
Thomas Siwe (1984–86)
James Petercsak (1978–81)
Gary Olmstead (1973–77)
Gordon Peters (1964–67)
Donald Canedy (1961–63)
percussive arts society staff
Executive Director Michael Kenyon
Director of Event Production
& Marketing Jeff Hartsough
Marketing and Communications Director
Jon Feustel
Museum Curator/Librarian Otice Sircy
Membership Development Manager Jim Gratner
Program and Events Manager Cory Cisler
Administrative Coordinator Toni McNalley
Administrative Assistant Lynna Mills
Publications Editor Rick Mattingly
Graphic Designer Hillary Henry
Support Services Larry Moore
Intern Kelly Strait
PAS HISTORIANS
Lisa Rogers and James Strain
welcome message
special thanks
donations to
the 2007 logistics
incentives program
Michael Bump
Focus Day
Kelly Strait
PAS Intern
Aaron Bishara
Nick Fielder Ryan Lassiter
Logistics Managers
Jeff Piper
Rob Birenbaum Ray Fransen
Drumset Logistics
Michael Borne
Bryan Stone
Ric Cassity Tony Cooper
All Star Audio
Robert DeMattina Andrew Guinn PASIC Photographers
Nathan Shireman
Hughies Video
Lisa Rogers
PASIC Program
Eddye & Hossein Moini Adventure Travel
Terry Walburn Phyllis Smith Geo Fern Co.
Joe Shaw and Sherry Fish Greater Columbus Convention Center
Nancy Morris, Kelly Szoke, and Valerie Gillespie Hyatt Regency Columbus
ALFRED PUBLISHING CO.—Six $50 Gift
Certificates for any Alfred PASIC Booth
Merchandise
Avedis Zildjian Company—Any Two
Cymbals from the Zildjian Booth
Ddrum—7x13 Snow Sparkle Snare Drum
(maple shell, die cast hoops)
DRUM WORKSHOP, INC.—DW Vintage
Brass 6.5 x 14 Snare Drum with Chrome
Hardware
Evans Drumheads—Five Drumhead Tom
Packs
Hammerax— One Limited Edition Glass
Instrument; Three John Stannard cds; One
Hammerax T-shirt
Innovative Percussion—One FP3 College Primer Pack: Contains: 1 - MB-1; 1 pair
CT-3 Timpani mallets; 2 pairs IP240 marimba
mallets; 2 pairs RS251 vibe mallets; 1 pair
IP902 xylo/bell mallets; 1 pair IP906 xylo/bell
mallets; 1 pair IP-JC concert snare sticks
Media Press, Inc.—One $50 gift certificate
Mountain Rythym/Dream Cymbals—
22” Bliss Crash/Ride Cymbal
Pearl Corporation—One P2002PB
Double Pedal; One S1330B Snare Drum
13”x3
Per-Mus Publications—$30.00 worth of
free music from Per-Mus Publications
Power Wrist Builders—One pair of
Power Wrist Builders
PRO-MARK CORPORATION— One $200 Gift
Certificate.
Regal Tip/Calato Mfg.—Regal Tip Stick
Bag with Sticks, Brushes, Mallets and
Specialty Sticks
Remo, Inc.—Leon Mobley Djembe, Plus
Djembe Bag
Samson—One H2 Handy Recorder (portable digital recorder)
smith publications—One $60 Gift
Certificate for any Smith Publications PASIC
Booth Merchandise.
Upbeat Music Publications—
$400.00 Gift Certificate to purchase sheet
music from Upbeat Music Publications
Winter Guard International—One set
of three 2007 Percussion World Championship DVDs
exhibitors by name
Alesis LLC ...............................................................328
Alfonce Production . ...............................................67
Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. .....................................12
Alternate Mode, Inc. .........................................104Q
Avedis Zildjian Company ..........801, Literature Bin
Bachovich Music Publications . ...........................50
Bands of America .................................................731
Beall Percussion Specialties . ..............................50
Beat of the Drum Industries, Inc. .......................630
Beatnik Rhymic Analyzer . ...................................100
Bergerault USA, Professional Division,
Peripole-Bergerault, Inc. . ...................................1
Berklee College of Music ......................................68
Black Swamp Percussion ...................................226
Bosphorus Cymbals . ............................................726
C. Alan Publications ...............................................39
California Percussion LLC ...................................127
Cappello Music Co., Inc. . ....................................429
Carl Fischer Music . ............................................1015
Chops Percussion . ...............................................601
Coe Percussion .......................................................48
Columbus Pro Percussion ...................................919
Cooperman Company . .......................................1023
DDrum .....................................................................329
DeMorrow Instruments, Ltd. . ...............................29
DownBeat Magazine . .......................Literature Bin
drop6 media, Inc. ....................................................30
Drum Corps International ......................................90
Drumhead Magazine............................... Literature Bin
Drum Workshop, Inc. ...........................................419
Drummers for Jesus Int’l. .................................101Q
Drumwind (Woodwind & Brasswind) . ..............230
Duratech/Players Music Accessories ..............128
Dynasty USA/DEG Music Products, Inc. . .........501
Encore Mallets, Inc. ...............................................33
Equilibrium ...............................................................55
Evans Drumheads .................................................113
Fall Creek Marimbas ..............................................45
Fork’s Drum Closet ..............................................1005
Fred J Miller, Inc. ..................................................431
General Washington Drum Shop .........................77
Global Percussion Trio ...........................................89
GP Percussion .......................................................103
Grover Pro Percussion, Inc. . ................................92
Guitar Center .........................................................926
Hal Leonard Corporation .......................................22
Hamilton Stands, Inc. ...........................................330
Hammerax ..............................................................526
HoneyRock Publishing ...........................................44
HORNETS Drumsticks ..........................................531
Hudson Music LLC ..................................................22
Humes & Berg Mfg. Co., Inc. ............................1005
Innovative Percussion, Inc. . .................................23
Japan Percussion Center
(Komaki Music, Inc.) . .......................................327
JazzTimes, Inc.......................................... Literature Bin
JC’S Drummin Music Center . .............................628
Joyful Noise Drum Company ..............................729
Kalimba Magic ......................................................105
Kaman Music Corporation ..................................513
The KikBrik ..................................................................919
Kori Percussion / Custom Music Co. ...................57
Kyle Dunleavy Steel Drums . ...............................426
Latin Percussion ...................................................117
Lawrence University–Conservatory of Music ...71
Lehman College........................................................95
Lone Star Percussion . .........................................122
Ludwig & Musser a division of
Conn-Selmer, Inc. ..............................................701
Mallet Jack ..............................................................93
Malletech/Mostly Marimba ..................................16
MalletWorks/ComposersWorks ...........................53
Mapex USA, Inc. ...................................................719
Marimba One ...........................................................34
Media Press, Inc. ....................................................79
Meinl USA ..............................................................413
Mel Bay Publications, Inc. ....................................82
Meredith Music Publications ...............................22
Mike Balter Mallets ..............................................913
Modern Drummer Publications, Inc. ...................74
Mountain Rythym, Inc. .......................................1029
Musicians Institute . .............................................626
MusicTime, Inc. .......................................................15
New York University Classical
Percussion Studio . .............................................97
Noble & Cooley Co. . ..................................................919
Oberlin Conservatory of Music . ...........................81
Paiste America, Inc. .............................................613
Pan Press Inc ..........................................................69
Panyard, Inc. . ......................................................1026
Passaris Percussion . ...........................................126
Peace Musical Company . ...................................326
Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical
Instruments ........................................................301
Per-Mus Publications, Inc. . ..................................85
Pioneer Valley Imports . .......................................529
Power Wrist Builders ...........................................727
Premier Percussion, Ltd. .....................................813
Professional Percussion Products ......................78
Pro-Mark Corporation . ................................ 619/627
Randall May International, Inc. ........................1011
RAWI Percussion Publications ............................83
Regal Tip / Calato Mfg. .......................................1001
Remo, Inc. ..............................................................201
Reunion Blues .........................................................91
Rhythm Source . ......................................................75
Robert King Music Sales, Inc. ..............................87
Roland Corporation US ................................ 517/527
Ross Mallet Instruments /
Majestic Percussion ........................................819
Row-Loff Productions ............................................61
Sabian, Ltd. ............................................................401
Salazar Fine Tuning ................................................54
Sam Ash Music Corp . ..........................................104
Samson Technologies ............................................64
School Band & Orchestra ..................... Literature Bin
Sibelius USA ............................................................58
SKB Corporation .................................................1019
SmartMusic and Finale . ...................................100Q
Smith Publications . ................................................65
Solomon Steel Pan Company . ............................730
Stagg Cymbals (EMD Music, Inc.) .....................106
Stern Tanning Co., Inc. ...........................................70
Steve Weiss Music . .............................................110
Tama Drums ...........................................................219
Tapspace Publications . .........................................58
The Collective ........................................................631
The Percussion Source .......................................826
ThunderEcho™ Drum Co. ....................................427
Toca Percussion–A Kaman Music
Company . ...........................................................118
Trick Percussion Products, Inc. .........................130
Trinidad & Tobago Instruments Limited ............430
Tycoon Percussion ...............................................213
UPbeat Music Publications . .................................73
US Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps ...........99
Vater Percussion, Inc. . ........................................927
Vaughncraft Percussion ........................................72
Vic Firth, Inc. ..........................................................319
Wernick Musical Instruments ................................5
WGI Sport of the Arts . ...........................................86
Xymox Percussion...................................................49
Yamaha Corporation of America
Pro Audio & Combo ..........................................101
Band and Orchestral Division . ...........................6
exhibitors
exhibit hall map
ENTRANCE/EXIT
exhibit hall map
hours
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
thursday–saturday
ENTRANCE/EXIT
exhibitors by category
Accessories
Avedis Zildjian Company ........................................ 801
Beall Percussion Specialties . ................................. 50
Beat of the Drum Industries, Inc. .......................... 630
Beatnik Rhymic Analyzer . ...................................... 100
Duratech/Players Music Accessories ................. 128
Dynasty USA/DEG Music Products, Inc. . ............ 501
Equilibrium .................................................................. 55
Evans Drumheads .................................................... 113
Grover Pro Percussion, Inc. . ................................... 92
Hamilton Stands, Inc. .............................................. 330
Hammerax ................................................................. 526
Humes & Berg Mfg. Co., Inc. ............................... 1005
Joyful Noise Drum Company ................................. 729
The KikBrik ................................................................ 919
Peace Musical Company . ...................................... 326
Pearl Corporation and Adams
Musical Instruments ........................................... 301
Professional Percussion Products ......................... 78
Remo, Inc. ................................................................. 201
Rhythm Source . ......................................................... 75
Trick Percussion Products, Inc. ............................ 130
Trinidad & Tobago Instruments Limited ............... 430
Tycoon Percussion .................................................. 213
Vater Percussion, Inc. . ........................................... 927
Yamaha Corporation of America .......................6 /101
Audio/Video Publisher
Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. ........................................ 12
Bachovich Music Publications . .............................. 50
Carl Fischer Music . ............................................... 1015
Equilibrium .................................................................. 55
Global Percussion Trio .............................................. 89
Hal Leonard Corporation .......................................... 22
Hudson Music LLC ..................................................... 22
MalletWorks/ComposersWorks .............................. 53
MusicTime, Inc. .......................................................... 15
RAWI Percussion Publications ............................... 83
Band/Orchestral
Black Swamp Percussion ...................................... 226
Cooperman Company . .......................................... 1023
Equilibrium .................................................................. 55
Evans Drumheads .................................................... 113
Conn-Selmer, Inc. ................................................ 701
Malletech/Mostly Marimba ..................................... 16
Premier Percussion, Ltd. ........................................ 813
Remo, Inc. ................................................................. 201
Ross Mallet Instruments/
Majestic Percussion ........................................... 819
ThunderEcho™ Drum Co. ....................................... 427
Vaughncraft Percussion ........................................... 72
Yamaha Corporation of America ........................6/101
Cases
Equilibrium .................................................................. 55
Humes & Berg Mfg. Co., Inc. ............................... 1005
Kyle Dunleavy Steel Drums . .................................. 426
Reunion Blues ............................................................ 91
SKB Corporation .................................................... 1019
12
Stagg Cymbals (EMD Music, Inc.) ........................ 106
Custom Drums
DDrum ........................................................................ 329
Drum Workshop, Inc. .............................................. 419
General Washington Drum Shop ............................ 77
Passaris Percussion . .............................................. 126
ThunderEcho™ Drum Co. ....................................... 427
Cymbals
Bosphorus Cymbals . ............................................... 726
Hammerax ................................................................. 526
Meinl USA ................................................................. 413
Mountain Rythym, Inc. .......................................... 1029
Paiste America, Inc. ................................................ 613
Sabian, Ltd. ............................................................... 401
Stagg Cymbals (EMD Music, Inc.) ........................ 106
Drum Heads
Evans Drumheads .................................................... 113
Remo, Inc. ................................................................. 201
Stern Tanning Co., Inc. .............................................. 70
Drum Pads
DDrum ........................................................................ 329
Evans Drumheads .................................................... 113
Passaris Percussion . .............................................. 126
Remo, Inc. ................................................................. 201
Xymox Percussion.................................................49
Drumsets
Cappello Music Co., Inc. . ....................................... 429
DDrum ........................................................................ 329
Kaman Music Corporation ..................................... 513
Conn-Selmer, Inc. ................................................ 701
Mapex USA, Inc. ...................................................... 719
Noble & Cooley Co. . ................................................ 919
Remo, Inc. ................................................................. 201
Tama Drums .............................................................. 219
Electronic Percussion
Alesis LLC .................................................................. 328
Alternate Mode, Inc. ............................................ 104Q
DDrum ........................................................................ 329
Rhythm Source . ......................................................... 75
Roland Corporation US ....................................517/527
Wernick Musical Instruments ................................... 5
Hardware
Beat of the Drum Industries, Inc. .......................... 630
DDrum ........................................................................ 329
Equilibrium .................................................................. 55
Kaman Music Corporation ..................................... 513
Conn-Selmer, Inc. ................................................ 701
Mallet Jack ................................................................. 93
Mapex USA, Inc. ...................................................... 719
Randall May International, Inc. ........................... 1011
Remo, Inc. ................................................................. 201
Tama Drums .............................................................. 219
Keyboard Percussion
Peripole-Bergerault, Inc. . ...................................... 1
Coe Percussion .......................................................... 48
DeMorrow Instruments, Ltd. . .................................. 29
Fall Creek Marimbas ................................................. 45
Kori Percussion / Custom Music Co. ...................... 57
Conn-Selmer, Inc. ................................................ 701
Mallet Jack ................................................................. 93
Marimba One .............................................................. 34
Ross Mallet Instruments / Majestic Percussion 819
Salazar Fine Tuning ................................................... 54
LITERATURE BINS
Avedis Zildjian Company
DownBeat Magazine
Drumhead Magazine
JazzTimes, Inc.
School Band & Orchestra
Marching Percussion
Cappello Music Co., Inc. . ....................................... 429
Evans Drumheads .................................................... 113
Hammerax ................................................................. 526
Conn-Selmer, Inc. ................................................ 701
Remo, Inc. ................................................................. 201
Majestic Percussion ........................................... 819
exhibitors
Music Notation Software
Sibelius USA ............................................................... 58
SmartMusic and Finale . ...................................... 100Q
Tapspace Publications . ............................................ 58
other
Fred J Miller, Inc. ..................................................... 431
Uniforms
Percussion Retail
California Percussion LLC ...................................... 127
Chops Percussion . .................................................. 601
Columbus Pro Percussion ...................................... 919
Drumwind (Woodwind & Brasswind) . ................. 230
Fork’s Drum Closet ................................................. 1005
Guitar Center ............................................................ 926
Japan Percussion Center
(Komaki Music, Inc.) . .......................................... 327
JC’S Drummin Music Center . ................................ 628
Kalimba Magic ......................................................... 105
Lone Star Percussion . ............................................ 122
Pioneer Valley Imports . .......................................... 529
Sam Ash Music Corp . ............................................. 104
Steve Weiss Music . ................................................ 110
The Percussion Source .......................................... 826
Print Publisher
Alfonce Production . .................................................. 67
Bachovich Music Publications . .............................. 50
C. Alan Publications .................................................. 39
Carl Fischer Music . ............................................... 1015
drop6 media, Inc. ....................................................... 30
GP Percussion .......................................................... 103
Hal Leonard Corporation .......................................... 22
HoneyRock Publishing .............................................. 44
Innovative Percussion, Inc. . .................................... 23
MalletWorks/ComposersWorks .............................. 53
Media Press, Inc. ....................................................... 79
Mel Bay Publications, Inc. ....................................... 82
Meredith Music Publications .................................. 22
Modern Drummer Publications, Inc. ...................... 74
MusicTime, Inc. .......................................................... 15
Oberlin Conservatory of Music . .............................. 81
Pan Press, Inc. ........................................................... 69
Per-Mus Publications, Inc. . ..................................... 85
Robert King Music Sales, Inc. ................................. 87
Row-Loff Productions ............................................... 61
Smith Publications . ................................................... 65
Tapspace Publications . ............................................ 58
UPbeat Music Publications . .................................... 73
Repair, Tuning, Rental
Columbus Pro Percussion ...................................... 919
Fall Creek Marimbas ................................................. 45
Schools/Organizations
Bands of America .................................................... 731
Berklee College of Music ......................................... 68
Drum Corps International ......................................... 90
Drummers for Jesus Int’l. .................................... 101Q
Lawrence University–Conservatory of Music ...... 71
Lehman College........................................................... 95
Musicians Institute . ................................................ 626
New York University Classical
Percussion Studio . ................................................ 97
Oberlin Conservatory of Music . .............................. 81
The Collective ........................................................... 631
exhibitors
13
US Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps .............. 99
WGI Sport of the Arts . .............................................. 86
Sound Equipment
Samson Technologies ............................................... 64
Steel Drum
Panyard, Inc. . ......................................................... 1026
Solomon Steel Pan Company . ............................... 730
Sticks and Mallets
Black Swamp Percussion ...................................... 226
Cooperman Company . ............................................ 102
Duratech/Players Music Accessories ................. 128
Encore Mallets, Inc. .................................................. 33
14
Equilibrium .................................................................. 55
HORNETS Drumsticks ............................................. 531
Innovative Percussion, Inc. . .................................... 23
Conn-Selmer, Inc. ................................................ 701
Marimba One .............................................................. 34
Mike Balter Mallets ................................................. 913
Power Wrist Builders .............................................. 727
Pro-Mark Corporation . ....................................619/627
Regal Tip/Calato Mfg. ............................................ 1001
Vater Percussion, Inc. . ........................................... 927
Vic Firth, Inc. ............................................................. 319
Vintage
World Percussion
Peripole-Bergerault, Inc. . ...................................... 1
Evans Drumheads .................................................... 113
Latin Percussion ...................................................... 117
Meinl USA ................................................................. 413
Mountain Rythym, Inc. .......................................... 1029
Remo, Inc. ................................................................. 201
Rhythm Source . ......................................................... 75
Toca Percussion—A Kaman Music Company . .. 118
Vaughncraft Percussion ........................................... 72
exhibitors
exhibitors
Alesis LLC
200 Scenic View Drive
Cumberland, RI 02864
Phone: 401-658-5760 Fax: 401-658-3640
E-mail: info@alesis.com
Web: www.alesis.com
Alesis electronic percussion gear.
731
328 Bands of America
39 W. Jackson Place, Suite 150
Indianapolis, IN 46225
Phone: 317-636-2263 Fax: 317-524-6200
E-mail: info@musicforall.org
Web: www.musicforall.org
Student & director workshops for band &
orchestra, concert band & orchestra festivals,
67 marching band championships plus research &
advocacy to provide music for all.
Berklee College of Music
68
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-747-2372 Fax: 617-747-2047
E-mail: jallwood@berklee.edu
Web: www.berklee.edu
More than a college, Berklee has become the
world’s singular learning lab for the music of
today—and tomorrow. We are pioneering,
open, professional, and passionate.
Beall Percussion Specialties
50
35 Tappan Street, Suite 2
Melrose, MA 02176
Phone: 617-785-8023 Fax: 614-457-6628
E-mail: orders@beallpercussion.com
Web: www.beallpercussion.com
12 Beall Percussion Specialties is your home for
unique percussion instruments, accessories,
and mallets! Order through our website www.
beallpercussion.com or from percussion
retailers worldwide.
Black Swamp Percussion
226
11114 James Street
Zeeland, MI 49464
Phone: 616-879-0066 Fax: 616-879-0068
E-mail: info@blackswamp.com
Web: www.blackswamp.com
Orchestral and field drums, tambourines, Inaki
Sebastian keyboard mallets, castanets, timpani
mallets, triangles, woodblocks, cases,
accessories.
Alfonce Production
1 Rue Gilbert Norel
Clermont-Ferrand 63000 France
Phone: 334 73142880 Fax: 334 73917756
E-mail: info@alfonce-production.com
Web: www.alfonce-production.com
French publisher for percussion music
including solos, ensemble, chamber, concerto.
Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.
P.O. Box 10003
Van Nuys, CA 91410
Phone: 818-891-5999 Fax: 818-891-2369
E-mail: customerservice@Alfred.com
Web: www.alfred.com
With 50,000+ titles in circulation, Alfred is the
world’s largest educational music publisher.
Brands/distribution include: Belwin, Suzuki,
Expressions Curriculum, Kalmus, Faber, Dover
and more.
Alternate Mode, Inc.
53 First Avenue
Chicopee, MA 01020
Phone: 413-594-5190 Fax: 413-592-7987
E-mail: katsales@alternatemode.com
Web: www.AlternateMode.com
The complete line of KAT midi mallet and
percussion controllers.
Beat of the Drum Industries, Inc.
630
4047 Mclean Drive
Cincinatti, OH 45255
Phone: 513-528-3786
E-mail: emonk@cinci.rr.com
Web: www.rockdrumming.com
104Q SPIDER Cowbells & Hardware, Makin’ Music
Book Series, Mr. Click CD, Metronome.
C. Alan Publications
P.O. Box 29323
100 Greensboro, NC 27429
Phone: 336-272-3920 Fax: 336-272-3988
E-mail: contact@c-alanpublications.com
Web: www.c-alanpublications.com
Publisher.
Beatnik Rhymic Analyzer
1321 Valwood Parkway, #440
Carrollton, TX 75006
Phone: 214-239-4005 Fax: 214-239-4006
E-mail: hello@tuners.com
Web: www.tuners.com/beatnik.asp
801 Featuring the NEW Beatnik Rhythmic Analyzer
22 Longwater Drive
Literature Bin RA1200p model. Five built-in analyzers
Norwell, MA 02061
evaluate and score rhythmic and timing
Phone: 781-871-2200 Fax: 781-871-3984
accuracy skill with precision to the nearest
Web: www.zildjian.com
512th note. Unconditional lifetime warranty.
A complete range of cymbals—plus drum1
sticks, accessories, and educational literature. Bergerault USA, Professional Division, Peripole-Bergerault, Inc.
Bachovich Music Publications
50 P.O. Box 12909
6908 Perry Drive
Salem, OR 97309
Worthington, OH 43085
Phone: 800-443-3592 Fax: 888-724-6733
Phone: 614-563-0707 Fax: 614-846-6866
E-mail: pro@BergeraultUSA.com
E-mail: orders@bachovich.com
Web: www.BergeraultUSA.com
Web: www.bachovich.com
Manufacturers and sole source vendor of
Extraordinary percussion literature for the 21st Bergerault professional mallet keyboard
century including orchestral, ensemble, recital, percussion instruments, Peripole Sienta Series
chamber, and solo works by composers from
World Drums for group percussion and
around the world.
Peripole Percussion by Toca.
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Bosphorus Cymbals
3939 Royal Drive, Suite 101
Kennesaw, GA 30144
Phone: 678-354-1060 Fax: 678-354-9300
E-mail: info@bosphoruscymbals.com
Web: www.bosphoruscymbals.com
Hand-crafted Turkish cymbals.
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California Percussion LLC
127
128 Starlite Street
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Phone: 800-871-4606 Fax: 650-871-4614
E-mail: info@californiapercussion.com
Web: www.californiapercussion.com
Specializing in instrument sales and rentals,
California Percussion also makes the Professional model David Herbert timpani mallets and
practice tools.
Cappello Music Co., Inc.
429
96 Rowley Road
Woodbury, CT 06798
Phone: 203-263-6329 Fax: 203-263-6329
E-mail: sales@cappellomusic.com
Web: www.trapsdrums.com
Traps Drums—portable acoustic and electronic drumsets. Marching Traps—light weight
marching drums.
exhibitors
Carl Fischer Music
1015
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212-777-0900 Fax: 212-477-6996
E-mail: loek@carlfischer.com
Web: www.carlfischer.com
Carl Fischer has a diversified catalog of
musical products including DVDs and compact
discs, as well as its traditional print music
products.
DeMorrow Instruments, Ltd.
29
1318 Center Street
Arkadelphia, AR 71923
Phone: 870-246-4010
E-mail: demorrow@arkansas.net
Web: www.demorrowinstruments.com
Handmade keyboard percussion instruments,
services include keyboard retuning, bar
replacement and refinishing, and keyboard
replacement. Ask about auxillary percussion
601 instruments.
Chops Percussion
5282 E. 65th Street
Phone: 877-900-3786 Fax: 317-570-4011
E-mail: chops@chopspercussion.com
Web: www.chopspercussion.com
Chops Percussion is an educational
percussion retailer run by educators. We
specialize in providing products, information
and support to all types of percussionists.
Coe Percussion
682 McDonnell Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32310
Phone: 850-228-6960 Fax: 850-242-2921
E-mail: matt@coepercussion.com
Web: www.coepercussion.com
Custom built marimbas and xylophones.
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DownBeat MagazineLiterature Bin
102 N. Haven Road
Elmhurst , IL 60126 USA
Phone: 630-941-2030 Fax: 630-941-3210
E-mail: kellyp@downbeat.com
Web: www.downbeat.com
Published since 1934, DownBeat has been
considered “The Bible of Jazz” for over 70
years.
drop6 media, Inc.
30
P.O. Box 81
Denton, TX 76202
Phone: 877-77drop6 Fax: 413-638-7564
E-mail: info@drop6.com
Web: www.drop6.com
Percussion ensemble publications,
919 compositions, classical, artists, marching and
steel band ensembles, instructional texts and
solos.
Columbus Pro Percussion
5052 North High Street
Columbus, OH 43214
Phone: 800-775-7372 Fax: 614-885-4761
Web: www.columbuspercussion.com
Pro shop carrying all major brands of combo,
concert, marching, world, and electronic
percussion. Also offering custom work, repairs,
and lessons.
Drumhead Magazine/ Literature Bin
PPV Media
36 W. 37th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018
Web: www.drumheadmag.com
Drumhead, comprised of print magazine, audio
1023 CD and website, is an indispensable tool helping drummers and percussionists to improve
and enhance their craft.
Cooperman Company
1007 Route 121
Bellows Falls, VT 05101
Phone: 802-463-9750 Fax: 802-463-4123
E-mail: info@cooperman.com
Web: www.cooperman.com
Hand crafted drums and sticks; Rope tension
snare and bass, frame drums, jingled drums,
bodhrans, persimmon and rosewood weight
and sound matched sticks, parts, repairs.
Drum Corps International
90
470 S. Irmen Drive
Addison, IL 60101
Phone: 630-628-7888 Fax: 630-628-7971
E-mail: dci@dci.org
Web: www.dci.org
Drum Corps International is the world leader
329 in producing and sanctioning competitive
marching music and related stadium events for
the world’s most elite and exclusive marching
music ensembles for students.
DDrum
4924 W. Waters Avenue
Tampa, FL 33634
Phone: 813-600-3920 Fax: 813-600-3933
E-mail: info@ddrum.com
Web: www.ddrum.com
DDrum presents the complete playing
spectrum for every drum set artist. Everything
from the beginning stages to hand-crafted
custom drums is readily available to the
drummer with an eye for quality.
Drum Workshop, Inc.
419
3450 Lunar Court
Oxnard, CA 93030
Phone: 805-485-6999 Fax: 805-485-1334
E-mail: info@dwdrums.com
Web: www.dwdrums.com
Drum Workshop, Inc. (DW) manufactures
custom, professional drums, pedals, and
hardware. DW is also home to Pacific Drums &
Percussion, Gon Bops, and “3” Drumsticks.
Drummers for Jesus Int’l.
101Q
109 Carrington Drive
Rockwall, TX 75032
Phone: 972-722-2493 Fax: 972-722-2561
E-mail: drummersforjesus2007@yahoo.com
Web: www.drummersforjesus.com
International organization of christian drummers and percussionists. Has yearly convention with top drum artists. International and
U.S. chapters. www.drummersforjesus.com.
Drumwind (Woodwind & Brasswind)
230
4004 Technology Drive
South Bend, IN 46628
Phone: 800-348-5003 Fax: 574-251-3501
E-mail: BCrise@wwbw.com
Web: www.woodwindbrasswind.com
Full line percussion dealer handling marching,
concert, combo and accessories. A division of
the band instrument company, The Woodwind
and Brasswind.
Duratech/Players Music Accessories
128
P.O. Box 9210
Mesa, AZ 85214
Phone: 480-833-2500 Fax: 480-833-2999
E-mail: sales@playersmusic.com
Web: www.playersmusic.com
Duratech Drum Sticks—the wood alternative—molded using a polymer formula. Solid
colors, pin stripes, rainbow, “neon” that glows
under black lights.
Dynasty USA/DEG Music Products, Inc. 501
P.O. Box 968
Lake Geneva, WI 53147
Phone: 262-248-8314 or 800-558-9416
Fax: 262-248-7953
E-mail: info@degmusic.com
Web: www.degmusic.com
Marching, concert percussion including timpani, keyboards, practice pads, accessories,
amplified speakers, sub woofers, microphones
and mixers.
Connecting you to the creativity of
the world’s top percussionists!
Solos, Duets, Trios, Quartets, Method Books, Timpani/Percussion with Tape
Percussion Ensemble, Concerti, Chamber Music with Percussion
CD’s, DVD’s, and more!
Composers ~ Arrangers ~ CD Artists
Duncan Patton
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Marc Damoulakis
Cleveland Orchestra
James Preiss
American Composers Orchestra
Javier Diaz
Broadway: Tarzan
Pablo Rieppi
Freelance Artist, New York
Doug Wallace
Freelance Artist, Wash. D.C.
Richard Grimes
Cordis, Cimbalom Master
Aaron Trant
Freelance Artist, Boston
Brian Mason
Morehead State University
Michael Eagle
Scottish/Celtic Arts
Joseph Pereira
New York Philharmonic
Jonathan Haas
Timpani Soloist
Charles Descarfino
Broadway: Les Miserables
Joseph Gramley
Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project
Joe Tompkins
Mayumi Sekizawa
International Marimba Soloist, Japan
Andrew Beall
Tom Hamilton
Composer, New York
Norman Grossman
Composer, New York
Steven Beall
Composer, Minnesota
. . . And more!
Connect with us at Booth 50-52
WWW.BACHOVICH.COM
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Encore Mallets, Inc.
33
438 Southfork Drive, Suite 101
Lewisville, TX 75057
Phone: 972-436-6963 Fax: 972-436-6963
E-mail: dan@encoremallets.com
Web: www.encoremallets.com
Nancy Zeltsman Series, Nanae Mimura
Series, Nanae Takada Concerto Mallets,
Bryan Carrott Vibe Mallets, Doug Walter Vibe
Mallets, Nick Petrella xylophone and
suspended cymbal mallets, gong mallets,
marching beaters.
Equilibrium
55
P.O. Box 305
Dexter, MI 48130
Phone: 734-426-5814
E-mail: equ@equilibri.com
Web: www.equilibri.com
Chromatic bass chimes, height adjustable tilting glockenspiel/xylophone stands, piccolo/
regular woodblocks, tuned log drums, bass
drum, mutes, magic flute, mallets, symphonic
road cases, CDs.
Evans Drumheads
113
595 Smith Street
Farmingdale, NY 11735
Phone: 631-439-3300 Fax: 631-439-3333
Web: www.evansdrumheads.com
Drumheads for drumset, Afro-Cuban, marching, and orchestral instruments. Percussion
accessories including ReelFeel Pratice Pads,
Sound-Off Drum Silencers, drum keys and
sound control devices.
Fall Creek Marimbas
45
1445 Upper Hill Road; P.O. Box 118
Middlesex, NY 14507
Phone: 585-554-4011 Fax: 585-554-4017
E-mail: bill@marimbas.com
Web: www.marimbas.com
Mallet instrument tuning, repair, restoration
and sales. Maker of K-100 Series and RT-1500
Series Glockenspiels.
exhibitors
Fork’s Drum Closet
1005
2701 12th Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37204
Phone: 615-383-8343 Fax: 615-269-0245
E-mail: info@forksdrumcloset.com
Web: www.forksdrumcloset.com
Retail drums, accessories, world percussion
instruments, cases and sticks.
Guitar Center
926
5795 Lindero Canyon Road
Westlake Village, CA 91362
Phone: 818-735-8888 Fax: 818-889-8475
Web: www.guitarcenter.com
Drums, percussion, accessories, electronic
percussion and world percussion from top
manufacturers.
Fred J Miller, Inc. 431
8765 Washington Church Road
Miamisburg, OH 45342
Phone: 937-434-1121 Fax: 937-434-0356
E-mail: terry.freeman@fjminc.com
Web: www.fjminc.com
Fred J. Miller, Inc. supplies bands, corps,
quards, and drumlines with a wide variety of
performance wear, as well as uniform accessories, equipment and summer clinic tours.
Hal Leonard Corporation
22
P.O. Box 13819
Milwaukee, WI 53213
Phone: 414-774-3630 Fax: 414-774-3259
E-mail: halinfo@halleonard.com
Web: www.halleonard.com
Publisher of printed music including songbooks, instructional materials, performance
works, videos and DVDs.
General Washington Drum Shop
77
203 N. Fairfax Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-836-7287
E-mail: ropedrum@hotmail.com
Web: www.ropedrum.com
Reproduction period rope-tension drums—
accessories & music pertaining to historic
drumming.
Global Percussion Trio
89
1932 Mountain Avenue
Parkville, MD 21234
Phone: 410-668-4595 Fax: 410-668-4576
E-mail: BDJQdove@aol.com
Web: www.globalpercussiontrio.com
Global Percussion Trio is a multi-cultural
diverse group with 12 years experience in
educational outreach programs, workshops,
clinics and residences through world
percussion.
GP Percussion
103
43325 Lost Corner Road
Leesburg, VA 20176
Phone: 703-669-2963 Fax: 703-669-2963
E-mail: rebeccakite@gppercussion.com
Web: www.gppercussion.com
Keiko Abe—A virtuosic life biography,
ensemble music by Keiko Abe, recordings,
method books by Rebecca Kite. Works by
other composers.
Grover Pro Percussion, Inc.
92
22 Prospect Street, Unit 7
Woburn, MA 01801
Phone: 781-935-6200 Fax: 781-935-5522
E-mail: info@groverpro.com
Web: www.groverpro.com
World class tambourines, triangles, snare
drums, snares, mallets, wood blocks, concert
bass drums, triangle beaters, timpani mallets,
and professional concert percussion.
Manufacurers of Silverfox hand finished drum
sticks and mallets and Spectrasound mark
trees.
Hamilton Stands, Inc.
330
P.O. Box 710
Lebanon, OH 45036
Phone: 513-228-9400 Fax: 513-228-9402
E-mail: sales@hamiltonstands.com
Web: www.hamiltonstands.com
Since 1883, providing high quality, robustly
designed stands for drums, sheet music and
other instruments.
Hammerax
526
Phone: 727-442-5050
E-mail: h@hammerax.com
Web: www.hammerax.com
Cymbal hybrids, Bronze hybrids, Crash FX,
Cymbals, Bells, Boomywang, Hell Bell, Glass,
Meanie, Lash, Culebra, Splashvine.
HoneyRock Publishing
44
396 Raystown Road
Everett, PA 15537
Phone: 814-652-9184 Fax: 814-652-6886
E-mail: music@honeyrock.net
Web: www.honeyrock.net
Percussion performance literature, books and
recordings.
HORNETS Drumsticks
531
6635 North Baltimore Avenue, Suite 230
Portland, OR 97203
Phone: 917-399-8487 Fax: 503-283-2963
E-mail: info@hornetsdrumsticks.com
Web: www.hornetsdrumsticks.com
HORNETS is a brand of ergonomically superior
drumsticks with a strong visual appeal, the
first brand to combine function with a design
of unique beauty.
Hudson Music LLC
311 West 34th Street, Suite 9D
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-643-1028 Fax: 212-564-4129
Web: www.hudsonmusic.com
Publisher.
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Humes & Berg Mfg. Co., Inc.
1005
4801 Railroad Avenue
East Chicago, IN 46312
Phone: 219-397-1980 Fax: 219-397-4534
E-mail: products@humes-berg.com
Web: www.humes-berg.com
Percussion cases, bags, and accessories.
Innovative Percussion, Inc.
470 Metroplex Drive, Suite 214
Nashville, TN 37211
Phone: 615-333-9388 Fax: 615-333-9354
E-mail: info@innovativepercussion.com
Web: www.innovativepercussion.com
Mallets, drumsticks and publications.
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Japan Percussion Center 327
(Komaki Music, Inc.)
1-7-1 Nishi-Asakusa Taito-Ku
Tokyo 111-8567 Japan
Phone: 03-3845-3043 Fax: 03-3845-3066
E-mail: sales@komakimusic.co.jp
Web: www.komakimusic.co.jp
We are the only professional percussion shop
in Japan specializing in unique and high-quality products.
JazzTimes, Inc.Literature Bin
8737 Colesville Road, 9th Floor
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: 301-588-4114 Fax: 301-588-5531
E-mail: jcosgrove@jazztimes.com
Web: www.jazztimes.com
Publisher of 36 year old JazzTimes Magazine
and the annual Jazz Education Guide—the
largest circulated publication addressing the
jazz education marketplace. Since 1970—
America’s Jazz magazine.
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JC’S Drummin Music Center
628
119 Main Street
Rochester, MI 48307
Phone: 248-601-DRUM (3786)
E-mail: chiladog@earthlink.net
Web: www.jcdrums.com
Famous drummer t-shirts (Krupa/Rich/Elvin/
Roach/Peart as well as our famous “I’d Rather
Be Drumming” T’s. Hard to find drummer CD’s
clocks, sticks, cyms and more!!
Joyful Noise Drum Company
729
P.O. Box 31
Castle Rock, CO 80104
Phone: 720-217-9304
E-mail: curt@joyfulnoisedrumcompany.com
Web: www.joyfulnoisedrumcompany.com
JNDC produces limited production snare
drums made of seamless brass and bronze,
including steambent “Timeless Timber” maple
and birch, as well as exotic hardwoods.
Kalimba Magic
105
P.O. Box 42374
Tucson, AZ 85733
Phone: 520-488-7641
E-mail: mark@markholdaway.com
Web: www.kalimbamagic.com
Kalimba Magic sells high quality Hugh Tracey
kalimbas, kalimba instructional materials, and
kalimba CDs. Our website features daily tips
and a monthly newsletter.
Kaman Music Corporation
513
P.O. Box 507
Bloomfield, CT 06002
Phone: 860-509-8888 Fax: 860-509-8891
E-mail: info-kmc@kaman.com
Web: www.kamanmusic.com
Kaman Music presents Gretsch drum kits and
Gibraltar Hardware.
The KikBrik
919
3712 Garfield Avenue S
Minneapolis, MN 55409
Phone: 612-702-9770
E-mail: john@kikbrik.com
Web: www.kikbrik.com
The KikBrik™ is an innovative new product
for achieving consistently great-sounding
kick drums. It’s the first and only acoustically
designed kick damper, absorbing unwanted
overtones while preserving attack.
Kori Percussion/Custom Music Co.
57
1930 Hilton
Ferndale, MI 48220
Phone: 800-521-6380 Fax: 248-546-8296
E-mail: cmctuba@aol.com
Web: www.custommusiccorp.com
Using only the finest Honduran rosewood and
rosewood lite, Kori marimbas and xylophones
are offered in a variety of models. Check out
the new 5 octave marimba.
Kyle Dunleavy Steel Drums
426
Philadelphia, PA 19125
Phone: 215-300-9849
E-mail: kdpans@juno.com
Web: www.kdsteeldrums.com
A full line of professional quality steel drums,
accessories and fine tuning service.
Latin Percussion
117
160 Belmont Avenue
Garfield, NJ 07026
Phone: 888-576-8742 Fax: 973-772-3568
Web: www.lpmusic.com
Manufacturer of hand percussion for over 35
years, features a vast selection of wood and
fiberglass congas and bongos, timbales, community drums, udu drums, cowbells, blocks,
chimes, tambourines, shakers and more.
exhibitors
Lawrence University— 71
Conservatory of Music
P.O. Box 599
Appleton, WI 54912
Phone: 800-227-0982 Fax: 920-832-6782
E-mail: excel@lawrence.edu
Web: www.lawrence.edu
A nationally recognized conservatory devoted
exclusively to the education of undergraduates within a distinguished college of the
liberal arts and sciences.
Lehman College
95
250 Bedford Park Blvd. West
Bronx, NY 10468
Phone: 718-960-8247 Fax: 718-960-7248
E-mail: mlang@prodigy.net
Web: www.lehman.edu/deanhum/music
The Ethos Percussion Group is the new
resident ensemble at Lehman College. They
came to Lehman at the invitation of Professor
Morris Lang.
Lone Star Percussion
122
10611 Control Place
Dallas, TX 75238
Phone: 214-340-0835 Fax: 214-340-0861
E-mail: jnelson@lonestarpercussion.com
Web: www.lonestarpercussion.com
Total percussion supplies at discount prices.
Ludwig & Musser 701
a division of Conn-Selmer, Inc.
P.O. Box 310
Elkhart, IN 46515
Phone: 574-522-1675 Fax: 574-295-5405
E-mail: custserv@ludwig-drums.com
Web: www.ludwig-drums.com
Manufacturer of percussion instruments and
accessories.
Mallet Jack 93
6205 Davenport Drive
Madison, WI 53711-2447
Phone: 608-277-9518 Fax: 608-277-9612
E-mail: rickm@malletjack.com
Web: www.malletjack.com
“Mallet Jack”—a new device to raise fixed
height mallet percussion instruments to the
optimum performance height; perfect for
universities, schools, and studio situations.
Malletech/Mostly Marimba
16
P.O. Box 467
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
Phone: 732-774-0011 Fax: 732-774-0033
E-mail: malletech@mostlymarimba.com
Web: www.mostlymarimba.com
Exclusive manufacturer of Malletech marimbas, xylophones, and glockenspiels; Keyboard
Percussion Publications, Studio 4 Music,
Resonator Records, & Malletech mallets.
MalletWorks/ComposersWorks
53
P.O. Box 302
Wilton, CT 06897
Phone: 203-762-8083 Fax: 203-762-8079
E-mail: malletworksmusic@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.malletworks.com
Sheet music and recordings of leaders in the
mallet field. Also mallets and accessories.
Digital publication of any music by anyone
anywhere.
Mapex USA, Inc.
719
P.O. Box 1360
Lavergne, TN 37086
Phone: 615-793-2050 Fax: 615-793-2070
E-mail: jhibbs@mapexdrums.com
Web: www.mapexdrums.com
Featuring Mapex drum sets, Black Panther
snare drums, Janus Ross mallet instruments.
Marimba One
P.O. Box 786
Arcata, CA 95518
Phone: 707-822-9570 Fax: 707-822-6256
E-mail: percussion@marimba1.com
Web: www.marimba1.com
Marimbas and mallets.
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Media Press, Inc. 79
1341 W. Fullerton Ave. # 355
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: 773-296-0836 Fax: 773-296-0185
E-mail: mark@mediapressinc.com
Web: www.mediapressinc.com
Publishers of contemporary music since 1969.
Meinl USA
413
3300 Ambrose Avenue
Nashville, TN 37207
Phone: 877-886-3465 Fax: 615-227-0290
E-mail: info@meinlusa.com
Web: www.meinlpercussion.com
Celebrating three decades of percussion
innovation and over 50 years of fine cymbal
making; featuring Meinl Cymbals, Meinl
Percussion and Niño Children’s Percussion.
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
82
#4 Industrial Drive
Pacific, MO 63069
Phone: 636-257-3970 Fax: 636-257-5062
E-mail: E-mail@melbay.com
Web: www.melbay.com
Produces and markets extensive catalog of
instructional and repertoire books, books/CD
packages, videos, DVD’s, CD’s, and accessories worldwide.
Meredith Music Publications
P.O. Box 344
Galesville, MD 20765
Phone: 410-867-0074 Fax: 410-867-0074
Web: www.meredithmusic.com
Publisher.
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Mike Balter Mallets
913
15 East Palatine Road, Suite 116
Prospect Heights, IL 60070
Phone: 847-541-5777 Fax: 847-541-5785
E-mail: info@mikebalter.com
Web: www.mikebalter.com
Custom and semi-custom percussion mallets
for keyboard percussion, concert percussion,
marching percussion and more.
Modern Drummer Publications, Inc.
12 Old Bridge Road
Cedar Grove, NJ 07009
Phone: 973-239-4140 Fax: 973-239-7139
E-mail: mdinfo@moderndrummer.com
Web: www.moderndrummer.com
Publisher.
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Mountain Rythym, Inc.
1029
P.O. Box 1356
Lakefield, ONT Canada K0L 2H0
Phone: 905-764-6543 Fax: 905-764-6685
E-mail: drums@mountainrythym.com
Web: www.mountainrythym.com
Dream Cymbals and Gongs—Bliss & Contact.
Contemporanea—Brazilian Percussion/
Djembes/Ashikos/Congas/Bongos and Bata.
Custom made drums also available.
Musicians Institute
626
1655 McCadden Place
Hollywood, CA 90028
Phone: 800-255-PLAY Fax: 323-462-1575
E-mail: admissions@mi.edu
Web: www.mi.edu
The world’s most innovative school of contemporary music and recording. MI offers courses
in vocal and instrument study, recording engineering, music business, and guitar building.
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MusicTime, Inc.
15
P.O. Box 405
Haddonfield, NJ 08033
Phone: 800-932-0824 Fax: 856-346-4264
E-mail: info@musictime.com
Web: www.musictime.com
Printed music distributor for all publishers in
all categories.
New York University Classical 97
Percussion Studio
35 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10012
E-mail: percdept.alias@nyu.edu
NYU Classical Percussion Percussion Studio
with Professor Jonathan Haas and Simon
Boyer. The Second Annual Broadway Percussion Seminar/Summit features the day’s top
Broadway percussionists.
Noble & Cooley Co.
919
P.O. Box 131
Granville MA 01034
Phone: 413-357-6321 Fax: 413-357-6314
Email: jay@noblecooley.com
Web: www.noblecooley.com
Custom hand made snare drums & drum sets.
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
81
39 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Phone: 440-775-8413 Fax: 440-775-6972
E-mail: conservatory.admissions@oberlin.edu
Web: www.oberlin.edu
Information including admission materials,
applications, and course catalogs.
Paiste America, Inc.
613
460 Atlas Street
Brea, CA 92821
Phone: 714-529-2222 Fax: 714-671-5869
E-mail: ashreve@paiste.com
Web: www.paiste.com
Traditionals, New Signature, Signature,
Signature Reflector, Twenty, Giant Beat, 2002,
Rude, Noise Works, Alpha, PST 5, PST 3, 201
Bronze, 101 Brass, Sound Creation, Planet and
Symphonic Gongs, and Tuned Percussion.
Pan Press, Inc.
69
P.O. Box 1126
Elgin, IL 60121-1126
Phone: 630-587-3473 Fax: 847-574-7621
E-mail: info@panpress.com
Web: www.panpress.com
Steel band music for beginning and advanced
ensembles. Solos for steel pan. Steel pan
recordings.
Panyard, Inc.
1216 California Avenue
Akron, OH 44314
Phone: 800-377-0202 Fax: 330-745-3155
E-mail: info@panyard.com
Web: www.panyard.com
Steel drum musical instruments, cases,
stands, sheet music, recordings and
accessories.
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Passaris Percussion
126
P.O. Box 5564
Novato, CA 94948
Phone: 415-827-3059
E-mail: info@passarispercussion.com
Web: www.passarispercussion.com
RhythMark practice pad designed to improve accuracy. TablePad for multiple player
practicing at once. Custom made snare drums,
toms, and drum sets.
exhibitors
Peace Musical Company
326
18555 E. Gate Avenue
City Of Industry, CA 91748
Phone: 877-999-4327 Fax: 877-999-8822
E-mail: mark@peacedrum.com
Web: www.peacedrum.com
Drumsets, marching drums, student snare kits,
bell kits, combination bell/snare kits, tri-toms,
quads.
Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments
549 Metroplex Drive
Nashville, TN 37211
Phone: 615-833-4477 Fax: 615-833-6242
Web: www.pearldrum.com
All areas of percussion equipment.
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Per-Mus Publications, Inc.
85
P.O. Box 218333
Columbus, OH 43221
Phone: 614-336-9665 Fax: 614-336-9665
E-mail: PerMus@aol.com
Web: www.permus.com
Per-Mus Publications—percussion solos,
ensembles, & collections for contests, recitals, & study. Selling worldwide to individuals,
schools, & dealers. Percussive Notes founding
editor Dr. James L. Moore is editor/owner of
Per-Mus Publications.
Pioneer Valley Imports
529
221 Pine Street, Suite 408
Florence, MA 01062
Phone: 413-586-1800 Fax: 413-585-8902
E-mail: sales@pioneervalleyimports.com
Web: www.pioneervalleyimports.com
Pioneer Valley Imports is a US Distributor
and dealer of schlagwerk percussion instruments—percussion made in germany.
Power Wrist Builders
727
1434 Corte de Rosa
San Jose, CA 95120
Phone: 800-645-6673 Fax: 408-578-9604
E-mail: info@powerwristbuilders.com
Web: www.powerwristbuilders.com
Power Wrist Builders are SOLID Aluminum
and SOLID Brass drum sticks. When used
in your daily practice routine they will build
strength, agility, and endurance.
Premier Percussion, Ltd.
813
Blaby Road
Wigston, Leicester LE18 4DF United Kingdom
Phone: 44-0-870-160-3121
Fax: 44-0-870-160-3122
E-mail: info@premier-percussion.com
Web: www.premier-percussion.com
World famous British maker of premium quality drumset, marching, tuned and orchestral
percussion.
Professional Percussion Products
78
P.O. Box 33252
Cleveland, OH 44133
Phone: 440-877-9674 Fax: 440-877-9675
E-mail: kbdustman@aol.com
Web: www.professionalpercussionproducts.
com
A by-appointment only orchestral percussion
showroom exclusively devoted to the finest
symphonic instruments and accessories,
where the most respected brands can be
played, tested, and purchased.
Pro-Mark Corporation
619/627
11550 Old Main Street Loop Road
Houston, TX 77025
Phone: 877-PRO-MARK or 713-314-1100
Fax: 713-669-8000
E-mail: info@promark.com
Web: www.promark.com
World’s largest manufacturer dedicated exclusivley to the design, production, and distribution of drumsticks, mallets, and percussion
accessories.
Randall May International, Inc.
1011
1402 McGaw Avenue
Irvine, CA 92614
Phone: 949-757-1717 Fax: 949-757-0717
E-mail: mayrandall@aol.com
Web: www.randallmay.com
MAY Tubular/Marching Carriers, Stadium
Hardware™, and accessories focusing on
marching percussion. Also, featuring the MAY
Drum Miking System.
RAWI Percussion Publications
83
Casa Triangolo
6596 Gordemo Switzerland
Phone: 41-91-745-6316
Fax: 41-91-745-3781
E-mail: ruudwiener@swissonline.ch
Web: www.percussion-rawi.com
Exclusive publisher of the keyboard/percussion compositions and recordings by Ruud
Wiener. Exclusively featuring ABC Mallets.
Regal Tip/Calato Mfg.
1001
4501 Hyde Park Boulevard
Niagara Falls, NY 14305
Phone: 716-285-3546 Fax: 716-285-2710
E-mail: carolc@regaltip.com
Web: www.regaltip.com
Regal Tip Drumsticks, including the new ESeries and X-Series, brushes, specialty sticks
and accessories.
Remo, Inc.
201
28101 Industry
Valencia, CA 91355
Phone: 661-294-5600 Fax: 661-294-5200
E-mail: www.customerservice@remo.com
Web: www.remo.com
Drumheads, world percussion heads,
timpani heads, marching heads, powermax,
powersonic, world percussion, kids percussion, sound shapes, tunable sound shapes,
drumsets.
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exhibitors
Reunion Blues
91 Sabian, Ltd.
401
11 5th Street, Suite 106
219 Main Street
Petaluma, CA 94952
Meductic NB E6H 2L5 Canada
Phone: 940-239-0341 Fax: 940-799-3519
Phone: 506-272-2019 Fax: 506-272-1265
Web: www.reunionblues.com
E-mail: sabian@sabian.com
Leading manufacturer of the world’s finest
Web: www.sabian.com
100% Leather cymbal/snare/and stick/mallet
The SABIAN product portfolio includes a
bags. When “Nothing but the Best” will do.
complete line of award winning cymbals and
sounds ranging from the vintage Hand HamRhythm Source
75 mered and AA series, to the innovative and
1050 North Point #1504
modern HHX, AAX, and mid-price XS20.
San Francisco, CA 94109
Phone: 415-674-9846 Fax: 415-674-9846
Salazar Fine Tuning
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E-mail: drclock@gmail.com
1051 Samoa Boulevard
Web: www.rhythmsource.com
Arcata, CA 95521
Revolutionary metronome, plays and displays
Phone: 707-825-9579 Fax: 707-825-9575
meters and polymeters in a musical circular
E-mail: info@salazarfinetuning.com
pattern, with an interactive interface allowing
Web: www.salazarfinetuning.com
virtually infinite rhythms.
Tuning, repair, refinishing, restoration and
custom keyboards for your vintage to modern
Robert King Music Sales, Inc.
87 marimba, xylophone, vibraphone and bells.
140 Main Street
Sam Ash Music Corporation
104
North Easton, MA 02356
Phone: 508-238-8118 Fax: 508-238-2571
8284 Center Run Drive
E-mail: commerce@rkingmusic.com
Web: www.rkingmusic.com
Phone: 317-577-3006 Fax: 317-577-3076
Robert King Music Sales is a subsidiary of a
E-mail: HQ@samashmusic.com
French Publisher Alphonse Leduc, well known Web: www.samashmusic.com
The Sam Ash Music Store chain represents
for its percussion publications by Delecluse,
most major manufacturers and will be showing
Dupin, Jorand, Passerone, Tavernier, Cals,
a variety of products and publications.
Casterede, Bozza, Desportes, Derveaux, Dubois, Charpentier, Humair, Boursault, Lefevre,
Samson Technologies
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Ceccarelli and many other French composers.
45 Gilpin Avenue
Roland Corporation US
517/527 Haupauge, NY 11788
Phone: 631-784-2200 Fax: 631-784-2201
5100 South Eastern Avenue
E-mail: info@samsontech.com
Los Angeles, CA 90040
Web: www.samsontech.com
Phone: 323-890-3700 Fax: 323-890-3701
Samson designs-manufactures and distributes
Web: www.rolandus.com
professional wireless audio and recording
Roland Corporation U.S. is the world leader
products in the United States and over 106
in electronic percussion products. With an
award winning lineup of V-Drums, percussion, countries abroad.
controllers, rhythm trainers, triggers and more,
School Band & OrchestraLiterature Bin
Roland consistently demonstrates its com(MMR)
mittment to excellence, innovation and time
21 Highland Circle, Unit 1
honored durability.
Needham, MA 02494
Ross Mallet Instruments/ 819 Phone: 781-453-9310 Fax: 781-453-9389
Majestic Percussion
E-mail: rkessel@symphonypublishing.com
Web: www.symphonypublishing.com
P.O. Box 90249
MMR is the leading trade magazine in the
Austin, TX 78709
musical instrument market, reaching over 8,500
Phone: 512-288-7400 Fax: 512-288-6445
E-mail: info@rossmallets.com
dealers each month. MMR provides practical,
Web: www.rossmallet.com
hands-on information on the music industry,
Concert and field mallet percussion instruincluding news, trends, statistics, profiles of
ments, concert timpani, concert bass drums.
leading dealers and manufacturers, trade
show coverage and much more.
Row-Loff Productions
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Sibelius USA
58
203 Gann Drive
Nashville, TN 37210
1407 Oakland Boulevard, Suite 103
Phone: 800-624-8001 Fax: 615-885-0370
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
E-mail: crock@rowloff.com
Phone: 925-280-6600 Fax: 925-280-0008
Web: www.rowloff.com
E-mail: infousa@sibelius.com
Marching and percussion literature at all
Web: www.sibelius.com
levels. Comprehensive solo and method books Sibelius 5—Music Notation/Composition
with a keen eye for show attire.
Software.
SKB Corporation
1019
1607 North O’Donnell Way
Orange, CA 92867
Fax: 714-283-0425
E-mail: customerservice@skbcases.com
Web: www.skbcases.com
Manufacturer of the world’s best molded
drumset, marching percussion, stand and
watertight utility cases. All SKB cases are
backed by SKB’s Unconditional Lifetime
Warranty.
SmartMusic and Finale
100Q
7615 Golden Triangle Drive, Suite M
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Phone: 952-937-9611 Fax: 952-937-9760
Web: www.makemusic.com
SmartMusic software enables educators to
provide guidence to every student and easily
document each student’s progress. Finale is
the world’s best-selling notation software.
Smith Publications
65
2617 Gwynndale Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21207
Phone: 410-298-6509 Fax: 410-944-5113
E-mail: sylvias@smith-publications.com
Web: www.smith-publications.com
Contemporary music for percussion, including solos, ensembles, and percussion in a
chamber music setting. Publisher of The
Noble Snare, Marimba Concert, and The
Links Series of Vibraphone Solos.
Solomon Steel Pan Company
1060 Sawmill Run Boulevard
Pittsburgh, PA 15220
Phone: 412-431-6030 Fax: 412-431-5865
E-mail: steelpan@mindspring.com
Web: www.solomonsteelpan.com
Steel pans and accessories.
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Stagg Cymbals (EMD Music, Inc.)
106
P.O. Box 487
Lavergne, TN 37086
Phone: 615-793-8787 Fax: 615-793-8787
E-mail: usa@emdmusic.com
Web: www.staggmusic.com
Stagg Cymbals and Gongs are hand crafted
from a cast mixture of 80/20 bronze creating
unique sounds for each instrument, defining the shape and tuning with experienced
hands.
Stern Tanning Co., Inc.
70
P.O. Box 55
Sheboygan Falls, WI 53085
Phone: 920-467-8615 Fax: 920-467-8694
E-mail: info@sterntanning.com
Web: www.sterntanning.com
Premium quality calfskin drum heads for
batter, snare, bass, and timpani drums. Also
available: steer, goat, kip, for all types of
drums.
Steve Weiss Music
110
2324 Wyandotte Road
Willow Grove, PA 19090
Phone: 215-659-0100 Fax: 215-659-1170
Web: www.steveweissmusic.com
Percussion instrument and music specialists handling all major lines and imports from
around the world. Of particular interest: wind
gongs, tam tams, Chinese cymbals mallets
and a new line of bags.
Tama Drums
219
1726 Winchester Road
Bensalem, PA 19020
Phone: 800-669-4226 Fax: 215-245-8583
Web: www.tama.com
The strongest name in drums and the creator
of the first heavy-duty hardware, multiclamps, Octobans, and the Gong Bass Drum,
offers a vast range of drums for every player
from traditional jazz to hardcore metal and
beginner to seasoned pro.
Tapspace Publications
58
P.O. Box 55753
Portland, OR 97238
Phone: 503-288-6080 Fax: 503-288-6085
E-mail: info@tapspace.com
Web: www.tapspace.com
Publisher of creative percussion music and
books, and creators of “Virtual Drumline”
software.
The Collective
631
541 Avenue of The Americas, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10010
Phone: 212-741-0091 x104 Fax: 212-604-0760
E-mail: tonym@thecoll.com
Web: www.thecollectivenyc.com
Music school focusing on drumming with full
time and part time programs, school catalogs
available, books and videos for sale.
The Percussion Source
826
1212 West 5th Street
Coralville, IA 52241
Phone: 866-849-4387 Fax: 888-470-3942
E-mail: service@percussionsource.com
Web: www.percussionsource.com
Concert percussion instruments and accessories for the serious player from beginner
to pro.
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ThunderEcho™ Drum Company
427
2351 Pearl Road
Medina, OH 44256
Phone: 330-225-1488 Fax: 330-225-9011
E-mail: kevin@ThunderEchoDrums.com
Web: www.thunderechodrums.com
Designer Kevin Reed and Mom have been
making the urban-looking Trash Kat 20” floor
tom since 2002. Stop by their booth and say
“hello”.
Toca Percussion— 118
A Kaman Music Company
160 Belmont Avenue
Garfield, NJ 07026
Phone: 973-478-6903 Fax: 973-772-3568
E-mail: Victor.Filonovich@kmn.kaman.com
Web: www.tocapercussion.com
Toca Percussion.
Trick Percussion Products, Inc.
Booth Number: 130
450 E. Remington Rd.
Schaumberg, IL 60173
Phone: 847-519-9911 Fax: 847-519-1979
E-mail: mrdtrick@aol.com
Web: www.trickdrums.com
Trick Drums, PRO1V Bass Drum Pedals,
GS007 throw-offs, Trick Polish Products.
Trinidad & Tobago Instruments Limited 430
Corner Eastern Main Road & Dorata Street
Laventille Trinidad
Phone: 868-627-0185 Fax: 868-623-1634
E-mail: steelpan@mail.tt
Web: www.panlandtt.com
Steelpans of all types & sizes. Stands/sticks/
cases & aids for steelpans.
Tycoon Percussion
213
4560 Eucalyptus Ave, Unit B
Chino, CA 91710
Phone: 909-393-5555 Fax: 909-393-5500
E-mail: quincy@tycoonpercussion.com
Web: www.tycoonpercussion.com
Premium quality manufacturer of congas,
bongos, djembes, cajons, timbales, cowbells,
maracas, and a wide variety of other hand
percussion products.
UPbeat Music Publications
73
3000 S. Wentworth
Chicago, IL 60616
Phone: 312-842-5896 Fax: 312-842-5896
E-mail: info@upbeatmusicpublications.com
Web: www.upbeatmusicpublications.com
Sheet music—percussion solos—ensemble—steel pan combo—and mixed steel pan
combo. Steel pan combo CDs.
US Army Old Guard Fife 99
and Drum Corps
Building 231
Fort Myers, VA 22211
Phone: 703-696-3743 Fax: 703-696-1210
E-mail: richard.ruddle@us.army.mil
Web: www.army.mil/fifeanddrum
The U.S. Army’s Official Ceremonial Unit and
Escort to the President of the United States.
The drumline is the Army’s premier rudimental drumline.
Vater Percussion, Inc.
927
270 Centre Street Unit D
Holbrook, MA 02343
Phone: 781-767-1877 Fax: 781-767-0010
E-mail: alanv@vater.com
Web: www.vater.com
Drumsticks, mallets, brushes, Player Design
Specialty, marching sticks & mallets, concert
ensemble marimba, vibraphone, xylophone &
orchestra bell mallets. Stick Holder Drumstick Bag, Everything you hit with!
Vaughncraft Percussion 602 High Street
Baldwin City, KS 66006
Phone: 785-594-6776 Fax: 785-594-6777
E-mail: info@vaughncraft.com
Web: www.vaughncraft.com
Snare drum shells, woodblocks, temple
blocks, mallets, tambourines.
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Vic Firth, Inc.
319
65 Sprague Street / Boston-Dedham
Commerce Park
Boston, MA 02136
Phone: 617-364-6869
E-mail: info@vicfirth.com
Web: www.vicfirth.com
Complete line of drumsticks and mallets for
every percussive need.
Wernick Musical Instruments
5
2A Twycross Street
Leicester, Leicestershire LE2 0DU England
Phone: (+44) 116-255-6225
E-mail: will@wernick.net
Web: www.wernick.net
Xylosynth Midi Mallet Keyboard. Real
wood keys for a natural feel and incredible response. Used by Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra Jazz Group, Safri Duo, and David
Friedman.
WGI Sport of the Arts
86
7755 Paragon Road, Suite 104
Dayton, OH 45459
Phone: 937-434-7100 Fax: 937-434-6825
E-mail: mkt@wgi.org
Web: www.wgi.org
Indoor winter percussion competitions for
scholastic and independent units. The 2008
WGI Percussion World Championships will be
held in Dayton, OH, April 17-19.
Xymox Percussion
49
4230 E. Airport Drive #107
Ontario, CA 91761
Phone: 909-605-1818 Fax: 909-605-1818
E-mail: xymoxpercussion@aol.com
Web: www.xymoxpercussion.com
Drum pads, drum mutes, and practice equipment.
6/101
6600 Orangethorpe Avenue
Buena Park, CA 90620
Phone: 714-522-9521 Fax: 714-522-9475
Web: www.yamaha.com/band
A complete line of concert, marching and
student percussion instruments.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
PASIC 2008 FOCUS DAY
“Out of Africa: Exploring African Influence
in Contemporary Percussion Music”
The PAS New Music/Research Committee is pleased to announce a call for proposals
for presentation/performance at the 2008 PASIC Focus Day, Wednesday, November 5,
in Austin, Texas.
The theme for the day is “Out of Africa: Exploring African Influence in Contemporary
Percussion Music.”
The committee seeks proposals for performances (solo and ensemble) and other
presentation formats, in order to explore and celebrate the influence of African music
and instruments on 20th and 21st century percussion music. The African “connection” may be present in the composition itself (e.g. Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces
of Wood”), and/or in the instruments used (e.g. Iannis Xenakis’ “Okho” for three
djembes). We are not seeking transcriptions of African folk music for a Western
percussion ensemble, but rather, original compositions inspired by African musics,
instruments, and/or aesthetics. Proposals including compositions or instruments with
an Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Caribbean, or Afro-Cuban influence will be considered, with
preference given to those with the strongest African connection.
The committee is particularly interested in showcasing solo and ensemble works for
various membranophones, especially frame drums (tar, riq, pandiero, etc.) and hand
drums (doumbek, djembe, congas, etc.). We are also interested in mallet keyboard
works (marimba, xylophone, etc.) that are uniquely influenced by African music, and
innovative compositions that feature lamellophones such as the kalimba or mbira.
There are no limitations on instrumentation. Works may also include a dance element
that can be integrated on the stage, although a dance floor will not be provided. The
main thrust of the day will be on new and original music. In addition, the committee
also seeks one presentation that will summarize the dissemination of African music
and culture to the Americas (Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, the United States, and elsewhere),
and ultimately it’s influence on 20th and 21st century percussion art music. Similarly,
the committee is considering the inclusion of one traditional (folkloric) African drumming ensemble that utilizes traditional instruments (and possibly dance).
The New Music/Research Committee is looking to significantly expand the knowledge
of the PAS community concerning African influence on our repertoire and instrumentation, to pay homage to the source of much of our percussion music, and to generate
new works that reflect African musical forms, compositional styles, or instruments.
As always, the committee seeks the interest and participation of both emerging and
established composers, scholars, and performers. All proposals that qualify for inclusion on the 2008 PASIC Focus Day will be given complete and careful consideration.
Please note: expenses and the securing of instruments and funding sources will
be the sole responsibility of the artist(s). This includes the logistical and financial
considerations involved with additional performers. Please prepare and submit your
proposal with this consideration. A completed application must be included for proposal to be reviewed.
Submit proposals online at www.pasic.org
For additional information: contact Ben Toth, btoth@hartford.edu
Deadline: December 15, 2007
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
PASIC 2008 RESEARCH PROPOSAL INFORMATION
The Scholarly Research Committee of the Percussive Arts Society is pleased to announce the call
for research proposals for presentation at PASIC 2008, November 5–8 in Austin, Texas. Three papers will be selected for oral presentation and up to eight additional proposals will be selected to
be presented as research posters. Some possible topic areas for presentation include: world percussion, historical aspects of percussion, compositional analysis, historical aspects of drumset,
physical and medical related issues, notation for percussion, aspects of orchestral repertoire and
performance practices within the varied areas of percussion.
Authors selected to give oral presentations will have a 50 minute session in which to present their
research and answer questions from the audience. Most media resources will be available upon
request.
Those authors whose proposals are selected to present their research in a poster session, will do
so at a time when interested attendees may discuss research results and applications with individual authors. Each presenter will prepare a 30” x 40” poster that describes the research and will
provide abstracts of the report for interested individuals attending the poster session.
A completed PASIC Session Application must be submitted for either format. When applying online
you will need to provide the following information:
1. Your name .
2. Your proposed topic title.
3. Indication of your preference of an oral presentation, poster presentation or either.
4. An outline of the presentation itself.
5. A 50-word or less description of the nature of your proposal. If you are applying for an oral presentation, indicate how you intend to organize your material within a 50 minute time frame.
6. A bibliography/review of the literature related to your topic.
7. A short biography to be included in the PASIC program if you are accepted to participate.
Dissertation abstracts are not acceptable. Do not send completed papers.
Submit proposals online at www.pasic.org
For additional information: 317-974-4488
Deadline: December 15, 2007
PASIC MORNING FUN RUN/WALK
This year the Health & Wellness
Committee is adding something
new to the PASIC celebration. In an
effort to promote and encourage the
health of the attendees, the Health
& Wellness Committee is sponsoring a morning “fun run” from
6:30–7:00 a.m. Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday. Various groups will run
or walk different paces to accommodate anyone who would like to
participate.
Whether you’re comfortable with
a slow walk or a brisk run, meet us
at the front doors of the Hyatt at
6:30 a.m. for 30 minutes of running
or walking to start the day off right.
If you are already a seasoned runner, this will keep you on schedule. If you have never started a running or walking
program, this is your opportunity.
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sponsors
Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.
Peter Erskine
Giovanni Hidalgo
Alternate Mode. Inc.
Lalo
Jack West
Armstrong Atlantic State
University
Stephen Primatic
Attack Drum Heads
Billy Martin
Alex Acuña
Kevin Bobo
Jim Casella
Grant Collins
Dave DiCenso
Peter Erskine
Florida State University
Percussion Ensemble
Tim Genis
Neil Grover
Omar Hakim
Chris Hanning
Thom Hannum
Fernando Hashimoto
Giovanni Hidalgo
J.J. Johnson
Bret Kuhn
Lassiter High School Percussion Ensemble
Billy Martin
Mike Mcintosh & the Bluecoats Drumline
Lewis Nash
Panyard Steel Orchestra
Paul Rennick
Pete Retzlaff
Tomm Roland
So Percussion
Joel Spencer
Tom Stubbs
Blake Tyson
Beall Percussion Specialties
Tom Stubbs
Beurskens Music Editions
Ludwig Albert
Black Swamp Percussion
Base4 Percussion Quartet
Andrew M. Bliss
Michael Bump
Anthony Di Sanza
Talujon
Eric J. Willie
C. Alan Publications
Josh Gottry
California Percussion LLC
David Herbert
Campinas State University
Fernando Hashimoto
Canada Arts Council
Aiyun Huang
Chops Percussion
Gary Rudolph
Cooperman Company
T.H. Subash Chandran
David Kuckhermann
Ganesh Kumar
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Mike Quinn
Rick Walker
DeMorrow Instruments, Ltd.
Mika Yoshida
Drum Workshop, Inc.
Alex Acuña
Dave DiCenso
Peter Erskine
Dynasty USA/DEG Music
Products, Inc.
Rob Ferguson
Paul Rennick
Ethnomusic, Inc.
Craig Woodson
Evans Drumheads
Alex Acuña
BataMbira
Jim Bailey
Fred Bugbee
David Collier
Brann Dailor
Peter Erskine
Thom Hannum
David Herbert
Giovanni Hidalgo
Dom Moio
Gary Rudolph
Eric J. Willie
Fort Lewis College
Animus Music Festival
Fort Lewis College Percussion Ensemble
Georgia State University
GSU PE Ensemble
Rafael Pereira
Gibraltar Hardware
Intersections Duo
Gon Bops
Alex Acuña
Governo do Estado do Para
Secretaria de Cultura
Trio Manari
Grover Pro Percussion
Fred Bugbee
David Collier
Florida State University Percussion Ensemble
Neil Grover
Hal Leonard Corporation
Jim Casella
Indiana University of
Pennsylvania–College of Fine Arts/Dept. of Music
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Percussion Ensemble
Innovative Percussion, Inc.
Ludwig Albert
Jim Bailey
Michael Bump
Jim Casella
David Collier
Christopher Deviney
Rob Ferguson
Eric Hollenbeck
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Percussion Ensemble
Intersections Duo
Kristopher Keeton
Bret Kuhn
Paul Rennick
Gary Rudolph
Talujon
Eric J. Willie
Jag Drums
Marcus Santos & BatukAxe
JW Pepper Sheet Music
Indiana University of PA
Kaman Music Corporation
BataMbira
Kent State University Dept. of Pan-American Studies
Blake Tyson
Kettles & Company
Jonathan Haas
NYU Percussion Ensemble
Korean Music College of Chung Ang University
Chung Ang Percussion Group
Latin Percussion
BataMbira
Robert Chappell
David Collier
Peter Erskine
Giovanni Hidalgo
Intersections Duo
Dom Moio
Panoramic
Walfredo Reyes, Jr.
Marcus Santos & BatukAxe
Liam Teague
Trio Manari
Dave Weckl
Looperlative
Rick Walker
Ludwig & Musser a division of Conn-Selmer, Inc.
J.J. Johnson
Jon Metzger
Malletech/Mostly Marimba
Kevin Bobo
Marta Klimasara
Mapex USA, Inc.
Walfredo Reyes, Jr.
Marimba One
Mi Youne Kim
McGill University
Aiyun Huang
McGill University CIRMMT–(Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology)
Fernando Rocha
Meinl USA
Brann Dailor
Meredith Music Publications
Stephen Primatic
Mike Balter Mallets
Michael Bump
Robert Chappell
Josh Gottry
Panoramic
Talujon
Liam Teague
Ministry of Culture Belgium
Ludwig Albert
Chin Cheng Lin
Mountain Rythym
Tomm Roland
Musiconnect Ltd.–Malta
Intersections Duo
Music in the Mountains
Festival Orchestra
Fort Lewis College Percussion Ensemble
The Music Sales Group
Dave Weckl
New Mexico State University
Fred Bugbee
New York University
Jonathan Haas
Northern Illinois University
School of Music
Robert Chappell
Panoramic
Liam Teague
Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Percussion Ensemble
Oak Mountain High School
Oak Mountian High School
Percussion Ensemble
Paiste America, Inc.
Ndugu Chancler
Intersections Duo
Panyard, Inc.
Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments
Ludwig Albert
Azle High School Percussion Ensemble
Michael Bump
Anne-Julie Caron
Jim Casella
Grant Collins
Christopher Deviney
Jesus Diaz
Dave DiCenso
Ear Massage
Jonathan Haas
Omar Hakim
Chris Hanning
Thom Hannum
Eric Hollenbeck
Aiyun Huang
Rafael Pereira
Mike Quinn
So Percussion
Nick Woud
Pre-Julliard College
Jonathan Haas
Premier Percussion, Ltd.
Joel Spencer
sponsors
Professional Percussion Products
duo Anime
Pro-Mark Corporation
Ronald Bruner, Jr.
Fred Bugbee
Robert Chappell
Anthony Di Sanza
Jonathan Haas
Chris Hanning
Fernando Hashimoto
J.J. Johnson
Jon Metzger
Panoramic
Liam Teague
Blake Tyson
Mika Yoshida
Puresound
Peter Erskine
Quebec Arts Council
Aiyun Huang
Regal Tip/Calato Mfg.
Billy Martin
Dom Moio
Lewis Nash
Walfredo Reyes, Jr.
Joel Spencer
Remo, Inc.
Jim Casella
Ndugu Chancler
Dahui–Ensemble du Rhythm
Dave DiCenso
Tim Genis
Jonathan Haas
Omar Hakim
Chris Hanning
Bret Kuhn
Jimmie Morales
Lewis Nash
Geraldo De Oliveira
Pete Retzlaff
Walfredo Reyes, Jr.
Dave Weckl
Roland Corporation US
Walfredo Reyes, Jr.
Row-Loff Productions
Majestic Percussion
N. Scott Robinson
Amrit Nataraj
Sabian
Alan Abel
Jim Bailey
BataMbira
Ronald Bruner, Jr.
Michael Bump
Robert Chappell
David Collier
Anthony Di Sanza
Ear Massage
sponsors
Dom Moio
Panoramic
Mike Quinn
Walfredo Reyes, Jr.
Gary Rudolph
Liam Teague
Talujon
Dave Weckl
Eric J. Willie
Sacheon International Percussion Festival Committee
Sankara Music Academy
T.H. Subash Chandran
Ganesh Kumar
Shure
Ndugu Chancler
Peter Erskine
Dave Weckl
Sibelius USA
Andrew M. Bliss
Jim Casella
Sonor
Lewis Nash
St. Xavier High School
St. X Jungle Drummers
Strasbourg Conservatory
Emmanuel Sejourne
Sweetwater Sound
Gary Rudolph
Tama Drums
Ronald Bruner, Jr.
Brann Dailor
Tapspace Publications
Jim Casella
Thom Hannum
Paul Rennick
Gary Rudolph
The Collective
Pete Retzlaff
Thorn The Netherlands
Nick Woud
Toca Percussion–A Kaman
Music Company
Ndugu Chancler
Intersections Duo
Trick Percussion
Dom Moio
University of Central Arkansas
Blake Tyson
University of Florida Center for World Arts
Marimba Ayin
The University of Iowa
Intersections Duo
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky Percussion Ensemble
University of North Texas
Christopher Deane
University of Science and Art of Chiapas
Tunkul
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Anthony DiSanza
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The Lehman College Music Department
Bronx, New York
Morris Lang, Director of Percussion Studies
The Ethos Percussion Group
Ensemble in Residence
Contact: Dr. Bernard Shockett, Chairman
Lehman College Music Department
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West,
Bronx, New York 10468
Tel: (718) 960-8247
Fax: (718) 960-7248
E-mail: music.department@lehman.cuny.edu
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U.S. Army
The Old Guard Fife & Drum Corps
Vancore
Ludwig Albert
Vater Percussion, Inc.
Brann Dailor
Dave DiCenso
Vic Firth, Inc.
Alex Acuña
Azle High School Percussion Ensemble
BataMbira
Ndugu Chancler
Grant Collins
Peter Erskine
So Percussion
Geraldo De Oliveira
Tim Genis
Omar Hakim
Thom Hannum
Stefon Harris
Lalo
Stuart Marrs
Stephen Primatic
Pete Retzlaff
Tomm Roland
Dave Weckl
Jack West
World Percussion Research Institute
XL Percussion
Dave Weckl
Xylosynth
Gary Rudolph
Yamaha Benelux
Ludwig Albert
Chin Cheng Lin
Jim Bailey
Ndugu Chancler
Robert Chappell
David Collier
Tim Genis
Josh Gottry
Stefon Harris
Steve Hemphill
David Herbert
Indiana University of PA Percussion Ensemble
Intersections Duo
Kristopher Keeton
Bret Kuhn
Stanley Leonard
Stuart Marrs
Panoramic
Fernando Rocha
Gary Rudolph
Liam Teague
Shiniti Ueno
Dave Weckl
John Wittmann
sponsors
restaurant guide
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Summit St.
Park St.
St.
St.
St.
4th
3
Ave.
E. Broad St.
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State St.
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N. E. Gay St.
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E. Town St.
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E. Main St.
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E. Rich St.
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S. 3rd
Mound St.
Exit
100B
Grant 3rd
E. Long St.
N. High
N. State
House
Fulton
Exit
100B
S. Downtown—Arena district
Adobe Gilas
$$
147 W. Vine Street • 614-241-GILA
www.adobegilas.com
Great casual Mexican-style cuisine.
bd’s mongolian barbeque
$$
295 Marconi Blvd. • 614-586-0077
www.gomongo.com
Create your own stir fry.
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
$
175 W. Nationwide Blvd. • 614-222-0947
www.benjerry.com
Vermont’s finest all natural ice cream.
Benevolence Café and Bakery $
41 W. Swan St. • 614-221-9330
www.benevolencecafe.com
Vegetarian soups, salads, and breads.
Buca di Beppo
$
343 N. Front St. • 614-621-EATS
www.bucadibeppo.com
Immigrant southern Italian, family style.
Carlile Club
445 N. High St. • 614-464-2582
www.carlile-club.com
Higher end brands of vodka and scotch sit upon glass, backlit shelves. It’s pretty, making patrons more inclined than usual to indulge in a cocktail.
Chipotle Mexican Grill
$
401 N. Front St. • 614-228-5488
www.chipotle.com
Gourmet burritos and tacos.
High
Downtown
BrownStone on Main $$
122 E. Main St. • 614-222-3005
www.brownstoneonmain.com
Serving upscale comfort food! Music in the lounge.
Cafe Brioso $
14 E. Gay St. (Corner of High and Gay)
614-228-8366 • www.cafebrioso.com
Downtown’s finest coffee roaster, bakery.
Confluence Park Restaurant $$
679 W. Spring St. • 614-469-0000
www.confluenceparkrestaurant.com
Upscale menu with great skyline view.
Due Amici
$$$
67 E. Gay St., Ste. 200 • 614-224-9373
www.due-amici.com
Old-world Italian food surrounded by
contemporary designs.
Elevator Brewery & Draught Haus
$$
161 N. High St. • 614-228-0500
www.elevvatorbrewing.com
Restaurant and microbrewery; four-star cuisine.
Flatiron Bar & Diner
$$
129 E. Nationwide Blvd. • 614-461-0033
www.flatironcolumbus.com
Salads, sandwiches, blue plates, Cajun, BBQ.
Florentine Restaurant
$$
907 W. Broad St. • 614-228-2262
www.florentinerestaurant.com
Fine Italian dining since 1945.
Indian Oven Restaurant
$$
427 E. Main St. • 614-220-9390
www.indianoven.com
Bengali and Indian cuisine.
M
$$$
2 Miranova Place, Ste. 100 • 614-629-0000
www.matmiranova.com
Upscale, contemporary, energetic and
dramatic. 21st century dining.
S. $ average entree is less than $10
$$ average entree is $10–$20
$$$ average entree is more than $20
670
St.
I German Village
Front
H Brewery District
N. G Short North District
St.
F DRURY INN & SUITES
Front
EHampton Inn
S. D Red Roof Inn
Marconi Blvd.
C Crowne Plaza
St.
B Hyatt Regency Columbus
Max & Erma’s Crowne Plaza
$$
G G
55 E. Nationwide Blvd. • 614-228-5555
www.maxandermas.com
Max & Erma’s has been serving all-American Hubbard Ave.
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favorites since 1972!
Mitchell’s Steakhouse
$$$
45 N. Third St. • 614-621-2333
www.mitchellssteakhouse.com
Nationally known steakhouse.
Morton’s The Steakhouse
$$$
280 N. High St. • 614-464-4442
www.mortons.com
Goodal
American cuisine.
e St.
Papa John’s Pizza $
Swan St.
1259 N. High St. • 614-421-1700
Spruce
St.E
www.papajohns.com
Pizza delivery and carryout.
Skambo $
A
31 E. Gay St. • 614-221-5555
www.skambo.com
Downtown cafe providing fine teas, specialty B
F
coffees, espresso, sandwiches and pastries.
Nationwide Blvd.
The Spaghetti Warehouse $
C
D
397 W. Broad St. • 614-464-0143
www.meatballs.com
Italian cuisine.
Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers
$
E. Spring St.
257 E. Broad St. • 614-464-4656
www.wendys.com
2nd
A Convention Center
H
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Cotters Restaurant $$$
www.cottersdining.com
Cotter’s restaurant presents fine casual
cuisine showcasing imaginative culinary concepts.
Gibby’s Arena District
$
51 Vine St. • 614-221-5550
www.gibbysbarandgrill.com
Wing lovers flock to this signature item, which includes BBQ and mild to extra hot, with
quantities from 10 to 50 a plate. Impressive appetizers, soup and salad selections.
Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant
$$$
401 N. High St. • 614-246-2900
www.gordonbiersch.com
Upscale casual dining with fresh brewed lagers.
Kooma Restaurant $$
37 Vine St. • 614-224-3239
Nice sushi place.
The Lodge Bar
$
165 Vine Street • 614-221-2824
www.thelodgebarcolumbus.com
Live bands, midget wrestling and so forth.
Market Stand Cafe
$
350 N. High St. • 614-463-1234
Casual, innovative American cuisine.
O’Shaughnessy’s Public House
$
401 N. Front St. #150 • 614-224-6767
www.ospub.com
Irish public house.
Red Star Tavern
www.redstartavern.net
Upscale comfort food, specialty martinis and extensive wine list are highlights at this updated version of the classic American tavern.
Ted’s Montana Grill
$$
191 W. Nationwide Blvd, St. 100 • 614-227-0013
www.tedsmontanagrill.com
Fresh-made beef or bison burgers.
Tyfoon Restaurant $$
106 Vine St. • 614-224-9219
Tyfoon Noodles and sushi.
Downtown—brewery district
Columbus Brewing Company
$$
525 Short St. • 614-464-2739
www.columbusbrewingco.com
Extraordinary food and hand-crafted beer.
Handke’s Cuisine
$$$
520 S. Front St. • 614-621-2500
www.chefhandke.com
Old World charm, global cuisine.
Pistachia Vera—the dessert boutique
$
541 S. 3rd St.• 614-220-9070
www.pistachiosweets.com
Distinctive desserts. Yummy treats. Divine delicacies.
Tony’s Italian Ristorante
$$$
16 W. Beck St. • 614-224-8669
www.tonysitalian.net
Italian cuisine.
restaurant guide
Downtown—convention center
All American Hamburgers $
Greater Columbus Convention Center
614-461-0587
Made to order, 100% fresh USDA hamburgers.
Charley’s Grilled Subs
$
614-460-8707
American cuisine. Fresh grilled subs.
Chicken ’n Eggs
$
614-461-8116
Breakfast and chicken dishes.
Fame’s Diner
$
614-451-1109
Breakfast served daily, fresh grilled subs.
Goodrich Ice Cream
$
614-224-0800
JaVa’s Cyber Espresso Bar
$
614-224-4676
Coffee, espresso, internet access.
$
Mykonos Gyros
614-463-9263
Greek specialities and pita sandwiches.
Noble Roman’s
$
The better pizza people.
Siam
$
614-461-8116
Authentic Thai and Chinese cuisine.
Subway
$
614-224-0800
Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse
$$
569 N. High St. • 614-224-2204
www.hydeparkrestaurants.com
Prime steaks, chops and seafood.
Japanese Steak House
$$
479 N. High St. • 614-228-3030
American/Japanese cuisine.
Martini Italian Bistro
$$
445 N. High St. • 614-224-8259
www.martini-italian-bistro.com
Contemporary Italian cuisine.
$
North Market
59 Spruce St. • 614-463-9664
www.northmarket.com
Central Ohio’s super market since 1876 (lots of places to eat in here, very close as well)
Paul Liu Chinese Restaurant
$$
570 N. High St. • 614-228-8889
Chinese cuisine.
R.J. Snappers
$$$
700 N. High St. • 614-280-1070
www.rjsnappers.com
Fresh seafood & steaks, top ten dining.
Rigsby’s Authentic Innovative
Italian Cuisine
$$$
698 N. High St. • 614-461-7888
www.rigsbyskitchen.com
Housemade pastas. Fresh seafood and steaks.
Zola’s Dining Lounge
$$$
782 N. High St. • 614-291-DINE
Four-star progressive American fusion food.
Downtown—short north
Abbracci $$$
511 N. High St. • 614-224-2373
Featuring fine Italian pastas and steaks.
Barley’s Brewing Company $$
467 N. High St. • 614-228-ALES
www.barleysbrewing.com
Hand-crafted ales & contemporary fare.
Betty’s Fine Food and Spirits
$
680 N. High St., • 614-228-6191
www.bettysfoodandspirits.com
Great food and drink selections at great prices.
Burgundy Room
$$
641 N. High St. • 614-464-9463
www.burgundyroom.net
The Burgundy Room is committed to serving the best wines and culinary delights.
Dragonfly Neo V Cuisine
$$
247 King Ave. • 614-298-9986
dragonflyneov.com
Tofu and vegan fusion cuisine.
Emack & Bolio’s
$
945 N. High St. • 614-291-5372
www.ebicecream.com
Ice cream for the connoisseur.
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convention center map
Convention
Center Level II
Convention Center Level I
HALL F
marching festival
E160
E162A
E161A
E150
●
D130
▲
HALL D
PASIC EXPO
C220
C223
C226
❖
C210
C111
C213
■
◆
CC Ballroom
Terrace
Concerts
● pasic show office
Wednesday 8:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Thursday–Saturday 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
❖PAS BOOTH
Hyatt Level I
UNION
FRANKLIN
FAIRFIELD
GRANT
GARFIELD
HARDING
Hyatt Level III
◆ pasic registration (CC B200)
Wednesday 7:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
REGENCY
BALLROOM
▲ pas gift shop
■PASIC LISTENING ROOM (C120)
Thursday–Saturday 8:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
12:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
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HAYES
convention center map
Schedule
of Events
7:30 a.m.
room b200
Registration opens
FOCUS DAY 2007
“Paukenzeit: Celebrating the Solo Timpanist”
Hosted by Michael Bump
Presented by the PAS New Music/Research Committee
9:00 a.m.
hyatt franklin room
The Agee/Van Hassel Percussion Duo March for Two Pairs of Kettledrums (1683)
by André/Jacques Philidor
Eric Hollenbeck, soloist Dunbar’s Delight (1985) by Robert Erickson
Sponsors: Innovative Percussion, Inc., Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical
Instruments
Shiniti Ueno, soloist Optical Time (1987) by Isao Matsushita
Sponsor: Yamaha Corporation of America
Kristopher Keeton, soloist Prelude No. 3 (1995) by Christopher Deane
Sponsors: Yamaha Corporation of America, Innovative Percussion, Inc.
Wednesday
October 31
Ryan C. Lewis, soloist Animism for Prepared Timpani and Tape (1995) by Stephen Ridley
Michael Bump, soloist with the Talujon Percussion Quartet Night Music (2007) by Raymond Helble. Premiere Performance
Bump Sponsors: Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Black Swamp
Percussion, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Mike Balter Mallets, Sabian, Ltd.
Talujon Sponsors: Black Swamp Percussion, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Mike Balter Mallets, Sabian, Ltd.
Douglas Nottingham, soloist d for Timpani and Computer (2007) by Barry Moon.
Premiere Performance 11:00 a.m.
hyatt union room
New York University Percussion Ensemble Schlagtrio fur Klavier und 2x3 Pauken
(1952 / rev. 1974) by Karlheinz Stockhausen
Sponsors: Pro-Mark Corporation, Kettles & Company, New York University, Pearl
Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Pre-Julliard College, Remo, Inc.
David Collier, soloist Partita for Solo Timpani (1973) by Carlos Chavez
Sponsors: Yamaha Corporation of America, Evans Drumheads, Grover Pro Percussion, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Latin Percussion, Sabian, Ltd.
Aiyun Huang, soloist Steal the Thunder (1984) by Jean Piché
Sponsors: McGill University, Canada Arts Council, Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Quebec Arts Council
Patrick Schleker, soloist with the Base4 Percussion Quartet
Concerto for Timpanist and Five Percussions (1988) by Akira Nishimura
Sponsor: Black Swamp Percussion
Aiyun Huang, soloist Six Japanese Gardens (1994) by Kaija Saariaho
Sponsors: McGill University, Canada Arts Council, Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Quebec Arts Council
Blake Tyson, soloist In Search of Three Goddesses (2007) by Halim El-Dabh.
World Premier
Sponsors: Pro-Mark Corporation, Avedis Zildjian Company, Kent State University Dept. of Pan-American Studies, University of Central Arkansas
12:30 p.m.
hyatt franklin room
duo Anime Plagal Alternations (1979) by Marshall Griffith
Sponsor: Professional Percussion Products
Jonathan Haas & Matthew Donello, soloists Conversations (rev. 1986) by John Serry Jr.
Sponsors: Pro-Mark Corporation, Kettles & Company, New York University, Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments,
Pre-Julliard College, Remo, Inc.
Eric Willie, soloist Domino III (1990) by Philippe Boivin
Sponsors: Innovative Percussion, Inc., Black Swamp Percussion, Evans Drumheads, Sabian, Ltd.
Fernando Hashimoto, soloist Reflexos (1990) by Silvia DeLucca
Sponsors: Pro-Mark Corporation, Avedis Zildjian Company, Campinas State University
Christopher Deane, soloist Rhythm Gradation (1993) by Toshi Ichiyanagi
Sponsor: University of North Texas
2:00 p.m.
convention center room c111
lecture/demonstration
Jan Williams & Stuart Marrs, presenters“Eight Pieces for Four Timpani”by Elliott Carter
Sponsors: Vic Firth, Inc., Yamaha Corporation of America
3:15 p.m.
hyatt franklin room
showcase concert
Dr. Harrison Powley, presenter “Multiple Timpani Works from the 18th and early 19th Centuries: An Introduction” Lecture Presentation
David Collier, soloist with the Westerville Symphony Orchestra Symphonie mit acht obligaten Pauken (ca. 1786) by Johann
Carl Christian Fischer
Sponsors: Yamaha Corporation of America, Evans Drumheads, Grover Pro Percussion, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Latin Percussion,
Sabian, Ltd.
4:00 p.m.
hyatt union room
showcase concert
Michael Bump, soloist with the Talujon Percussion Quartet Studie II: Epthyic (2005) by Michael Bump
Bump Sponsors: Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Black Swamp Percussion, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Mike Balter
Mallets, Sabian, Ltd.
Talujon Sponsors: Black Swamp Percussion, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Mike Balter Mallets, Sabian, Ltd.
Zumbumba Percussion Trio Foforo Twene (2007) by Zumbumba. Premiere Performance
8:00 p.m.
convention center ballroom
evening concert
Welcome by Lisa Rogers
David Herbert, soloist with the University of Akron Symphony Orchestra Concerto No. 2 for Timpani and Orchestra “The Grand Encounter” (2004 / rev. 2006) by William Kraft
Sponsors: Yamaha Corporation of America, California Percussion LLC, Evans Drumheads
Jonathan Haas and Doug Howard, soloists with the University of Akron Symphony Orchestra Concerto Fantasy for Two
Timpanists and Orchestra (2000) by Philip Glass
Sponsors: Pro-Mark Corporation, Kettles & Company, New York University, Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Pre-Julliard
College, Remo, Inc.
Schedule
of Events
Thursday
November 1
7:30 a.m.
rEGISTRATION OPENS
room b200
8:00 a.m.
LISTENING ROOM OPENS
Convention Center Room C110
Marching Percussion Committee Meeting Neal Flum, chair
Hyatt Grant Room
health & wellness Committee Meeting Dr. Darin Workman, chair
Hyatt Harding Room
9:00 a.m.
Rafael Pereira and the GSU PE ensemble World Master Class
Brazilian Batucada Workshop & Master Class
Sponsors: Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Georgia State University
solo marimba competition Coordinator: Chris Hanning. Judges: Anders Astrand,
Kevin Bobo, Thomas Burritt, Christopher Deane, Beverly Johnston, William Moersch
Convention Center Room E150
Azle High School Percussion Ensemble Showcase Concert
Presider: Ricky Burkhead, University of Mississippi
Sponsors: Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Vic Firth, Inc.
Hyatt Union Room
10:00 a.m.
University of Kentucky Percussion Ensemble Showcase Concert
Presider: Dan Moore, University of Iowa
Sponsor: University of Kentucky
Convention Center Ballroom
PETE RETZLAFF Drumset Clinic
Sponsors: Avedis Zildjian Company, The Collective, Remo, Inc., Vic Firth, Inc.
Neil Grover Symphonic Tambourine & Triangle Lab
Presider: Keith Aleo, Avedis Zildjian Company
Sponsors: Grover Pro Percussion, Avedis Zildjian Company
Convention Center Room D130
PAS Education Committee Panel Discussion Moderator: Paul Buyer.
Panelists: John Brennan, Mark Ford, Rich Holly, John W. Parks, IV, Jim Royle
Building a Powerhouse Percussion Program
11:00 a.m.
Dahui—Ensemble du Rhythm Terrace Concert
Sponsor: Remo, Inc.
Connector between Hyatt and Convention Center
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
Hyatt Hayes Room
12:00 p.m.
Ear Massage Percussion Ensemble Showcase Concert
Sponsors: Sabian, Ltd., Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments
Jon Metzger Keyboard Clinic
Combining and Applying Improvisation Techniques on Vibraphone
Presider: Christopher Deane, University of North Texas
Sponsors: Ludwig & Musser a division of Conn-Selmer, Inc., Pro-Mark Corporation
Tom Stubbs Symphonic Cymbals Lab
Sponsors: Avedis Zildjian Company, Beall Percussion Specialties
pas marching committee presentation Panelists: Jim Casella, Thom Hannum,
Paul Rennick
Virtual Masters
Casella Sponsors: Tapspace Publications, Avedis Zildjian Company, Hal Leonard
Corporation, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical
Instruments, Remo, Inc., Sibelius USA
Rennick Sponsors: Tapspace Publications, Avedis Zildjian Company, Dynasty USA/DEG Music Products, Inc., Innovative Percussion, Inc.
Hannum Sponsors: Tapspace Publications, Avedis Zildjian Company, Evans Drumheads, Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Vic Firth, Inc.
Scholarly Research Committee Meeting Tom Nevill, chair
Hyatt Garfield Room
drumset Committee Meeting Jim Rupp, chair
Hyatt Grant Room
1:00 p.m.
Ronald Bruner, Jr. Drumset Clinic
Presider: Gene Provincio, Tama Drums
Sponsors: Tama Drums , Pro-Mark Corporation, Sabian, Ltd.
Hyatt Regency Ballroom
Brian Mason and Terri Haley Health & Wellness Workshop
Common Injuries for Percussionists Prevention, Recognition, and Treatment
Presider: Darin Workman
Nick Woud Symphonic Clinic
Is There a European Timpani Concept?
Presider: John Tafoya, Indiana University
Sponsors: Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Thorn The Netherlands
Hyatt Union Room
New Music/Research Committee meeting Eugene Novotney, chair
Hyatt Harding Room
2:00 p.m.
Mika Yoshida with guests Richard Stoltzman (Clarinet), Eddie Gomez(Bass), Peter Stoltzman (Piano) and Bill Cahn
(percussion). Keyboard Showcase Concert
Spirit of John Wyre
Presider: Bill Cahn, Nexus
Sponsors: DeMorrow Instruments Ltd., Pro-Mark Corporation
Dom Moio Drumset Master Class
Jazz Soloing Concepts
Presider: Mike Dorfman, Trick Percussion Products
Sponsors: Sabian, Ltd., Evans Drumheads, Latin Percussion, Regal Tip/Calato Mfg., Trick Percussion Products, Inc.
Rob Ferguson Marching Clinic
Amplifying the Front Ensemble—How to and How Much?
Presider: Allan Murray, Dynasty USA/DEG Music Products, Inc.
Sponsors: Dynasty USA/DEG Music Products, Inc., Innovative Percussion, Inc.
PERCUSSION MOCK AUDITION. Coordinator: John Tafoya. Judges: Keith Aleo, Christopher Deviney, Bill Platt, James Ross, Tom Stubbs
Stephen Primatic Paper Presentation
Maracas in the Venezualan Joropo: A Proposed Pedagogical Notational Sysytem
Presider: Garwood Whaley, Meredith Music Publications
Sponsors: Armstrong Atlantic State University, Meredith Music Publications, Vic Firth, Inc.
Liam Teague and Robert Chappell with Panoramic World Showcase Concert
Liam Teague + Robert Chappell + Panoramic
Presider: John Wittman, Yamaha Corporation of America
Sponsors: Yamaha Corporation of America, Latin Percussion, Mike Balter Mallets, NIU School of Music, Pro-Mark Corporation, Sabian, Ltd.
Hyatt Franklin Room
College Pedagogy Committee meeting Alison Shaw, chair
Hyatt Garfield Room
3:00 p.m.
Walfredo Reyes Jr. Drumset Clinic
Global Beats for Drumset & Percussion
Presider: Joe Hibbs, Mapex USA, Inc.
Sponsors: Mapex USA, Inc., Latin Percussion, Regal Tip/Calato Mfg., Remo, Inc., Roland Corporation US, Sabian, Ltd.
Jim Bailey and Gary Rudolph Electronic/Technology Clinic
Beyond the Metronome
Bailey Sponsors: Evans Drumheads, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Sabian, Ltd., Yamaha Corporation of America
Rudolph Sponsors: Evans Drumheads, Chops Percussion, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Sabian, Ltd., Sweetwater Sound, Tapspace Publications, Xylosynth, Yamaha Corporation of America
Tim Genis Symphonic Clinic/Performance
The Auditioning Timpanist: The Steps to Perfection
Sponsors: Vic Firth, Inc., Avedis Zildjian Company, Remo, Inc., Yamaha Corporation of America
Hyatt Union Room
St. X Jungle Drummers Percussion Ensemble Terrace Concert
Sponsor: St. Xavier High School
international Committee meeting Frederic Macarez, chair
Hyatt Grant Room
world Committee meeting Kenyon Williams, chair
Hyatt Harding Room
Schedule
of Events
Thursday
November 1
4:00 p.m.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Percussion Ensemble directed by Michael Kingan Percussion Ensemble Literature Session
Presider: David Eyler, Concordia College
Sponsors: Indiana University of Pennsylvania–College of Fine Arts/ Dept. of Music,
Innovative Percussion, Inc., JW Pepper Sheet Music, Yamaha Corporation of America
PAS World Percussion Committee Panel Discussion Moderator: Jeff Jones.
Panelists: Michael Bakan, Rob Falvo, Liam Teague, Allen Teel, Paschal Younge
World Music Ensembles in Percussion Education: Issues, Concepts and Perspectives
5:00 p.m.
Grant Collins Drumset Clinic/Performance
Independence & Beyond
Presider: Mike Farris, Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments
Sponsors: Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Avedis Zildjian Company, Vic Firth, Inc.
marching competition—high school & college tenors
marching competition—college keyboard
marching competition—high school keyboard & high school and college
timpani
marching competition—college snares
Hyatt Union Room
marching competition—high school snares
Hyatt Franklin Room
8:00 p.m.
EVENING CONCERT
Welcome by Steve Houghton
Emmanuel Sejourne and Anne-Julie Caron
Sponsor: Strasbourg Conservatory
Eolsigu! Korean Traditional Drumming and More
Sponsors: Korean Music College of Chung Ang University, Sacheon International
Percussion Festival Committee, World Percussion Research Institute
9:30 p.m.
Craig Woodson Drum Circle
Roots of Rhythm: Global Percussion
Sponsor: Ethnomusic, Inc.
10:00 p.m.
yumbambe Late Night Performance
Hyatt Bar on 2
Schedule
of Events
Friday
November 2
7:30 a.m.
rEGISTRATION OPENS
room b200
8:00 a.m.
welcome drum call
education Committee Meeting Paul Buyer, chair
Hyatt Garfield Room
music technology Committee Meeting Michael Schutz, chair
Hyatt Grant Room
collegiate Committee Meeting Lynn Francis Ragsdale, chair
Hyatt Hayes Room
symphonic Committee Meeting John Tafoya, chair
Hyatt Fairfield Room
8:30 a.m.
welcome drum call
9:00 a.m.
Andrew M. Bliss Poster Presentation
20th Century Blacksmith: David Lang and the Forging of The Anvil Chorus
Sponsors: Black Swamp Percussion, Sibelius USA
Darin Workman Health & Wellness Workshop
Tell Me Where it Hurts—Injuries of the Arm and Shoulder
David Kuckhermann World Clinic
Iranian Percussion Tradition & Application of Playing Techniques to Other Hand Drums
Presider: Rick Walker, Loop.pooL
Sponsor: Cooperman Company
PAS Health & Wellness Committee Free Hearing Tests
Chris Hanning and Drew Lang Professional Development Session
The Secrets of Successful Freelancing
Presider: Gary Cook, University of Arizona
Sponsors: Pro-Mark Corporation, Avedis Zildjian Company, Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Remo, Inc.
Oak Mountain High School Percussion Ensemble Showcase Concert
Presider: Michael Burritt, Northwestern University
Sponsor: Oak Mountain High School
Hyatt Union Room
10:00 a.m.
MARCHING PERCUSSION FESTIVAL: OPENING CEREMONY, COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING, STANDSTILL AND SMALL ENSEMBLE COMPETITION AND AWARDS
Convention Center Hall F
The Florida State University Percussion Ensemble Showcase Concert
Presider: Erik Johnson, Innovative Percussion, Inc.
Sponsors: Avedis Zildjian Company, Grover Pro Percussion, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Remo, Inc.
Dave DiCenso Drumset Master Class
Universal Rhythms: Simplifying the Creative Process
Presider: John DeChristopher, Avedis Zildjian Company
Sponsors: Avedis Zildjian Company, Drum Workshop, Inc., Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Remo, Inc., Vater Percussion, Inc.,
PAS Symphonic Committee Panel Discussion Moderator: Michael Rosen.
Panelists: Keith Aleo, Hudie Broughton, Ruth Cahn, Morris Palter
A Percussion Degree: Preparation for Life
Presider: Larry Snider, University of Akron
Tunkul World Clinic/Performance
PreHispanic Instruments from the Mexico Area
Presider: Dr. Thomas J. Nevill, University of Texas–Brownsville
Sponsor: University of Science and Art of Chiapas
Hyatt Franklin Room
11:00 a.m.
Dave Weckl Drumset Clinic
Foundation, Foundation, Foundation
Sponsors: Sabian, Ltd., Latin Percussion, The Music Sales Group, Remo, Inc., Shure, Vic Firth, Inc., XL Percussion, Yamaha Corporation
of America
Anthony Di Sanza Education Clinic
Improvisational Practice Techniques: Creatively Incorporating Improvisation into the Percussionist’s Daily Practice Routine
Presider: Nick Petrella, Sabian, Ltd.
Sponsors: Sabian, Ltd., Black Swamp Percussion, Pro-Mark Corporation, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Alan Abel Symphonic Snare Drum Lab
Presider: Chris Deviney, Philadelphia Orchestra
Sponsor: Sabian, Ltd.
Intersections Duo World Clinic/Performance
Intersections: The Art of Duo
Presider: John Wittmann, Yamaha Corporation of America
Sponsors: Musiconnect Ltd.–Malta, Gibraltar Hardware, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Latin Percussion, Paiste America, Inc., Toca Percussion–
A Kaman Music Company, The University of Iowa, Yamaha Corporation of America
Hyatt Union Room
board of directors Meeting
Hyatt Hayes Room
12:00 p.m.
Marta Klimasara Keyboard Showcase Concert
Presider: Leigh Howard Stevens, Malletech/Mostly Marimba
Sponsor: Malletech/Mostly Marimba
PAS College Pedagogy Panel Discussion Moderator: Alison Shaw. Panelists: Allen Otte, Salvatore Rabbio, Gordon Stout
The Pedagogy of Great Musicianship
Giovanni hidalgo
Sponsors: Latin Percussion, Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., Avedis Zildjian Company, Evans Drumheads
Hyatt Franklin Room
Marcus Santos & BatukAxe Terrace Concert
AfroBrazilian Percussion Music
Presider: Memo Acevedo, Latin Percussion
Sponsors: Latin Percussion, Jag Drums
drumset committee meeting Jim Rupp, Chair
Hyatt Grant Room
Contest and Audition Procedures Committee meeting Chris Hanning, chair
Hyatt Harding Room
1:00 p.m.
J.J. Johnson Drumset Clinic
Sponsors: Ludwig & Musser a division of Conn-Selmer, Inc., Avedis Zildjian Company, Pro-Mark Corporation
Hyatt Ballroom
David Frego, Ph. D. Recreational Drumming Workshop
Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Experiencing Rhythm in Your Whole Body
Presider: Dr. Susan Powell, The Ohio State University
Mike Quinn Paper Presentation
Orchestral Percussion Practice in 19th Century Italy
Presider: Bruce Perry, Sabian, Ltd.
Sponsors: Sabian Ltd., Cooperman Company, Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments
Stefon Harris Keyboard Clinic/Performance
The Art of Listening
Presider: Neil Larivee, Vic Firth, Inc.
Sponsors: Vic Firth, Inc., Yamaha Corporation of America
Hyatt Union Room
composition contest committee meeting Mark Dorr, chair
Hyatt Garfield Room
percussion ensemble committee meeting Daniel Moore, chair
Hyatt Grant Room
chapter presidents meeting
Hyatt Hayes Room
Schedule
of Events
Friday
November 2
2:00 p.m.
Alan Abel, John H. Beck, Anthony Cirone, Arnie Lang, Stanley Leonard,
Salvatore Rabbio, Gerald Unger Symphonic Emeritus Concert
Presider: Michael G. Kenyon, Percussive Arts Society
PAS Drumset committee panel discussion Moderator: Jim Rupp.
Panelists: Alex Acuña, Ndugu Chancler, Peter Erskine, Skip Hadden, Omar Hakim,
Chester Thompson
Drummers of Weather Report
Nataraj Amrit accompanied by Antonio Malatesta, N. Scott Robinson and
K.S. Resmi World Clinic
Modern Kanjira in South Indian Music
Presider: N. Scott Robinson
Sponsor: N. Scott Robinson
Hyatt Franklin Room
recreational drumming committee meeting Bob Bloom, Chair
Hyatt Harding Room
3:00 p.m.
Lewis Nash Drumset Clinic
The MVP Mindset
Presider: John De Christopher, Avedis Zildjian Company
Sponsors: Avedis Zildjian Company, Regal Tip/Calato Mfg., Remo, Inc., Sonor Hyatt Regency Ballroom
Fernando Rocha Electronic/Technology Clinic/Performance
Performing with Computer Based Electronics
Sponsors: Yamaha Corporation of America, McGill University CIRMMT—(Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology) Convention Center Room C210
Christopher Deviney Symphonic Keyboard Lab
Presider: Sean LaFreuz, Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments
Sponsors: Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Innovative
Percussion, Inc.
Fort Lewis College Percussion Ensemble World Showcase Concert
The American Gamelan of Lou Harrison
Sponsors: Fort Lewis College Animus Music Festival, Music in the Mountains
Festival Orchestra
Hyatt Union Room
Keyboard Committee Meeting Michael Burritt, chair
Hyatt Farfield Room
4:00 p.m.
Anne-Julie Caron Keyboard Clinic/Performance
Sponsor: Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments
John wyre memorial World Lecture/Presentation
Celebrating the life of John Wyre
PAS Recreational Drumming Panel Discussion Moderator: Bob Bloom.
Panelists: Joanne Eubanks, Eric Paton.
NEW GIGS ON THE BLOCK Get certified in your state as a “Teaching Artist”
college drumset educator forum
Hyatt Grant Room
5:00 p.m.
Omar Hakim Drumset Clinic
Sponsors: Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Avedis Zildjian
Company, Remo, Inc., Vic Firth, Inc.
6:00 p.m.
hall of fame cocktail hour
Convention Center Ballroom Lobby
7:00 p.m.
hall of fame banquet honoring anthony cirone, warren “Baby” dodds, and steve reich
9:00 p.m.
Evening Concert
Welcome by Rich Holly
Naná Vasconcelos with Trio Manari
Manari Nana: O Encontro dos Tambores (Meeting of the Drums)
Presiders: Ricardo Souza, University of Oklahoma and Greg Beyer, Northern Illinois University
Sponsors: Latin Percussion, Governo do Estado do Para Secretaria de Cultura
9:30 p.m.
Dave Wonsey Drum Circle
Presider: John Fitzgerald, Remo, Inc.
10:00 p.m.
Panyard Steel Orchestra Late Night Performance
Sponsors: Panyard, Avedis Zildjian Company, Evans Drumheads, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical
Instruments, Pro-Mark Corporation, Remo, Inc., Row-Loff Productions
Hyatt Bar on Two
Schedule
of Events
Saturday
November 3
7:30 a.m.
rEGISTRATION OPENS
room b200
8:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
Ryan C. Lewis Poster Presentation
Variety & Diversity in the Life Times & Music of George Hamilton Green Convention Center Room C110
Jimmie Morales World Clinic/Performance
Presider: Matt Connors, Remo, Inc.
Sponsor: Remo, Inc.
Steve Hemphill Timpani FUNdamentals
Presider: John Wittmann, Yamaha Corporation of America
Lassiter High School Percussion Ensemble Showcase Concert
Presider: James Campbell, University of Kentucky
Sponsors: Avedis Zildjian Company, Remo, Inc., Ross Mallet Instruments/Majestic
Percussion, Vic Firth, Inc.
Hyatt Union Room
10:00 a.m.
Northwestern University Percussion Ensemble Showcase Concert
Presider: Dan Moore, University of Iowa
Sponsor: Northwestern University
PAS health & WELLNESS PANEL DISCUSSION
Injury Panel with the Pros
Mi Youne kim Showcase Concert
2007 Universal Marimba Competition and Festival, Belgium Winner
Sponsor: Marimba One
Hyatt Franklin Room
WORLD PERCUSSION COMMITTEE MEETING Kenyon Williams, chair
Hyatt Grant Room
11:00 a.m.
Billy Martin Drumset Clinic
Rhythmic Sensibility & Improvisation
Sponsors: Avedis Zildjian Company, Attack Drum Heads, Regal Tip/Calato Mfg.
John Wittmann Professional Development Session
Paths, Presence and Future—Finding Your Way in the Music Industry
Presider: Dennis DeLucia
Josh Gottry Keyboard FUNdamentals
Presider: Pete DeSalvo
Sponsors: Mike Balter Mallets, C. Alan Publications, Yamaha Corporation of America
Andy Narell World Clinic
Hyatt Union Room
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
Hyatt Garfield Room, Hyatt Grant Room, Hyatt Hayes Room
12:00 p.m.
Mike Mcintosh with the Bluecoats Drumline Marching Clinic/Performance
Digital and Acoustic Alchemy for the Modern Marching Percussion Ensemble
Presider: Erik Johnson, Innovative Percussion, Inc.
Sponsors: Yamaha Corporation of America, Avedis Zildjian Company, Evans Drumheads, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Latin Percussion,
Sibelius USA, Tapspace Publications
Kevin Bobo Keyboard Clinic/Performance
Advanced Techniques for the Modern Marimbist
Presider: Gordon Stout, G & C Music
Sponsors: Malletech/Mostly Marimba, Avedis Zildjian Company
Homero Ceron, Fernando Hashimoto, Enrique “Kique” Infante and Javier Nandayapa Professional Development Session
Abriendo caminos, sobreviviendo como músico. Opening paths, surviving as a musician. Four panelists from different Latin-American countries and backgrounds, discuss building a performing career in modern times. Anything from public relations, publicity, drawing contracts and dealing with prospect presenters will be addressed. This session will be conducted primarily in Spanish. Limited Spanish speakers are welcome.
PAS Collegiate Committee Panel Discussion Moderator: Dr. Stephen Hemphill. Panelists: Nathan Daughtrey, Cort McClaren, Staci Stokes
I Graduated with a Music Degree. Now What?
Ganesh Kumar and T H Subash Chandran WITH GUEST Tomm Roland World Clinic/Performance
South Indian Rhythms: Complexities & Techniques
Presider: Mr. Cameron Flint, Sankara Music Academy
Kumar and Chandran Sponsors: Sankara Music Academy, Cooperman Company
Roland Sponsors: Avedis Zildjian Company, Mountain Rhythym, Vic Firth, Inc.
Hyatt Franklin Room
1:00 p.m.
Brann Dailor Drumset Clinic
Sponsors: Meinl USA, Tama Drums, Evans Drumheads, Vater Percussion, Inc.
Geraldo De Oliveira World Workshop
Brazilian Pandeiro from Choro & Beyond
Sponsors: Vic Firth, Inc., Remo, Inc.
Bret Kuhn Snare Drum FUNdamentals
Presider: John Wittmann
Sponsors: Yamaha Corporation of America, Avedis Zildjian Company, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Remo, Inc.
So Percussion Group Showcase Concert
Collaboration & Creativity: New Music with Percussion Instruments
Sponsors: Vic Firth, Inc., Avedis Zildjian Company, Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments
Hyatt Union Room
Committee chairs Meeting
Hyatt Hayes Room
2:00 p.m.
BataMbira (B. Michael Williams, Michael Spiro, Jesus Diaz, Sylvian Leroux, Colin Douglas and Adam Snow) World Showcase Concert
A Marriage of Sacred Music from Cuba and Zimbabwe
Presider: Memo Acevedo, Latin Percussion
Sponsors: Kaman Music Company, Evans Drumheads, Latin Percussion, Sabian, Ltd., Vic Firth, Inc.
Diaz Sponsor: Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments
Joel Spencer Drumset Master Class
Exploration of Modern Jazz Drumming Techniques
Presider: Colin Schofield, Premier Percussion, Ltd.,
Sponsors: Premier Percussion, Ltd., Avedis Zildjian Company, Regal Tip/Calato Mfg.
Dean Borghesani Symphonic Timpani Lab
Heather Sloan Paper Presentation
The Other World Music: Percussion as Purveyor of Cultural Cues in Exotic Louge Music
Presider: Laura Franklin, Brevard College
Schedule
of Events
Saturday
November 3
3:00 p.m.
Ndugu Chancler Drumset Clinic
A Drumming Career
Sponsors: Yamaha Corporation of America, Paiste America, Inc., Remo, Inc., Shure,
Toca Percussion–A Kaman Music Company, Vic Firth, Inc.
Rick Walker Electronic/Technology Clinic/Performance
Live Looping techniques for the Multiple Percussionist/Trapset Drummer
Presider: Patrick Cooperman, Cooperman Company
Sponsors: Cooperman Company, Looperlative
Fred Bugbee Accessories FUNdamentals
Sponsors: Pro-Mark Corporation, Evans Drumheads, Grover Pro Percussion,
New Mexico State University
The Old Guard Fife & Drum Corps Drumline Marching Clinic
Traditional Rudimental Drumming as a Contemporary Art Form
Presider: SFC Richard Ruddle, U.S. Army
Sponsor: U.S. Army
Hyatt Union Room
4:00 p.m.
Ludwig Albert and Chin Cheng Lin Keyboard Showcase Concert
Global Marimba: Ludwig Albert and Chin Cheng Lin
Sponsors: Yamaha Benelux, Beurskens Music Editions, Innovative Percussion, Inc., Ministry of Culture Belgium, Pearl Corporation and Adams Musical Instruments, Vancore
Marimba Ayin Terrace Concert
Baila Mi Corazon: The Beauty of the Guatemalan Marimba
Sponsor: University of Florida Center for World Arts
5:00 p.m.
Peter Erskine and Alex Acuña Drumset Clinic
Erskine Sponsors: Avedis Zildjian Company, Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., Drum
Workshop, Inc., Evans Drumheads, Latin Percussion, Puresound, Shure, Vic Firth, Inc.
Acuña Sponsors: Avedis Zildjian Company, Drum Workshop, Inc., Evans Drumheads,
Gon Bops, Vic Firth, Inc.
last drum call/goodbye columbus
Outside Exhibit Hall C
8:00 p.m.
EVENING CONCERT
Welcome by Gary Cook
Andy Narell Group featuring Luis Conte, Jimmy Branly, Dario Eskenazi, Gregory Jones
10:00 p.m.
Jack West & Lalo Late Night Performance
Presider: Neil Larrivee, Vic Firth, Inc.
Sponsors: Vic Firth, Inc., Alternate Mode, Inc.
Hyatt Bar on 2
Alan Abel
Friday, 11:00 a.m., Friday 2:00 p.m.
Alan Abel, former associate principal percussionist of
the Philadelphia Orchestra, retired in 1997 after thirty
years of service. He graduated from the Eastman School
of Music and was a part time member of the Rochester
Philharmonic while there. After two years in a U.S. Air
Force Band, he joined the Oklahoma City Symphony
where he was principal percussionist for six years
before going to Philadelphia in 1959. Abel has taught
graduate students at Temple University for thirty-four
years and at Rutgers University for five. Abel served on
the PAS Board of Directors, was inducted into the PAS Hall of Fame in 1998, and became
chairman of the PAS Symphonic Committee at its inception. He has compiled two books on
orchestral studies for timpani and percussion and has designed and produced symphonic
triangles and bass drum stands that are used throughout the world.
ALEX ACUNA
Saturday, 5:00 p.m.
Born into a musically inspirational family, Alex Acuña
moved to Lima, Peru as a teenager and became an
accomplished session drummer, performing on many
recording projects for artists as well as in film and television productions. In 1967, he moved to Puerto Rico to
work as a studio musician and play locally. During this
period, he also studied for three years at the Puerto Rico
Conservatory of Music, playing as a classical percussionist with the symphony orchestra under the direction
of the Pablo Casals. Acuña moved to Las Vegas in 1974,
where he played with such greats as Elvis Presley and Diana Ross. Between 1975 and
1977, he performed as both drummer and percussionist with Weather Report. He recorded
two albums with the group: Black Market (1976) and Heavy Weather (1977). He next moved
to Los Angeles, California, where he quickly earned the position of a session drummer
and percussionist for recordings, television, and motion pictures. His countless recording
credits include work with such diverse artists as U2, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Ella
Fitzgerald, Sergio Mendes, Yellow Jackets, Julio Iglesias, Placido Domingo, Wayne Shorter,
and Joe Zawinul. Acuña has also performed live with the likes of Al Jarreau, Roberta Flack,
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock, Christina Aguilera, and Tito Puente.
Additionally, he has recorded film scores under the direction of Dave Grusin, Alan Silvestri,
Michele Legrand, Bill Conti, Marvin Hamlish, Mark Isham, John Williams, and Lalo Schiffrin.
He has received countless awards and honors including the Emeritus MVP award from
NARAS (National Academy of Recording for the Arts and Sciences). Acuña also presents
clinics and master classes worldwide. He has recorded four solo instructional videos and
has provided seminars at such universities as the University of California-Los Angeles and
Berklee School of Music in Boston.
The Agee/Van Hassel Duo
Wednesday, 9:00 a.m.
Formed in 2004, The Agee/Van Hassel Duo, consisting of Kristin Agee and Joseph Van Hassel, is based in Ohio. They have enjoyed several performances of their own arrangements,
commissions, and standards in the repertoire. In 2006, the duo performed the world premiere of Trudge Blasted
Exotic for two multi-percussionists by composer
Dan Van Hassel. In 2007,
they were invited to
perform at a new music
series in Boston, Massachusetts. Kristin Agee is
currently a graduate
teaching assistant at
Ohio University, pursuing a master of music
degree in percussion performance. She holds a bachelor of music degree in percussion
performance from Ohio University as well. During the summer of 2006, Agee spent a week
in Toronto, Canada, studying percussion with the members of the NEXUS, where she performed Steve Reich’s Drumming under the direction of Russell Hartenberger. She has also
performed with the Ohio Valley and River Cities Symphony Orchestras. Joseph Van Hassel earned his bachelor of music in percussion performance, from Ohio
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University. While at the University, he had the opportunity to perform with Roland Vazquez,
Bernard Woma, Doug Walter, Mark Stone, Paschal Younge, Allen Vizzuti, Anthony Di
Sanza, Payton MacDonald, and the Ethos Percussion Group. He has performed at Carnegie
Hall in New York City, the OMEA Conference in Cleveland, and the CMENC conference in
Cincinnati. He has performed in the percussion sections of the River Cities and Ohio Valley
Symphonies, and is involved with an upcoming recording of works by Tan Dun and Lou Harrison. Van Hassel is currently pursuing a master of music degree in percussion performance
at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he studies with James
Culley and Allen Otte. Ludwig Albert
Saturday, 4:00 p.m.
As a marimba specialist, Ludwig Albert studied at the
Royal Conservatory of Music in Antwerp, where he now
serves as professor of marimba. He also studied with
Keiko Abe at the Toho Gakuan Music School in Tokyo,
Japan. Albert enjoys collaboration with artists, and is a
celebrated chamber musician and composer. In 1995, he
founded the duo Patrasche for marimba and voice. The
duo’s first recording Japanese Impressions received
excellent reviews. The ensemble’s second recording Impressions of the low-countries will be released in 2009. In
1996, Albert founded the organization Marimba Projects
in order to facilitate events and develop pedagogical projects to showcase the marimba. In
2001, he organized the Universal Marimba Competition and Festival of Belgium and continues today as the artistic director. In 2007, he plans to continue his artistic direction duties
and perform abroad at European and Asian festivals. Albert also plans to record a new
compact disc featuring the recently formed ensemble, the Flanders Marimba Masters Ensemble. He has presented concerts and master classes at festivals and universities in such
countries as Belgium, Spain, France, Argentina, Mexico, Russia, Japan, Columbia, Austria,
Croatia, Hungary, Brazil, America, China, Taiwan, Australia, Netherlands, Korea, Germany,
and Italy. Albert currently is the founder and president of the PAS Chapter in Belgium.
NATARAJ AMRIT
Friday, 2:00 p.m.
Nataraj Amrit is a disciple of kanjira master G. Harishankar. Amrit’s kanjira & mridangam performances can be
heard on All India Radio. He studied mridangam with Sri
M. Vasudeava Rao and Sri A. V. Anand. He is highly experienced in both the traditional Carnatic music of South
India and fusion, having worked with all of the top vocal
and instrumental artists in tours and recordings across
India, Malaysia, Europe, and the South Pacific. Artists he
has worked with include Karaikudi R. Mani, L. Subramaniam, Ganesh & Kumaresh, the Laya Mudhura ensemble
led by Thiruvarur Bhakthsavatsalam, T. M. Krishnan, O.
S. Thyagarajan, U. K. Sivaraman, and N. Raju. Amrit has been awarded such prestigious
awards and titles in Indian classical music as Yuva Kala Bharathi, Aryabhata Youth Award,
Kanjira Parveena, Ananya Yuva Puraskara, and Sallari Gana Laya Vitthgar.
AZLE HIGH SCHOOL PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
Thursday, 9:00 a.m.
Located northwest of Fort Worth, the Azle High School Percussion Ensemble, under the
direction of Darrin Duff, consists of thirty-two students in grades nine through twelve. Azle
placed third last year in the standstill division of the 2006 PASIC Marching Percussion Festival in Austin.
Darrin Duff is in his
fifth year at Azle High
School where he is the
associate director of
bands. Along with his
duties as the district
percussion coordinator,
he also conducts the
wind ensemble and
co-conducts the honors
band. Duff is a graduate
of Kansas State University, where he studied with Dr. James Strain. He is a former member
of the Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps and a staff member of the Texas Ambassadors of
Music European Tour.
artists and clinicians
JIM BAILEY
Thursday, 3:00 p.m.
Jim Bailey has served as instructor, and was eventually
promoted to associate caption head for the six-time
world champion Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps from
2002 to 2005. He has also worked with other drum corps
including the Blue Knights, Phantom Regiment, and
Blue Stars. In 2005, Bailey co-founded, instructed, and
composed for the Indianapolis Independent Percussion
Ensemble (I-2). His percussion ensembles have captured multiple Indiana state titles in both concert and
marching class as well as a WGI title in 2002. His clinics
and performances have been seen across the United States and abroad. Bailey currently
serves as educator relations manager for D’Addario and Company, where his daily responsibilities include educator and artist relations duties as well as product development and
marketing tasks.
Base4 Percussion Quartet
Members of the Base4 Quartet are Andy Bliss, Steve Lundin, John Pobojewski, and Pat
Schleker. The group aims to bridge the gap between modern music and the modern audience, performing and
commissioning works
that are on the cutting
edge of the art form and
entertaining. From the
familiar idioms of classical, jazz, popular, and
rock music to more distant musical styles from
African, Afro-Cuban,
Brazilian, Caribbean,
and North Indian cultures, the group fuses
such styles into a coherent musical voice. Members of the quartet have performed in venues across the United States including Carnegie Hall in New York City, Chicago’s Orchestra
Hall, and Cincinnati’s historic Music Hall, as well as international venues in Korea and
Trinidad. The quartet performed a showcase concert at PASIC 2003 as well as a showcase
concert and master class at the 2006 Bands of America Summer Percussion Symposium.
Patrick Schleker was appointed to the position
of principal timpanist with the Cincinnati Symphony
and Cincinnati Pops orchestras in August 2006. In this
position, he enjoys a busy and varied performance
schedule, working with notable classical artists such
as Valery Gergiev and Gil Shaham, as well as popular
music stars including Peter Frampton, Bebe Neuwirth,
and Chris Botti. He also has an active recording schedule with these orchestras, releasing between four and
six albums per year with Telarc records. Prior to his
engagement in Cincinnati, Schleker earned a bachelor
of music degree from Northern Illinois University and a
master of music degree from Cleveland State University.
Aside from his position with the Symphony, he also performs with the chamber ensemble
Concert: Nova as well as the Base4 Percussion Quartet.
Dr. John, Mark Levine, The Machete Ensemble, Bobby
McFerrin, Andy Narell, Ray Obiedo, Chico O’Farrill, Eddie Palmieri, Lazaro Ros, David Rudder, Carlos Santana,
Grace Slick, Clark Terry, McCoy Tyner, and Charlie
Watts. He has been a faculty member or artist-inresidence at over forty universities and has conducted
clinics and master classes throughout North America
and Europe for over twenty years.
B. Michael Williams is professor of music and director of percussion studies at Winthrop University in Rock
Hill, South Carolina. He holds the bachelor of music
degree from Furman University, master of music degree
from Northwestern University, and doctoral degree from Michigan State University. Active
as a performer and clinician in both symphonic and world music, Williams has performed
with the Charlotte (NC) Symphony Orchestra, Lansing (MI) Symphony Orchestra, Brevard
Music Center Festival Orchestra, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Additionally, Williams
serves as an associate editor for Percussive Notes. A composer of innovative works for
percussion, his Four Solos for Frame Drums was the first published composition for the
medium. Additional works to his credit include Three Shona Songs for marimba ensemble,
Recital Suite for Djembe and Tiriba Kan for solo djembe, Bodhran Dance, Another New Riq,
and Learning Mbira, all published by HoneyRock Publications.
JOHN H. BECK
Friday, 2:00 p.m.
John H. Beck received his bachelor of music and master of music degrees from the Eastman School of Music,
where he has also served on the faculty since 1959.
Beck’s career as a performer and teacher includes
posts as percussionist, timpanist, and marimba soloist
with the United States Marine Band, principal percussionist with the Rochester Philharmonic, and timpanist
with the Rochester Philharmonic. He has made numerous solo appearances, including performances with the
Eastman Wind Ensemble, Syracuse Wind Ensemble,
BATAMBIRA
Saturday, 2:00 p.m.
BataMbira features the virtuosity of Michael Spiro and B. Michael Williams. The duo has
been featured on National Public Radio, The Voice of America, and other broadcasts
worldwide. Additionally, the duo has recently released a
compact disc recording entitled BataMbira.
Michael Spiro is an internationally recognized
percussionist, recording artist, producer, and educator
known primarily for his work in the Latin music field.
He is most known for his seminal recordings BataKetu, Ilu Ana, and his work with Talking Drums. He has
recorded and/or performed with such diverse artists as
David Byrne, The Caribbean Jazz Project, Don Caymmi,
Changuito, Frank Emilio Flynn, Ella Fitzgerald, Gilberto
Gil, Giovanni Hidalgo, Toninho Torta, Bobby Hutcherson,
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Chautauqua Band, Rochester Chamber Orchestra, Corning Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Memphis State Wind Ensemble, Pennsylvania Festival Band, and Filharmonia Pomorska, Poland. As a conductor, Beck has appeared with the Eastman Percussion Ensemble
and the Aeolian Consort. His compositions have been published by Carl Fischer, Boston
Music, Kendor Music, Meredith Music, MCA, Wimbledon Music, Inc., Studio 4 Productions,
and CPP/Belwin. He has served as PAS New York Chapter President (1976–82), PAS Second
Vice-President (1982–84), PAS First Vice-President (1984–86), and PAS President (1987–90).
He was inducted into the PAS Hall of Fame in 1999.
andrew bliss
Friday, 9:00 a.m.
Active as a performer, scholar, and pedagogue, Andrew
Bliss is currently the percussion instructor at Centre
College in Danville, Kentucky. A founding member of
the Base4 Quartet, he has performed concerts and
workshops throughout the Midwest. Most recently, he
has assembled the nief-norf project, a group that focuses
on fusing scholarly research with contemporary percussion performance. Bliss is a member of the PAS Music
Technology Committee, a founding member of the PAS
Collegiate Committee, and has been published in Percussive Notes. He is presently the front ensemble caption head for the Madison Scouts Drum
and Bugle Corps.
Kevin Bobo
Saturday, 12:00 p.m.
Kevin Bobo is currently serving as associate professor of
music in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. He has performed nationally and internationally as
a solo recitalist, clinician, and orchestral percussionist.
He holds degrees from Wichita State University and
Ithaca College. In addition to performing solo recitals,
concertos, and clinics at major universities and percussion festivals nationwide, Bobo has performed at two
Music Educators National Conferences. He has also
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performed at the 1998 and 2005 Leigh Howard Stevens Summer Marimba Seminars, the 2001
Bellingham Festival of Music, the 2005 Pzsaislis Music Festival in Lithuania, the 12th and 13th
International Festivals of Percussion in Puerto Rico, and the 2006 PerKumania Festival in
France. He has also performed solo presentations in Latvia, the Czech Republic, Singapore,
and at the 3rd International Seminar of Percussion in Mexico City. In addition to being an
active performer, Bobo is also an active composer having received several commissions.
His compositions are published through Studio 4 Music, PercMaster Publications, and Keyboard Percussion Publications. He has also released two solo marimba recordings Marimba
Jambalaya (1998) and Chronicles (2006). guy victor bordo
Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.
In May of 2005, Guy Victor Bordo accepted the position of director of orchestras at the University of Akron
School of Music. In this role, he conducts the University
of Akron Symphony Orchestra and the university opera
productions each year. Bordo is also in his eleventh
season as music director and conductor of the Richmond
Symphony Orchestra, in Richmond, Indiana. Active as a
guest conductor, Bordo made his European debut in 1994
with the Lithuanian National Opera Theatre in Vilnius,
conducting Verdi’s La Traviata. He was invited to return
in 1997, where he conducted the State Symphony Orchestra, the St. Christopher Chamber
Orchestra, and the Kaunas Opera Theatre in a production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. In 1991, he
received his doctoral degree in orchestral conducting from Northwestern University in
Evanston, Illinois. Bordo completed his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in music
education at the University of Michigan.
DEAN BORGHESANI
Saturday, 2:00 p.m.
Dean Borghesani was awarded the position of principal
timpanist of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in June
of 2000. Before joining the Milwaukee Symphony, he was
the timpanist of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra and
the Washington Chamber Symphony. Borghesani has
performed as guest timpanist with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Center Opera House
Orchestra. While living in the Washington D.C. area,
he performed in touring productions of Phantom of the
Opera, Les Miserables, Dream Girls, and Cats. He is currently on the faculty at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and also serves as a clinician
and lecturer on orchestral audition practices. Borghesani’s teachers have included Garwood Whaley, Jonathan Haas, Charles Wilkinson, Fred Begun, Cloyd Duff, and Ben
Herman.
RONALD BRUNER JR.
Thursday, 1:00 p.m.
Drumset artist Ronald Bruner Jr. began drumming at
the age of two. An early musical influence in his life
was his father who was also a drummer. Ronald Bruner
Sr. performed and recorded with such artists as Diana
Ross, the Temptations, and Gladys Knight. By the age of
eighteen, Ronald Bruner Jr. had performed with such
artists as Wayne Shorter, Dianne Reeves, Ron Carter,
and Kenny Garrett. His work with these artists eventually
led to performing as a member of the band Suicidal Tendencies. Currently, Bruner works with Stanley Clarke,
George Duke, and The Young Jazz Giants as well as Suicidal Tendencies and Kenny Garrett.
FRED BUGBEE
Saturday, 3:00 p.m.
Fred Bugbee is the director of percussion studies at
New Mexico State University. He has also held teaching
positions at the University of New Mexico, Limestone
College, the Brevard Music Center. He earned his
doctoral degree and master’s degree from the Eastman
School of Music. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from
the University of New Mexico. Bugbee’s professional
orchestral background includes performances with the
El Paso Opera, Las Cruces Symphony, Juarez Interna-
tional Symphony, Brevard Music Festival Orchestra, Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe Opera,
El Paso Pro Musica, El Paso Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, Charleston Symphony,
Greenville Symphony, Asheville Symphony, and the Las Cruces Chamber Players. Bugbee
has presented solo as well as ensemble performances at previous Percussive Arts Society
International Conventions, the national convention of the Society for American Musicians,
the International Trumpet Guild Convention, and the International Horn Society Convention.
In addition, he has premiered several works for solo marimba at conventions of the Society
of Composers. He has had articles published in Percussive Notes and in Medical Problems
of Performing Artists. Bugbee was a founding member of the Tempus Percussion Quartet,
an ensemble specializing in the music of John Cage. He is currently a member of the LINKS
Trans-media Ensemble, and gives frequent solo recitals. Bugbee is currently the president
of the New Mexico Chapter of PAS.
on a number of movie soundtracks including: An Officer
and a Gentleman, Indecent Proposal, and The Color
Purple. As a songwriter, he co-wrote hits including
“Dance Sister Dance” for Santana, ”Reach For It” for
George Duke, and “Let It Whip” for the Dazz Band. His
production credits include Flora Purim, Bill Summers,
and Toki. Along with his own solo recordings Ndugu
and the Chocolate Jam Co. and Ndugu Chancler, he has
co-produced recordings for such artists as Santana,
George Duke, The Crusaders, Joe Sample, Wilton Felder,
Tina Turner, and Ernie Watts. Chancler has served on the
PAS Board of Directors, and is an adjunct professor of
jazz studies at the University of Southern California.
MICHAEL BUMP
Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, 3:15 p.m.
Dr. Michael R. Bump is associate professor and director
of percussion studies at Truman State University. He
holds graduate degrees from the University of Illinois,
and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Memphis.
Bump has recently been appointed editor of the PAS
Solo and Ensemble Literature Guide. He has served as
PAS Chapter President in both South Carolina and Mississippi, is a member of the PAS New Music Research
Committee, and has participated as organizer or performer at previous PASICs. His performance background
includes principal timpanist with the Ars Nova Chamber Orchestra, Asheville Symphony
Orchestra, and the Cullowhee Music Festival in North Carolina. He has also served as
percussionist/assistant timpanist with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Memphis Opera
Orchestra, Chicago City Ballet, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra. Bump served as percussion coordinator and arranger for the Memphis Blues
Drum and Bugle Corps as well as an instructor/arranger for the Phantom Regiment Drum
and Bugle Corps and the University of Illinois Indoor Drumline. As a steel pan enthusiast,
he was a founding member of the I-Pan steel ensemble. His works for percussion are
published by Arrangers Publishing Co., Studio 4 Productions, Media Press, and Music for
Percussion, Inc.
Sri T H SUBASH CHANDRAN
From Chennai, South India, Sri T H Subash Chandran is a
multi-percussionist who has experience with South Indian Carnatic instruments including mridangam (barrelshaped drum), ghatam (clay pot), kanjira (South Indian
frame drum), morsingh (jaws harp), and konnakkol (vocal
percussion). He has performed at various venues such
as the United Nations and the Festivals of India in the
United States, Russia, Switzerland, and Japan. Additionally, he has performed with several orchestras including
the New York Philharmonic and Oslo Philharmonic with
violinist Dr. L Subramaniam. He has toured all over the world including Japan, Canada,
United States, South America, United Kingdom, Germany and other European countries.
He has also performed with such artists as Yehudhi Menuhin, Stephen Grapheli, Tony Williams, Max Roach, and Indian artists Smt M S Subbulakshmi, Dr. Bala Murali Krishna, and U
Srinivas. Chandran was a faculty member of the California Institute of the Arts from 1976 to
1977. He is professor emeritus at the Sankara Institute of Percussive Arts and Music in New
Jersey, where he has conducted advanced workshops on performance techniques of South
Indian percussion instruments for the last nine years.
Anne-Julie Caron
Friday, 4:00 p.m.
Anne-Julie Caron began her musical studies in Quebec
at the age of four on the piano and continued for seven
years until entering into the percussion class of Carol
Lemieux at the Conservatoire de musique de Quebec. In
2003, she graduated with grand distinction at the top of
her class. The following year she attended the Boston
Conservatory, where she studied marimba performance
with Nancy Zeltsman. She took private master classes
with Bogdan Dacanu, and also studied with Keiko Abe.
Caron also performs as a percussionist with the Quebec
Symphony Orchestra.
JIM CASELLA
Thursday, 12:00 p.m. Jim Casella is the percussion arranger for the seventime world champion Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps
from Rosemont, Illinois. He received his education
from San Jose State University and the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music where he studied with Anthony
J. Cirone and Jack Van Geem. He is also known for his
work with the Santa Clara Vanguard where he served
as arranger from 1996 through 2004. Casella resides in
Portland, Oregon and works as a composer/arranger
for television and broadcast projects. He has presented
clinics across North America, as well as in Europe and Asia.
Ndugu Chancler
Saturday, 3:00 p.m.
Ndugu Chancler is a drummer, percussionist, producer, composer, clinician, and educator.
As a studio musician, Chancler has recorded with such greats as Frank Sinatra, Herbie
Hancock, Weather Report, John Lee Hooker, Kenny Rogers, and Michael Jackson. He was
the drumset artist on Michael Jackson’s hit song “Billie Jean.” Chancler has also played
Anthony J. Cirone
Friday, 2:00 p.m.
Anthony J. Cirone received his bachelor of science and
master of science degrees from the Juilliard School
of Music, where he studied with Saul Goodman. Upon
graduation, he was offered the position of percussionist
with the San Francisco Symphony. During his ensuing
tenure with the Symphony, he performed under the baton
of Seiji Ozawa, Edo DeWaart, Herbert Blomstedt, and Michael Tilson Thomas as music directors with noted guest
conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky,
Aaron Copland, Eugene Ormandy, Kurt Mazur, Rafael
Kubelik, Leonard Slakin, and James Levine. In addition, Cirone also served as professor of
music at San Jose State University from 1965 to 2001, where he chaired the percussion department and taught the manuscript preparation/computer engraving section of music technology. Cirone also served on the faculty of San Francisco State University and Stanford
University. He served as professor of music and chair of the percussion department at the
Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University from 2001 to 2007. A prolific composer, he has
published over ninety titles including books such as Portraits in Rhythm, three symphonies
for percussion, four sonatas, a string quartet, three pieces for wind ensemble, and seven
works for orchestra. In 1999, he received a Special Distinction Award from ASCAP for his
Pentadic Striations for Orchestra. David L. Collier
Dr. David L. Collier is currently assistant professor of
music at Illinois State University, where he is director of
percussion studies. He teaches all percussion majors, directs the ISU Percussion Ensemble, and teaches courses
in percussion pedagogy and literature and percussion
techniques. Collier is also webmaster for the school of
music and collaborates with ORAT—the Office of Research in Arts Technology. In this capacity, he is active
with computers, electronic music, MIDI, and multi-media.
He received his bachelor of music degree from Florida
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Armand Zildjian (1921-2002)
Armand Zildjian’s introduction into the world of music
came at a very early age. Born into the Zildjian
family with a 350-year-old tradition of cymbal
craftsmanship, it was always understood that
Armand would follow his father Avedis into
the family business. For Armand, it was
an honor to match cymbals for the great
symphonies and to collaborate with the
greatest drummers of the day to develop
the new cymbal sounds musicians were
looking for.
In receiving his honorar y Doctorate
from Berklee College of Music in 1988,
Armand told the Berklee students how
very fortunate they were to have the opportunity to study contemporary music.
“In my day”, said Armand, “the classroom
was primarily the nightclubs where all the
great musicians learned from each other.”
As a charter member of the Percussive Arts
Society and a 16 year Trustee of Berklee College,
Armand sought to create more learning opportunities
for today’s musicians both in contemporary and classical
music. The PAS Armand Zildjian Percussion Scholarship is one
step in fulfilling that quest.
PAS Armand Zildjian Percussion Scholarship
One $2,000 scholarship will be awarded.
Eligibility: The scholarship is open to any full time student enrolled in an accredited college or
university school of music during the 2008–2009 academic year. Applicant must be a current
member of the Percussive Arts Society.
Application Materials: All applicants must submit a completed application, a letter of
recommendation verifying age and school attendance, and a DVD. The DVD should demonstrate
the applicant’s ability on at least two different percussion instruments and not exceed ten
minutes in length.
Download an application: www.pas.org/news/contests/index.cfm
Deadline: All materials must be received in the PAS offices no later than March 15, 2008.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY 317.974.4488
State University and his master of music degree from Indiana University. He completed
his doctor of musical arts degree in percussion performance and electronic music at the
University of Illinois. As a performer, Collier is principal timpanist with the Illinois Symphony
Orchestra and the Illinois Chamber Orchestra and former timpanist with the Sinfonia da
Camera Chamber Orchestra. He also performed with the University of Illinois Contemporary
Chamber Players at the 15th Asian Contemporary Music Festival in Korea. Other performances include a tour of Germany, concerts in Carnegie Hall, and performances throughout
the Midwest and Southeast.
Grant Collins
Thursday, 5:00 p.m.
As a drumset artist, Grant Collins continues to push
boundaries and limits for creative and unconventional
drumming. His approach defies stereotypical drumset
methodologies with his innovative, solo compositions.
Collins has received recognition for his recordings Live
@ The Tivoli-The Official Bootleg and Primal Instinct and
Dogboy. His drumset consists of almost eighty pieces
with twenty-six drums, thirty-four cymbals, and eighteen
foot pedals. Currently, Collins is in the process of completing his doctor of philosophy degree in composition
and performance. His active involvement with the Queensland Arts Council and Education
Queensland has provided quality educational workshops in schools throughout Queensland
and Australia.
DAHUI, ENSEMBLE DU RHYTHM
Thursday, 11:00 a.m.
Dahui, Ensemble du Rhythm, provides an interactive experience engaging the audience in a
rhythmic dialog. This Chicago-based percussion ensemble performs original arrangements
of traditional West African rhythms and songs,
as well as fully original
works. The instrumentation in the ensemble
is djembe, dounoun,
bells, kirin, gongoma,
triangle, didgeridoo, and
vocals. The members
of Dahui are Bill Miller,
Rick Neuhaus, Ray West,
and John Yost. Dahui
has performed on stages around the United States and Puerto Rico. Members of Dahui have
studied various forms of world music extensively in West Africa, America, Asia, and the
Caribbean. Ensemble members have studied with the following master drummers: M’Bemba
Bangoura, Madou Dembele, Yaya Kabo, Gbongworo Keita, Mamady Keita, Famoudou
Konate, Ibro Konate, Michael Markus, Paulo Mattioli, and Babatunde Olatunji.
BRANN DAILOR
Saturday, 1:00 p.m.
Brann Dailor is the drummer for Mastodon, an American
heavy metal band based in Atlanta, Georgia. Dailor says
his style is very jazzy and prog-rock influenced. He has
stated in interviews that his favorite CDs are Stevie
Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life and Genesis’ The Lamb
Lies Down on Broadway. Before forming Mastodon, he
and fellow Mastodon member Bill Kelliher were members of the Rochester-based band Lethargy. Brann Dailor
performed at the 2006 Modern Drummer Festival.
CHRISTOPHER DEANE
Christopher Deane is an associate professor of percussion at the University of North Texas. He holds a bachelor
of music degree in percussion performance from the
North Carolina School of the Arts and a master of music
degree in percussion from the University of Cincinnati
College–Conservatory of Music. He was a founding
member of the Philidor Percussion Group. Deane was
principal timpanist with the Greensboro Symphony
for nine years and performed with the North Carolina
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Symphony for ten years. He has performed with numerous orchestras including the Boston
Pops, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Minnesota, and Utah Symphonies. Deane is a frequent performer with the Dallas Wind Symphony as well as other Texas ensembles. His recording of
the Schwantner Percussion Concerto with the North Texas Wind Symphony was released
on the Klavier Label in 2006. Deane has won both first and second prize in the PAS Composition Contest, and a number of his compositions are considered standard recital literature
internationally.
Geraldo de Oliveira
Saturday, 1:00 p.m.
Geraldo de Oliveira is a self taught musician who
started playing percussion professionally at the age of
fourteen in his hometown Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Before
moving to the United States in 1975, he had already
established himself as a percussionist and bandleader
who performed a diverse range of styles. In the United
States, he continued to develop his skills as a musician
and an educator, performing, recording, and studying at
the American Conservatory of Music under James Dutton. Oliveira has recorded with such artists as: Ramsey
Lewis, Judy Roberts, Linda Clifford, Guy Fricano, Gene Chandler, The Chi Lites, Lesley
Spencer, Scott Anderson, Chevera, and Grazyna Auguscik. He was a guest artist on the last
album that Buddy Rich recorded in Chicago. He has performed with such diverse artists as:
Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Toninho Horta, Barbara Eden. Vic Damone, Aretha Franklin, Yma
Sumac, and the Lakeside Singers. Oliveira is a guest faculty member for the Birch Creek
Music Center, percussion instructor for the Music Institute of Chicago, Ravinia’s jazz mentor, percussion instructor for Ravinia’s Illumination Program, and performer/instructor for
the University of Chicago Presents program. As a jazz mentor for Ravinia, he performs with
the mentors’ ensemble under the direction of Willie Pickens and conducts weekly Brazilian
percussion master classes in many Chicago public high schools. Oliveira is also a freelance
sound engineer/producer and owner of Cathedral Recording.
Chris Deviney
Friday, 3:00 p.m.
Chris Deviney serves as principal percussionist of the
Philadelphia Orchestra. Prior to assuming this position in
2003, Deviney was section percussionist in the Houston
Symphony. He has also previously performed and recorded with the New Orleans Symphony, Toronto Symphony,
New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra.
He has performed professionally at the Bard Music
Festival and as a featured soloist with the Brevard (FL)
Symphony. Deviney was a student at the Aspen Music
Festival, where he was the recipient of the first Charles
Owen Memorial Fellowship. Deviney received his bachelor of music degree from Florida
State University and his master of music degree from Temple University. Deviney has been
featured in a number of chamber settings and recitals at such venues as Tulane University,
Temple University, Network for New Music, Atmos Percussion Ensemble, and the Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Series. He is currently an adjunct professor at Rutgers University
and has provided professional coaching for the New World Symphony. In 2005, he received
the Florida State University Dohnanyi Award for Excellence in Music Performance.
Dave DiCenso
Friday, 10:00 a.m.
As a drumset artist, Dave DiCenso has worked with a diverse list of artists including Duran Duran, Steve Morse,
Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci, Cro-Mags, Gary
Cherone, Johnny A., and Hiromi. He has made television
appearances in the United States, Europe, and Japan,
and is featured on the 2006 Modern Drummer Festival
Weekend DVD. Equally regarded in the field of education, DiCenso has performed many clinics and master
classes worldwide. He has appeared at the Percussive
Arts Society International Convention, the Modern Drummer Festival, the Montreal Drum Festival, Columbus Drum Daze, N.A.M.M., and Frankfurt
Musikmesse. DiCenso is also an associate professor of percussion at Berklee College of
Music in Boston.
Anthony Di Sanza
Friday, 11:00 a.m.
Anthony Di Sanza has performed, presented master
classes, and held residencies in North America, Europe,
and Asia. Active in a wide variety of Western and nonWestern percussive areas, he can be heard on numerous
recording labels in various musical settings, including
Sole Nero Piano and Percussion Duo, Linda Maxey with
Galaxy Percussion, Keiko Abe and the Michigan Chamber Players, and the Reptile Palace Orchestra. Currently
serving as principal percussionist with the Madison
Symphony Orchestra, Di Sanza’s 2007–2008 performance
season includes appearances throughout the United States and China. Di Sanza has works
published by HoneyRock and Alfred, and his new handbook Improvisational Practice Techniques is published by RGM. He is associate professor of percussion at the University of
Wisconsin–Madison, overseeing all aspects of the percussion program.
MATTHEW DONELLO
Matthew Donello is currently in his first year of graduate
study at New York University (NYU) with Jonathan Haas.
Prior to his time at NYU, he received a bachelor’s degree
in music theory from Ithaca College where he also studied percussion with Gordon Stout and Conrad Alexander.
He attended the Aspen Music Festival and School in the
summer of 2006. Most recently Donello was the director
of the NYU Broadway Percussion Seminar/Summit and
stage manager for the Harmonie Ensemble NY. Donello
has also played with the American Symphony Orchestra
as a section percussionist at Lincoln Center and Bard College. Lastly, he has a passion for
the pandeiro and has performed with various groups and combos since his undergraduate
years.
DUO ANIME
The ensemble duo ANIME features percussionists Andrew Pongracz and Mell Csicsila.
The duo regularly performs for the Musical Rainbow programs of the Cleveland Orchestra
Educational Activities
Office both at Severance
Hall and “on the road.”
They have presented
performances for several
organizations including
the Cleveland Composers Guild and the Ohio
Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society.
Andrew Pongracz is
principal percussionist
of Cleveland Chamber
Symphony, a professional orchestra committed to the performance of new music. He also is
a regular performer with many of the region’s symphony orchestras, including the Cleveland
Opera, Youngstown Symphony, Erie Philharmonic, and Ft. Wayne Philharmonic. In addition
to duo ANIME, Pongracz collaborates with Cleveland Orchestra violist Art Klima, exploring
the new repertoire for viola and percussion. Pongracz is on the faculties of Hiram College
and Lorain County Community College. He holds degrees from Hiram College and Cleveland
State University.
Mell Csicsila is principal percussionist of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra and also
performs regularly at Cleveland’s Playhouse Square Theatre complex. Csicsila is a guest
artist for the Cleveland Orchestra’s “Learning Through Music” arts integration project and
is on the faculty of Cuyahoga Community College. He served on the faculty of Kent State
University’s Stark campus from 1995 to 2004, and was an assistant conductor of the “AllOhio” State Fair Band from 1994 through 2001. He holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s
degree from Cleveland State University and has pursued additional graduate study at the
Cleveland Institute of Music.
Ear Massage Percussion Quartet
Thursday, 12:00 p.m.
Four percussionists from Latin America residing in Holland created Ear Massage (EM) in
December 2004. Specializing in contemporary percussion music repertoire, EM performs
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music encompassing
a wide range of styles
and genres. Members
of EM are José Garcia,
Juan Martinez, Lester
Rodríguez, and Diego
Espinosa. The group is
committed to working in
close collaboration with
composers through the
commissioning of new
pieces as well as creating their own works. The members of EM perform with chamber music ensembles such as
Percussion Group The Hague, Atlas Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble, Ziggurat, Axyz Ensemble,
Insomnio, Maarten Altena, Soil, The Barton Workshop, Modelo 62, and Electronic Hammer.
They have also been invited to work with the Asko and Schoenberg Ensembles, Anumadutchi, Ives Ensemble, Amsterdam Percussion Group, Camerata de las Américas, and Tambuco
among others. EM has performed throughout The Netherlands and at festivals such as the
Taipei International Percussion Convention 2005, Junio Musical Mexico 2006, Chinch Festival Belgrade 2006, Majestic Drum Festival Hong Kong 2006, and Mexicaanse Componisten
Muziekgebouw Amsterdam 2007. In 2005, EM was awarded third prize at the International
Percussion Quartet Competition in Luxembourg.
José García received his bachelor’s degree from the Koninklijk Conservatorium (Royal
Conservatory) in The Hague, Netherlands. In addition to the EM Quartet, he is currently a
member of Axyz Ensemble, Modelo 62, The Barton Workshop, and Tentet Ensemble.
Juan Martinez completed his bachelor’s degree at Xalapa Faculty of Music. He received
his master’s degree from the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, Netherlands. In 1999,
he won first prize at the National Solo Marimba Competition in Chiapas, Mexico. In 2001, he
was awarded first prize at the International Marimba Duo Competition in Belgium with XOC
Duo.
Lester Rodríguez started his musical studies at Manuel Saumell School of Music and the
Amadeo Roldán Conservatory in Habana, Cuba. He moved to Mexico in 1994 and received a
bachelor’s degree from the National School of Music at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (UNAM). He completed a master’s degree at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The
Hague, Netherlands. In addition to the EM Quartet, he is currently member of the Modelo 62
Ensemble.
Diego Espinosa holds a master’s degree from the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The
Hague, Netherlands. In addition to the EM Quartet, Espinosa is a member of the Atlas
Ensemble, Ziggurat, The Electronic Hammer, Slagwerk Groep Den Haag, Soil Ensemble, and
Insomnio. He was also a member of the Amsterdam Percussion Group from 2002 to 2005
with whom he recorded the CD Release.
PETER ERSKINE
Saturday, 5:00 p.m.
Peter Erskine has played the drums since the age of
four and is known for his versatility and love of playing
different kinds of music. He has appeared on over 500
albums and film scores, and has received two Grammy
Awards as well as an honorary doctoral degree. He has
played with such artists as the Stan Kenton and Maynard
Ferguson big bands, Weather Report, Steps Ahead, Joni
Mitchell, Steely Dan, Diana Krall, Kenny Wheeler, The
Brecker Brothers, The Yellowjackets, Pat Metheny and
Gary Burton, John Scofield, and Bill Frisell. Erskine has
appeared as a soloist with the London, Los Angeles, Frankfurt Radio, Scottish Chamber, BBC
Symphony, and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras. He premiered the double percussion concerto Fractured Lines, composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage, at the BBC Proms with Andrew
Davis conducting. He leads two groups: The Lounge Art Ensemble and a piano trio with
Alan Pasqua. Recordings by these groups can be found on the Fuzzy Music label. Erskine
is the author of several books, the latest being Time Awareness for All Musicians, and is an
award-winning composer for the theatre. He teaches jazz drumming at the Royal Academy
of Music in London, and has just been named the director of drumset studies at the University of Southern California. Erskine serves on the PAS Board of Directors.
ROB FERGUSON
Thursday, 2:00 p.m.
Rob Ferguson has been the director of Matrix Indoor Drumline since its conception in 1999
and currently serves as the executive director, as well as the battery coordinator/arranger.
Additionally, Ferguson is the front ensemble coordinator for the Glassmen Drum and Bugle
Corps. He also serves on the faculty of Youngstown State University as a keyboard percus-
sion specialist and assistant marching band director.
In addition to his teaching, he is an active composer,
arranger, and designer in both the indoor and outdoor
marching activities for high school, college, and independent programs. Ferguson is active as a program consultant for numerous high school programs throughout Ohio
and Indiana. He has been a guest soloist and clinician
at many universities and high schools in Ohio, Indiana,
Texas, and Pennsylvania. Ferguson holds both his
bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Kent State
University. He is currently serving his sixth term as a
percussion representative to the Mid-East Performance
Association Board of Directors.
The Florida State University Percussion Ensemble
Friday, 10:00 a.m.
The Florida State University Percussion Ensemble is making its first PASIC appearance as
one of the 2007 “Call for Tapes” International Percussion Ensemble Competition winners.
The ensemble is directed
by Dr. John W. Parks,
IV Assistant Professor
of Percussion at Florida
State University (FSU)
since 2003. The ensemble has been privileged
to work with such artists
as Nexus, James Campbell, Thomas Burritt,
Keith Aleo, Ricardo
Flores, Jeff Moore, Eric
Hollenbeck, Blake Tyson,
David Skidmore, and Scott Herring over the last four years, and consistently programs a
wide variety of literature. The ensemble recently accompanied Parks on his East Coast
Carnegie Hall tour during 2007, and has been featured in television shows and showcase
concerts at FSU.
Fort Lewis College Percussion Ensembles
Friday, 3:00 p.m. Under the direction of John Pennington, the percussion ensembles at Fort Lewis College have enjoyed celebrated performances and accolades. The keyboard percussion
ensemble is dedicated
to performing literature
that preserves the
legacies of the past and
looks forward to new
compositional horizons.
At the center of this
ensemble’s repertoire
is the ragtime music of
the 1920s and 1930s,
which features early jazz
xylophone virtuosity. This
ensemble has performed
in numerous venues throughout North America and recently performed for the entire House
of Representatives of the State of Colorado. The Fort Lewis percussion ensemble program
released its first CD recording in 2006 titled The Invisible Proverb and subsequently, its
second, The American Gamelan, Revisited, in 2007. Through the acquisition of the American
Gamelan from instrument designer Richard Cooke, the percussion ensemble has performed
both La Koro Sutro and Suite for Violin and American Gamelan, which are two of the three
pieces Harrison composed for this instrumental ensemble.
Performer, educator, composer, author, producer and conductor John C. Pennington is
currently a professor of music at Fort Lewis College, in Durango, Colorado. He also serves
as artistic director of the Animas Music Festival. He received degrees from the University of
Arizona, the University of Michigan, and Arizona State University. Pennington is an orchestral percussionist who currently performs with the Music in the Mountains Music Festival,
Animas Music Festival, and the San Juan Symphony.
Mikylah Myers McTeer joined the faculty of West Virginia University (WVU) this fall as
assistant professor of violin. She received her doctoral degree and master’s degree from
the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, where she studied with renowned
violinist Fredell Lack. During her time in Houston, McTeer regularly performed with the
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Houston Symphony and the Houston Grand Opera. She was also a violinist with the New
World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida. McTeer was previously concertmaster of the San
Juan Symphony and assistant professor of violin and viola at Fort Lewis College. She was
also the founder, artistic director, and conductor of the Durango Youth Symphony. An
award-winning chamber musician, McTeer performs with WVU’s faculty piano quartet. She
was formerly the violinist of the Red Shoe Piano Trio at Fort Lewis College and the violinist
of the Moores Piano Trio in Houston, Texas, which was the silver prize winner at the 2000
Carmel Chamber Music Competition. DAVID FREGO
Friday, 1:00 p.m.
Dr. David Frego is an associate professor at Ohio State
University and past-president of the Dalcroze Society of
America. He is an instructor in Dalcroze Eurhythmics and
regularly presents workshops throughout North America,
Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. While performing
artists of all ages benefit from rhythmic training,
eurhythmics in teacher training is an important focus of
Frego’s research. Other teaching and research areas
include dance philosophy and the application of Dalcroze
Eurhythmics as palliative care for terminally ill adults.
Frego has published articles in both music education journals and medical journals for arts
medicine.
Timothy Genis Thursday, 3:00 p.m. Timpanist/percussionist Timothy Genis is a native of
California, where music was instilled in him at a very
early age. He started playing the piano at age four and
continued into his teens. During his adolescence, his
musical endeavors included classical and jazz piano, all
aspects of drumset and classical percussion and even
playing horn. Genis joined the Boston Symphony
Orchestra in May 1993 as assistant timpanist of the BSO
and principal timpanist of the Boston Pops Orchestra. In
March of 2003, music director designate James Levine
appointed Genis principal timpanist of the BSO. Genis attended the Juilliard School of
Music, where he was the recipient of the Saul Goodman Award for outstanding timpanist,
and the Eastman School of Music. From July 1991 until his BSO appointment, he was
associate timpanist and assistant principal percussionist of the Honolulu Symphony Society.
Prior to his Honolulu appointment, he was principal timpanist with the Philharmonia Virtuosi
in New York, principal timpanist with the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, and assistant
principal timpanist/percussionist for two years with the Hong Kong Philharmonic. A
Tanglewood Music Center Fellow in 1990, Genis also attended the Boston University
Tanglewood Institute. Currently, head of the percussion department at Boston University, he
also runs the Boston University Tanglewood Institute percussion program.
JOSH GOTTRY
Saturday, 11:00 a.m.
Josh Gottry earned a bachelor’s degree at Northern
Arizona University, and is currently pursuing his master’s
degree in composition at Arizona State University. He is
the adjunct percussion instructor for Chandler-Gilbert
Community College. Along with solo and chamber
performances, Gottry serves as principal percussionist
with the Mesa Symphony Orchestra and extra
percussionist with the Broadway Palm Dinner Theater.
Gottry’s first composition, Irrelevant for marimba, earned
him an ASCAP Young Composer Competition grant in
1995. Since then, he has been selected for six ASCAP Plus awards and has created over
twenty published works in the catalogs of C. Alan Publications, drop6 media, Inc.,
HoneyRock Publishing, Row-Loff Productions, Studio 4 Music, and Gottry Percussion
Publications.
NEIL GROVER
As founder and president of Grover Pro Percussion, Neil Grover holds the added
distinctions of performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Aerosmith, and on the
soundtrack of Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom. In addition to twenty-eight years as a
percussionist with the Boston Pops, Grover is a prolific clinician having been featured five
times at PASICs (1990,1993,1995, 2000, 2002), as well as at
the Texas Music Educators Association Convention, New
Jersey State Percussion Ensemble Festival, First
International Percussion Festival of Puerto Rico, and
various PAS Days of Percussion. He has also presented
clinics and master classes at many universities in the
United States and worldwide including: University of
North Texas, Northwestern University, University of
Florida, University of Miami, University of Michigan,
University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, California
State University, Florida State University, Furman
University, Conservatoire Superieur de Paris, Royal
College of Music (London), Sydney Conservatory (Australia), Royal Scottish Academy, Seoul
Conservatory (Korea), Japan Percussion Center (Tokyo), and University of Toronto (Canada).
Grover is the author of Four Mallet Primer and co-author of Triangle, Tambourine and
Cymbal Technique with Garwood Whaley. For many years, he was the chair of percussion
programs at both Boston Conservatory and the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. For the
past twelve years, he has served on the PAS Board of Directors. JONATHAN HAAS
Wednesday, 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.
Jonathan Haas is a well-known timpani virtuoso. From
classical concertos to jazz and rock n’ roll, from
symphonic masterpieces to the most experimental
compositions, Haas has championed and commissioned
music for timpani. Haas has garnered attention for his
performances of Philip Glass’ Concerto Fantasy for Two
Timpanists and Orchestra, a piece written for him. Haas’
successful efforts to expand the timpani repertoire have
led him to commission and premiere more than twentyfive other works. He performs internationally as a
percussion and timpani soloist and teaches at New York University, the Juilliard School of
Music, and the Aspen Music School.
Omar Hakim
Friday, 5:00 p.m.
A graduate of the New York School of Music and Art,
Omar Hakim began his career as a drumset artist
recording with various pop and soul groups. In 1982, he
joined Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul in recording the
critically acclaimed albums Procession, Domino Theory,
This Is This, and Sporting Life with Weather Report.
Hakim also managed to perform with Sting for his first
solo release Dream Of The Blue Turtles. He subsequently
toured and recorded with artists such as David Sanborn,
Dire Straits, Marcus Miller, Mariah Carey, Miles Davis,
and David Bowie. In addition to being a session/touring drummer and clinician, Hakim has
released two solo recordings. His latest solo recording entitled The Groovesmith, which is
an eclectic mix of jazz, rhythm and blues, and funk, showcases his skills as a composer.
TERRI L. HALEY
Thursday, 1:00 p.m. Terri L. Haley has been teaching and playing percussion
for over twenty years. Haley is board certified and
registered in nuclear medicine with a bachelor of
science degree in radiological sciences. She also holds
a master of music degree in percussion performance.
Haley has written numerous percussion compositions
and arrangements and has taught drum corps such as
the Velvet Knights, Blue Knights, and Troopers. She is the
author of Percussion Keyboard Exercises for Two and
Four Mallets. Residing in Las Vegas, Nevada, Haley
practices nuclear medicine, teaches percussion, and is an avid real estate investor.
Currently, she serves on the PAS Health and Wellness Committee.
Chris Hanning
Friday, 9:00 a.m.
Chris Hanning has been performing with steelbands and studying the drumming styles of
Trinidad for over twenty years and plays regularly with the Panyard Steel Orchestra. He
recently released a drumset instructional DVD with Panyard, Inc. entitled Island Grooves.
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Hanning is professor of percussion studies at West
Chester University, a recording artist for NFL Films, and
performs with the West Chester Jazz Orchestra and the
Peter Paulsen Quartet. He is also principal timpanist with
the Bach Festival Orchestra of Bethlehem and
percussionist with Philadelphia’s premier contemporary
music ensemble Relâche. Hanning has performed on
numerous recordings for NFL Films over the past ten
years including several Emmy Award winning projects.
He also recorded a CD with legendary saxophonist David
Leibman and the Manhattan Saxophone Quartet entitled
The Seasons Reflected. THOM HANNUM
Thom Hannum has presented numerous seminars and
workshops throughout the United States, Canada,
Europe, and Southeast Asia. He is best known for his
work with the Drum Corps International World Champion
Cadets of Bergen County and Star of Indiana. Hannum is
a member of the design team for the award winning
shows Blast! and Blast II. In the summer of 2001, he was
selected for induction into the DCI Hall of Fame. Hannum
teaches at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst,
where he serves as the associate director and
percussion instructor of the Minuteman Marching Band as well as the director of the
marimba ensemble program. He has published a textbook with corresponding student
workbook entitled Championship Concepts For Marching Percussion and an instructional
video entitled Fundamental Techniques For Marching Percussion, which provide many band
programs with a comprehensive foundation for percussion education. He currently serves
as the PAS Chapter President in Massachusetts.
STEFON HARRIS
Friday, 1:00 p.m.
A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, jazz vibist
Stefon Harris earned a bachelor of music degree in
classical music and a master of music degree in jazz
performance. He is a recipient of the prestigious Martin
E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center, and has earned
three consecutive Grammy nominations for the work on
his compact disc recordings The Grand Unification
Theory (2003), Kindred (2001), and Black Action Figure
(1999). Harris has performed at many of the world’s most
distinguished concert halls including: Carnegie Hall,
Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, The Kennedy Center, San Francisco’s Herbst Theater,
UCLA’s Royce Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center, Detroit’s Orchestra Hall, and The Sydney
Opera House. In June 2007, his quartet performed a retrospective of his original
compositions with the Jazz Sinfomica Orquestra in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In addition to leading
his own ensemble, Harris has recorded as part of The Classical Jazz Quartet a series of jazz
interpreted classics with Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, and Lewis Nash. He has also recorded
and toured with such artists as Joe Henderson, Wynton Marsalis, David Sanborn,
Cassandra Wilson, Buster Williams, Charlie Hunter, Cyrus Chestnut, and Steve Coleman. He
has appeared at various festivals including: North Sea Jazz Festival, Istanbul Jazz Festival,
Umbria Jazz Festival, Playboy Jazz Festival, and Montreal Jazz Festival. An active educator,
Harris conducts clinics and lectures throughout the country. He currently teaches at New
York University, and is an artist in residence at Fontana Chamber Arts in Kalamazoo,
Michigan. Harris is also a resource leader for the International Association of Jazz
Educators and an active member of the Executive Board of Directors for Chamber Music
America. FERNANDO HASHIMOTO
Wednesday, 12:30 p.m. Fernando earned his bachelor’s degree and master’s
degree in music from Campinas State University/
UNICAMP under the direction of Professor Ricardo
Righini and Professor Andre Juarez. Currently a Fulbright
Scholarship recipient, he is pursuing a doctoral degree
at City University of New York, under the direction of
Morris Lang. In 1998, with a Brazilian Government Grant,
he completed an extensive research project about
Brazilian repertoire for percussion. After six years of service as PAS Chapter President of
Brazil, he is currently serving as a member of the PAS International Committee. Hashimoto
was awarded the 2002 PAS Outstanding Chapter President Award in recognition for his
service and dedication to PAS and the Brazilian musical community. He has premiered more
than forty works written by Brazilian composers. Many of the works were commissioned for
or dedicated to him, including the premiere of Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra by
Marlos Nobre. Hashimoto also premiered Concerto for Vibraphone and Orchestra by Raul
do Valle at the Gershwin Theater in New York in 2005. As a composer, his works have been
performed by several percussion ensembles in Brazil, America, and Europe. His works and
compact disc recordings include Brazilian Concertos for Percussion and Configurations for
Contemporary Percussion. STEVE HEMPHILL
Saturday, 9:00 a.m.
Steve Hemphill, Professor of Music and Director of
Percussion Studies at Northern Arizona University since
1991, earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree
from the Eastman School of Music and a doctoral degree
from Florida State University. He has performed with the
Atlanta Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, the
Savannah and Tallahassee Symphonies, the Phoenix
Symphony, the Arizona Opera Orchestra, the Orquesta
Sinfonica Municipal of Caracas, Venezuela, and the
Flagstaff Festival of the Arts Orchestra. He currently
serves as principal timpanist wth the Flagstaff Symphony and as principal percussionist
with the Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango, Colorado. Hemphill has published
articles in Percussive Notes, The Instrumentalist, The International Association of Jazz
Educators Journal, Arizona Music News, and a number of statewide educational
newsletters. He is associate producer/director of The Art of Timpani instructional video
series, and is a past president of PAS Chapters in Arizona and Wyoming. DAVID HERBERT
David Herbert is currently principal timpanist of the San
Francisco Symphony. He also is a proponent of solo
timpani repertoire, accomplishing many commissions
and world premiere performances every year. Herbert
served as timpanist of the New World Symphony, and
has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony and St.
Louis Symphony. He has appeared as timpani concerto
soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, Shanghai
Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, and the New
World Symphony, with which he made his Lincoln Center
debut with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting. Herbert performed the world premiere of
William Kraft’s Grand Encounter Timpani Concerto #2 in 2005 with the San Francisco
Symphony (SFS), a commission written specifically for him. With the SFS, he has performed
as soloist in Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Organ and Percussion, William Kraft’s Timpani
Concerto No. 1, and Michael Tilson Thomas’s Island Music. Herbert has presented clinics
and master classes throughout North America, Japan, China, and Europe. He has been a
featured clinician at several PASICs (2001, 2003, 2005), and is currently a faculty member of
the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Boston Conservatory. He holds a
bachelor’s degree from the St. Louis Conservatory of Music and a master’s degree in
percussion performance from the Juilliard School of Music. Giovanni Hidalgo
Friday, 12:00 p.m.
Puerto Rican native and conguero Giovanni Hidalgo
combines the flavors of Latin music and jazz to create a
unique style of playing. Hidalgo has performed with the
likes of Dave Valentin, Eddie Palmieri, Paquito d’Rivera,
and Carlos Santana. He has also traveled all over the
world with Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, and Planet Drum,
a percussion ensemble led by former Grateful Dead
drummer Mickey Hart. DAVE HOLLAND
Sunday, 12:00 p.m.
Dave Holland is a well-rounded performer, educator, and drum circle facilitator. As founder
of Beatin’ PathTM, Holland spreads the message of community, teamwork, diversity, and
environmental awareness through rhythm-based events. He leads regular drum circles at
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schools, public housing communities, health fairs, and
festivals. Holland has traveled to Cuba, Africa, and Brazil
to pursue his continuing education of the world’s cultures
and drumming traditions. He has been a presenter at a
previous PASIC as well as the PAS Day of Percussion in
Georgia. He’s a graduate of the Village Music Circle
Facilitation Training and Drum Circle Music Training. He
is currently working on his soon to be released book
DRUMAGINATION™, A Rhythmic Guide Book for Music
Teachers, Music Therapists and Drum Circle Facilitators.
Eric R. Hollenbeck
Eric R. Hollenbeck, Assistant Professor of Percussion at
Colorado State University since the fall of 2003, earned a
doctoral degree from Northwestern University in
Evanston, Illinois. He holds a master’s degree from the
University of Illinois in percussion performance and a
bachelor’s degree in percussion performance from Kent
State University. Hollenbeck has performed with diverse
performing organizations ranging from principal positions
held in Fort Collins and Cheyenne Symphony Orchestras
to appearances with the Alabama, Sinfonia De Camera,
Chicago Civic, Tallahassee, Colorado, and Columbus Symphony Orchestras. He has also
served as timpanist for the International Cathedral Music Festival in London, England. As a
chamber musician, he has appeared with the Chicago Chamber Players, Eighth Blackbird,
Xavier Cougat Orchestra and the Jack Daniels Silver Cornet Band. As a solo performer,
Hollenbeck has performed in England, Ecuador, Mexico, Canada, and at over thirty
universities in the United States. He has presented clinics and master classes at several
PAS Days of Percussion and Colorado Music Educators Association Conventions. DOUGLAS HOWARD
Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. Douglas Howard, principal percussionist and assistant
timpanist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, received
the Sabian Lifetime Achievement award at PASIC in 2006.
A graduate of both the University of Tennessee and
Catholic University of America, Howard has previously
been a timpanist and percussionist with the United
States Air Force Concert Band, Washington, D.C., and
served as principal percussionist of the Louisville
Orchestra for one season. An adjunct professor of
percussion at Southern Methodist University, Howard
also teaches at the Aspen Music Festival and School where he is the principal
percussionist of the Aspen Festival Orchestra each summer. In addition, he is the principal
percussionist for the Peninsula Music Festival in Door County, Wisconsin during the month
of August. A frequent clinician at PASIC, Howard has served on the PAS Board of Directors
and has been on the faculty of both the Oberlin Percussion Institute and the Ludwig
International Percussion Symposium. As a founding member of the world music percussion
group D’Drum, he has performed with that group at PASIC and at the Santa Fe Chamber
Music Festival.
AIYUN HUANG
Wednesday, 11:00 a.m. Aiyun Huang was winner of the first prize as well as the
audience award (Prix du Public) at the 2002 Geneva
International Music Competition. She has appeared at
the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles
Philharmonic Orchestra’s Green Umbrella Series, LACMA
Concert Series, Holland Festival, Victoria Hall in Geneva,
Agora Festival in Paris, rESOund Festival, Banff Arts
Festival, Vancouver New Music Festival, CBC Radio, La
Jolla Summerfest, and Centro Nacional Di Las Artes in
Mexico City. Between 1997 and 2006, she was a member
of red fish blue fish under the direction of Steven Schick. Her current chamber music
projects include Toea Loca with pianists Gregory Oh and Simon Docking and Ensemble
Meduse featuring interdisciplinary works. Born in Taiwan, Huang immigrated to Canada
when she was seventeen to pursue her studies in percussion with members of Nexus. She
holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Toronto, a Premier Prix from the
Conservatoire Nationale de Region de Rueil-Malmaison in France, and advanced degrees
from the University of California-San Diego. Between 2004 and 2006, she was a faculty
fellow at the University of California–San Diego. Currently, she is an assistant professor and
chair of the percussion area at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in
Montreal, Canada. The Indiana University of Pennsylvania Percussion Ensemble Thursday, 4:00 p.m.
The Indiana University of Pennsylvania Percussion Ensemble (IUP PE) under the direction of
Michael Kingan is dedicated to performing a wide variety of literature chosen for its
substance and
pedagogical value. IUP
PE strives to meet
expectations of
showcasing the talent of
its personnel while
functioning as an
opportunity for intense
learning. By design,
parts are assigned to
students in areas where
they are both proficient
and deficient. Music is
distributed in a balanced fashion so older and younger students have a relatively equal
amount of responsibility on each concert and can perform side by side. The ensemble
rehearses five to six hours a week and performs at least one major concert a semester.
Both the ensemble and the steel band have performed for the Indiana community, in public
schools, at regional and national conventions, and at PAS events. IUP PE also collaborates
with the IUP Dance Theater for periodic productions. The group recently recorded selected
pieces for the HoneyRock Artistic Music Catalogue.
Michael Kingan is associate professor of music and director of percussion studies at
Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of North
Texas, a master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati, and a bachelor’s degree from
Ohio State University. Prior to his appointment at IUP, he held positions at Louisiana State
University and Texas Christian University. Kingan freelanced as a drummer and
percussionist in the Columbus, Cincinnati, Dallas/Ft. Worth, and Baton Rouge/New Orleans
areas, performing with symphonies in all the cities mentioned. He has toured and recorded
with the Atlantic Brass Quintet and performed with the chamber group Pastiche. Intersections Duo
Friday, 11:00 a.m.
A chance meeting at an international percussion festival
in Beijing, China, brought Maltese multi-percussionist
Renzo Spiteri and American marimba/vibraphone artist
Dan Moore together for the first time. In January 2007,
the Intersections Duo successfully launched the
collaboration, performing three sold-out concerts to
audiences in Malta’s capital city of Valletta. Both Moore
and Spiteri are avid collectors of music and instruments
from around the world. Concerts feature groove-based
improvised music with sampled sounds of Chinese
hutongs, all-but-forgotten folk songs, and percussion
instrument oddities woven into the fabric of the music. Maltese multi-percussionist Renzo Spiteri has
performed with artists from across the globe including:
Mercan Dede (Turkey), N’faly Kouyaté (Rep. of Guinea),
Mousse Ndaiye (Senegal), Trilok Gurtu (India), Joji Hirota
(Japan), Yelemba D’Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Nitin Shankar
(India), and Michael Alcorn (N. Ireland). His music has
been featured on MTV and BBC radio, and in art
exhibitions in Malta, Florence, and Tokyo. Dan Moore is professor of music and director of the
percussion program at the University of Iowa. As a
performer, he embraces many musical styles while performing with new acquaintances and
old friends from around the world. Moore enjoys collecting folk melodies and sounds in his
travels and adapting them to his very personal approach to the marimba and vibraphone.
Moore currently serves as chair of the PAS Percussion Ensemble Committee and on the
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J. J. JOHNSON
Friday, 1:00 p.m.
Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, J. J. Johnson
began drumming at the age of twelve. He continued
honing his skills and began studying percussion formally
at the age of fifteen through public education and private
lessons. By seventeen years of age, Johnson was
gigging around town playing various styles of music
including jazz, rock, Latin, country, funk, and blues. After
high school, he briefly moved to New Orleans to pursue
studies in jazz, before moving to his current residence in
Austin, Texas. Johnson quickly became active in the
Austin music scene playing and recording with such artists as Billy White, Ian Moore,
Charlie Sexton, Doyle Bramhall II, and Jon Dee Graham. Johnson then went on to record
and/or perform with such artists as Neil Finn, Sugarland, John Mayer, Matthew Ryan, Joe
Henry, and Jeff Klein. Since 2003, Johnson has been touring with John Mayer and just
finished the Continuum World Tour.
KRISTOPHER KEETON
Kristopher Keeton is the assistant professor of
percussion studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at
Northwestern University and is active in PAS, serving on
the PAS Keyboard Committee and as the Central Virginia
representative for the Virginia/D.C. chapter. Keeton is a
former member of the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra,
Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Owensboro Symphony
Orchestra, and Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle
Corps. He has also performed with the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW Ensemble, Virginia Symphony, Louisville Orchestra,
Chicagoland Pops Orchestra, and Nashville Chamber Orchestra. Keeton has been a
featured artist/clinician in multiple settings and has performed as both keyboard specialist
and drummer with the Mr. Jack Daniel’s Original Silver Cornet Band. He also performed at
PASIC in 2001, and can be heard playing drumset on the Hillvue Heights and Stable Music
recording labels. MI YOUNE KIM
Born in Seoul, Korea in 1980, Mi Youne Kim graduated
from Chung Ang University in 2003 and from the National
Regional Conservatory–Paris (CNR-Paris) in 2005.
Currently, she is in the middle of her postgraduate
studies at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp. Kim was the
winner of the 2007 Universal Marimba Competition and
Festival held in Belgium. In addition to her various
awards and accolades as a solo artist, she has been a
member of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra since 2005
and the Marimba Masters Ensemble since 2007. Marta Klimasara
Friday, 12:00 p.m.
Marta Klimasara has performed with the RSO Stuttgart,
Munich Chamber Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber
Orchestra, National Philharmonic Warsaw, National
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the RSO
Saarbrücken. She also can be heard on radio and
television with the Bavarian and Hessian radio
institutions, with the SWR, France Musique, SR 2
KulturRadio, and Deutschlandradio. Her solo debut
recording I Ching was released in spring 2002. She won
first prize in the 2001 ARD Competition in Munich as well
as the coveted audience prize for musical personality. Klimasara also took first prize in at
the 2nd World Marimba Competition in Japan in 1999 as well as second prize in the 3rd
Krzystof Penderecki International Competition of Contemporary Music in Krakow. Since
2004, Klimasara has served as professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende
Kunst Stuttgart.
David Kuckhermann
Friday, 9:00 a.m.
Hand drummer David Kuckhermann has studied with
such artists as Glen Velez, Behnam Samani, Ramesh
Shotham, and Ustad Fayaz Khan. Kuckhermann has
created his own personal style of hand and finger
drumming, incorporating techniques and rhythms from
the drumming traditions of Iran, India, Egypt, Europe,
Turkey, and Africa. He performed with such artists as
Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Dead Can Dance, Levent, Cordatum,
and Helmut Bieler-Wendt and the Taner Akyol Trio. He
has toured in Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Greece,
Italy, France, Poland, Estonia, Ireland and the United States. In 2006, he released
instructional DVDs on his hand and finger drumming techniques. Bret Kuhn
Saturday, 1:00 p.m.
Bret Kuhn received a bachelor’s degree in music from
Northeast Missouri State University, where he studied
percussion with Dan Petersen. He served as caption
head and percussion arranger for the Cavaliers Drum
and Bugle Corps winning six world championships and
five high percussion awards. He is very active as a
percussion arranger for various colleges and high
schools worldwide. Kuhn has traveled extensively
presenting clinics across the United States, Japan, and
Europe. Currently, he is the percussion coordinator for
the Prospect High School music program and consultant for the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle
Corps. Kuhn has also written articles for Percussive Notes, and serves on the PAS Board of
Directors.
GANESH KUMAR
Kanjira exponent Ganesh Kumar studied with Sri T R Hari
Hara Sharma and Sri T H Subash Chandran. He received
a Fulbright Fellowship in performing arts for 2000 through
2001. During this period, he also provided instruction on
South Indian percussion instruments to students at
Queens College in New York. He has also held workshops
and master classes at such institutions and schools as
California State University–Sacramento, Southern
Oregon University, University of Omaha, Wichita State
University, Juilliard School of Music, Wagner College,
and the UN International School. Kumar has developed a signature series of drums,
kanjiras, and has released an instructional DVD entitled “The Art of Kanjira.” Kumar has
performed worldwide with artists such as Paul Horn, Victor Wooten, Jeff Coffin, Steve
Smith, and Bela Fleck. DREW LANG
Friday, 9:00 a.m.
Percussionist Drew Lang performs regularly with the
Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Opera Orchestra, the
Dallas Wind Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra,
and Casa Mañana Musicals. Dedicated to furthering the
marimba as a solo and chamber music instrument, he
has commissioned and premiered works for marimba in
solo, chamber, and concerto settings. An active recitalist
and clinician, Lang appears throughout the United States
as a soloist and also with his wife, flutist Helen
Blackburn, in the Blackburn/Lang Duo. His performances
have been broadcast on NPR and featured on the McGraw-Hill Young Artists Showcase on
WQXR radio in New York. He is principal percussionist for the Breckenridge Music Festival
Orchestra. He has served as timpanist with the Victoria Bach Festival and principal
percussionist for the Music in the Mountains Festival in Colorado and the International
Festival-Institute at Round Top. Lang has served on the faculties of Fort Lewis College,
Stephen F. Austin State University, the University of Mississippi, the University of Texas at
Tyler, Tyler Junior College, Trinity Valley Community College, and West Chester University of
Pennsylvania. Lang is on the percussion faculty at Southern Methodist University. 76
MORRIS LANG
Friday, 2:00 p.m.
Morris Lang is a graduate of the Juilliard School of
Music. He was a student of Saul Goodman, Morris
Goldenberg, and Billy Gladstone. He has performed with
the New York City Ballet, the American Opera Society,
and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In 1955, he was
appointed associate principal timpanist and
percussionist with the New York Philharmonic.
Recordings featuring Lang include Stravinsky’s Histoire
du Soldat and Carter’s Eight Pieces for Timpani. Lang is
professor of percussion at the Conservatory of Music at
Brooklyn College and in charge of the doctoral percussion program at CUNY. Under his
direction, the Brooklyn College Percussion Ensemble has premiered some sixty works,
many of them commissions. Lang retired from the New York Philharmonic in 1996 in order to
devote more time to Lang Percussion, Inc. In 2000, Lang was inducted into the PAS Hall of
Fame.
The Lassiter High School Percussion Ensemble
Saturday, 9:00 a.m.
The Lassiter High School Percussion Ensemble is a diverse group that performs original
compositions written expressly for percussion instruments, as well as classical, Latin, and
jazz arrangements. The
percussion program has
forty students
comprising three large
ensembles as well as
several small chambers
groups. All of the
percussion ensembles
are extra curricular and
rehearse entirely after
school. The percussion students at Lassiter are trained in a variety of aspects of percussion
and have an opportunity to perform with the Lassiter “Trojan” Marching Band, one of four
concert bands, and a jazz band. Each year “An Evening of Percussion” is held featuring the
various percussion ensembles and student soloists along with special guest artists. Some
past guest soloists and clinicians for the percussion program include: Jack Bell, Michael
Burritt, Lalo Davila, Lynn Glassock, Thom Hannum, Ralph Hardimon, Scott Herring, Steve
Houghton, Jeff Kershner, John Lawless, John Parks, Tom Roady, Charles Settle, Tom
Sherwood, Bill Wilder, and Mark Yanich. The ensemble was invited to perform at the
Georgia Music Educators Association In-Service Conference in 2000 and 2003 and has been
selected to perform again in January 2008. In 2000 and 2002 the ensemble performed at the
Bands of America National Percussion Ensemble Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana. Stanley Leonard
Friday, 2:00 p.m.
Stanley Leonard achieved prominence in the music
world during his thirty-eight year tenure as principal
timpanist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He
performed internationally with the PSO in concerts,
television productions, and recordings. Additionally, as a
solo artist, he premiered several major, new works for
solo timpani and orchestra. Leonard’s extensive
compositions for percussion and other musical mediums
are published in the United States and Europe and
performed around the world. He is author of the method
book Pedal Technique for the Timpani. Leonard can be heard performing and directing his
compositions for percussion on the CD, Canticle. He has also presented master classes at
leading conservatories and universities in the United States and abroad. Currently, Leonard
serves on the PAS Symphonic Committee and has served on the PAS Board of Directors. He
taught for many years as an adjunct professor at Duquesne University and Carnegie-Mellon
University.
RYAN C. LEWIS
Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. Saturday, 9:00 a.m. Ryan C. Lewis currently teaches percussion and world music courses at Claflin University.
Currently pursuing a doctoral degree in percussion performance from the University of
South Carolina, he serves as a graduate teaching assistant in the musicology area. Lewis
earned a master’s degree in percussion performance from Florida State University and a
bachelor’s degree in music education from Furman University. An avid collaborator and
PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY
2008 JAZZ IMPROVISATION COMPETITION
PURPOSE: To encourage the highest level of artistic expression in the art of performance
and improvisation for the following instrument or instruments: vibraphone, marimba, steel
drum. The contest is designed to select four finalists to compete at the 2008 PASIC with a
rhythm section provided by PAS (piano/guitar, bass, and drums). The contest will include cash
awards for the finalists as well as matching grants to their respective percussion programs,
as follows:
First Place: $1,000 plus a matching grant of $1,000
Second Place: $750 plus a matching grant of $750
Third Place: $500 plus a matching grant of $500
Fourth Place: $250 plus a matching grant of $250
The matching grants will be awarded to the institutions represented by the four finalists at
the time of PASIC 2008, and can be used for scholarships, equipment needs or repairs, guest
clinicians/performers, or other percussion area needs.
PROCEDURES: The contest is for college level students who are current Percussive Arts
Society members, ages 18-25 years of age at the time of entry. Each performer must submit
a CD plus 5 copies (6 total) to PAS. Please write the following information for each track on
your CD: the name of the selected piece; the instrument you chose for your solo; the timing
corresponding to the start of your solo. Do not include your name on the CD. All entries will be
numbered to insure anonymity and will then be evaluated by a panel of judges. Each finalist
chosen to compete at PASIC 2008 will not have to pay the convention fee but will be expected
to assume all costs pertaining to the event including travel, room-board, etc. Finalists will be
required to verify age. Selections on the CD must be from the three categories listed below.
All selections on the CD must be performed with live musicians, no overdubs or playing to
tracks will be permitted. Disqualification will occur if the selections are not recorded in their
entirety, the repertoire included does not reflect the three categories as stated below, or
selections have been electronically altered or edited.
• The 12-bar blues piece Straight No Chaser in medium tempo with standard or altered chord
changes. You must include at least three choruses of improvisation.
• A jazz ballad of your choice which must include one chorus of improvisation. (No original
compositions).
• An up-tempo tune in any jazz style except blues which must include at least three choruses
of improvisation. (Composers such as Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Chick
Corea, Pat Matheny, Herbie Hancock, George Gershwin, Tito Puente. No original compositions).
Application Fee: $35 per entry payable to PAS
Send Application Materials to:
PAS, 32 E. Washington, Suite 1400, Indianapolis, IN 46204
Deadline for entries is April 15, 2008
Performer’s Name: ___________________________________________________________
Age________________________________ PAS Membership #________________________
Address ___________________________________________________________________
City_______________________________________________________________________
State _________________________________ Country ______________________________
ZIP or Postal Code ______________________ E-mail address ________________________
Phone Number ______________________________________________________________ Summer Phone Number _______________________________________________________
Teacher ____________________________________________________________________
CD Track Information _________________________________________________________
chamber musician, Lewis has made special guest
appearances with So Percussion, Afro-pop guitarist
Habib Koité, and zheng-master Haiqiong Deng in her
Carnegie Hall debut. He has performed with the South
Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra and the symphony
orchestras of Charleston, Greenville, Columbus,
Tallahassee, Long Bay, Hendersonville, and at the Aspen
Music Festival. Lewis currently serves on the PAS
Collegiate Committee. CHIN CHENG LIN
Saturday, 4:00 p.m.
Currently, Chin Cheng Lin studies marimba with Ludwig
Albert and composition with Alain Craens at the Royal
Conservatorium Antwerp. He also served as instructor of
marimba for a percussion seminar in La Corunna, Spain,
and has given master classes at the Queensland
Conservatorium, Australian National University, La
Corunna Professional Conservatory, National University
Chiapas, and University Patagonia of Fine Arts. Lin has
performed in fourteen countries and is a concert artist for
Marimba Projects in Belgium and New Art, Inc. in Taiwan.
In 2007, his performance tour will take him to Croatia,
Slovenia, France, Russia, Australia Argentina, the United Kingdom, and the United States. As
a composer, his compositions are published with Beurskens Music Editions Netherlands. Lin
has received several honors and accolades. In 2007, he was the first-prize winner of the 4th
European Soloist Competition in Birmingham. In 2006, Lin received the Outstanding Culture
Award at the Taiwanese Artist Festival for promoting Taiwanese Art. In 2004, he received the
Young Talent Prize at the International Marimba Competition in Belgium. Anthony Malatesta
Friday, 2:00 p.m.
Anthony Malatesta, talam artist, earned his bachelor’s
degree in music from the Berklee College of Music and
his master’s degree in world music performance from the
University of London School of Oriental and African
Studies. While at Berklee, he studied guitar with Bruce
Bartlett, and was exposed to South Indian Classical music
for the first time by percussionist Jamey Haddad. He then
pursued his interest in Karnatak music by going to India
and studying mridangam with Erode K. S. Nagarajan of
Chennai, a senior disciple of Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman.
Malatesta has also studied Afro-Cuban music with Eugie
Castrillo of Puerto Rico, and West African drumming with Mohamed Kalifa Kamara of
Guinea.
MARIMBA AYIN
Saturday, 4:00 p.m. Marimba Ayin is a university-based, Guatemalan marimba ensemble from the University of
Florida (UF). In 2005, the ensemble began its performing career at the 2006 Latin American
Artists-in-Residence
Program for the UF
Center for World Arts.
During the residency,
Guatemalan musicians
Manuel Suar and Pedro
Velasquez spent over two
months in Gainesville,
Florida imparting their
skills to the musicians
who now make up
Marimba Ayin. Since its
inception, Marimba Ayin has performed in concerts, workshops, and master classes in the
greater Gainesville area and throughout Florida. Memorable performances include the 2006
Fiesta Maya in Jupiter, Florida for the Corn Maya organization. Workshops, master classes,
and other academic presentations have been presented to high school Spanish classes,
university world music classes, and university percussion studios. Currently, the ensemble is
preparing for a fall 2007 tour, which will include the group’s performance at PASIC 2007. The
central goal of Marimba Ayin is to promote Guatemalan music and dance through the
interpretation of folkloric, popular, and art music on the marimba. 78
STUART MARRS
Wednesday, 2:00 p.m. As soloist, clinician, orchestral timpanist-percussionist,
conductor, and teacher, Dr. Stuart Marrs’s professional
experience spans over thirty-five years and three
continents. His principal orchestral positions include the
orchestras of Louisville, Bolivia, and Costa Rica. His freelance experience includes such diverse areas as
television, Ice Capades, jazz, symphonic orchestras,
experimental groups, and solo and chamber recital
performances. Marrs has an extensive international
profile having taught and performed in France,
Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, El Salvador,
Bolivia, and Costa Rica. Marrs is founder and past president of the Maine Chapter of the
Percussive Arts Society. He has taught at the National University of Costa Rica, Indiana
University, and the University of Maine, where he presently occupies the position of chair of
the music division. In 2005, he authored the analytical DVD entitled Stuart Marrs on Elliott
Carter: Eight Pieces for Four Timpani-Performance and Analysis. Billy Martin
Saturday, 11:00 a.m. As the drummer for Medesdki, Martin & Wood, Billy
Martin has successfully blended his own style with those
from around the world. His roots-based approach digs
deep into the African-fed cultures of Brazil and the
Caribbean. Martin plays on these rhythms with the heart
of an improviser with influences ranging from avantgarde to hip-hop. The result of his commitment to
discovering the richness of world cultures, while
developing his own personal sound on the instrument, is
evident in each performance.
BRIAN S. MASON
Thursday, 1:00 p.m. Brian S. Mason is a member of the percussion faculty at
Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, and
is the director of the award-winning MSU Marching
Percussion Ensemble. At MSU, Mason is a member of
the faculty jazz ensemble, the faculty chamber
ensemble, and performs regularly with the faculty brass
quintet. Off-campus, he is a member of the Lexington
Philharmonic Orchestra, and performs regularly with a
vibraphone/piano duo featuring Steven Snyder as well.
Mason received his master’s degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is
pursuing his doctoral degree at the University of Kentucky, where he received his
bachelor’s degree as well. As a guest artist, clinician, designer, and adjudicator, Mason has
traveled extensively throughout the United States, Japan, Canada, Korea, and Mexico. He
gained recognition for his percussion writing and teaching with the Cavaliers and the
Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps, and is currently the percussion coordinator and
designer with the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps. Mason is a member of the
PAS Health and Wellness Committee and the PAS Marching Percussion Committee.
MICHAEL MCINTOSH
Saturday, 12:00 p.m. Michael McIntosh is currently a percussion designer/
arranger and the music coordinator for the Bluecoats
Drum and Bugle Corps. His daily activities include acting
as one of two percussion coordinators for the CarmelClay school district in Carmel, Indiana. In 2005, the
Carmel Marching Band was named the BOA Grand
National Champion and the Carmel Wind Ensemble
performed at the 2005 Midwest Band and Orchestra
Clinic. McIntosh is an active clinician and has performed
clinics for TMEA, OMEA, DCI, WGI, MEPA, IPA, BOA,
Yamaha Sounds of Summer, and PASIC. He has traveled extensively throughout the United
States and Europe as a sought after percussion consultant and adjudicator. His percussive
works are published by such companies as Row-Loff Publications, Tap Space Publications,
drop6 Media, Inc., the Hal Leonard Corporation, Marching Show Concepts, and JKS Music.
McIntosh is currently enrolled in Butler University, where he is pursuing a degree in theory
and composition under the tutelage of composer Dr. Michael Schelle.
JON METZGER
As a jazz vibist, Jon Metzger has toured, recorded, and
lectured extensively. A winner of a National Endowment
for the Arts Fellowship Grant for Performance, he has
appeared at well-known jazz venues across the United
States and has led his quartet on tours of Germany, Italy,
Holland, Belgium, and Austria. He has served as a jazz
ambassador to more than twenty foreign countries under
the auspices of the United States Information Agency’s
Arts America Program. He has also performed at the
Spoleto Festival, the East Coast Jazz Festival in
Washington, D.C., Jazzfest Festival in Kingston, Jamaica, American Composers Series at
Strathmore Hall Arts Center (Maryland), and on the Martin Williams Jazz Concert Series at
the Kennedy Center. Metzger has released seven recordings as leader and dozens of other
recordings as a sideman. He has conducted numerous master classes at colleges and
universities including Berklee College of Music, the University of North Texas, the University
of North Florida, and CAL Arts. His articles have appeared in Percussive Notes, Jazz Player
magazine, and Sticks & Mallets magazine. Metzger’s many works for percussion are
published by C. Alan Publications including his method book The Art and Language of Jazz
Vibes. Metzger is artist in residence and associate professor of music at Elon University,
where he received the coveted Distinguished Scholar Award. He also serves as the
associate editor of the International Association of Jazz Educators journal, and was
recently presented with the North Carolina Miles Davis Jazz Education Service Award.
Metzger earned both his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from North Carolina School
of the Arts. DOM MOIO
Thursday, 2:00 p.m.
Dom Moio has been playing drums since the fifth grade.
His first influence was funk master Bernard Purdie.
However, after hearing Miles Davis with drummer Jimmy
Cobb, Moio’s attention was directed toward jazz. Leaving
the East Coast in 1979, Moio played with jazz luminaries
such as Mose Allison, Herb Ellis, Ahmad Jamal, and
Clark Terry. He also had the opportunity to meet and
study with Walfredo Reyes, Sr. He has recorded two
compact discs with Carl Fontana. Moio also recorded
with The Jazz Nonet, Chuck Marohnic, and Greg Hopkins.
In 1997, Moio had the opportunity to record with the Four Tops playing both drumset and
Latin percussion. He has written and published two books: Latin Percussion in Perspective
and Be-Bop Phrasing for Drums. Moio is currently teaching a Latin percussion class, music
in world cultures, and applied percussion lessons at Mesa Community College, as well as
keeping a busy schedule at Arizona State University. Jimmie Morales
Saturday, 9:00 a.m.
As a young man living in Puerto Rico, Jimmie Morales
first dabbled in music by playing the guitar and then later
the conga drum. The mastering of the conga drum would
become his main artistic pursuit. Initially, he learned by
listening to records. He listened to such congueros as
Milton Cardona, Eddie Montalvo, Patato Valdez, Candido
Camero, Mongo Santamaria, Johnny Rodriguez, and Ray
Barretto. In 1978, Morales joined the rhythmically tight
and very popular band of Willie Rosario, who always
features as strong conga drummer. Morales spent the
next eight years in what he considers his formal training in music and the music business.
At this time, he also started an impressive career as a studio musician, performing in
sessions for almost every major artist in the salsa genre such as Roberto Roena, Oscar
D’Leon, Lalo Rodriguez, Frankie Ruiz, and Eddie Santiago. In 1986, Morales started
performing with a young Gilberta Santa Rosa. Morales also has performed and/or recorded
with such artists as Willie Colon, lsmael Miranda, Tito Nieves, Juan Luis Guerra, Grupo
Niche, and Jerry Rivera.
ANDY NARELL
Saturday, 11:00 a.m. Saturday 8:00 p.m.
With his first solo album in 1979, Andy Narell took the steelpan out of the steelband and
brought it into the jazz band. With every recording since, he has explored the possibilities
and expanded the role of the pan in contemporary music. He’s made more than a dozen
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albums as leader, two more as co-leader of the
Caribbean Jazz Project, and two as co-leader of
Sakésho. And along the way he has worked with artists
as diverse as Chucho Valdes, Bela Fleck, Marcus Miller,
David Rudder, Black Stalin, Spyro Gyra, Steve Smith/Vital
Information, John Patitucci, Jimmy Haslip, Vusi
Mahlasela, Dr. Billy Taylor, Irakere, Tito Puente, Flora
Purim and Airto, Vince Mendoza and The WDR Big Band
(Koln), Angelique Kidjo, Etienne Mbappé, Mokhtar
Samba, Nancy Wilson, Toto, Aretha Franklin, and the
Kronos String Quartet. He has performed on movie
scores by James Horner, Maurice Jarre, Elmer
Bernstein, Hans Zimmer, Michel Colombier, and Thomas Newman, and his compositions
have been featured in the film The Firm, and on television shows like Designing Women and
Going to Extremes. As a bandleader, he has played hundreds of concerts and at jazz
festivals throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, the Caribbean, South
America, and South Africa. In 1999 Narell, became the first foreigner to compose for
Trinidad’s Panorama steel band competition, guiding the Skiffle Bunch Steel Orchestra to
the finals of both the 1999 and 2000 Panoramas. He has been an artist in residence at
several universities and schools including: University of North Texas, Wichita State
University, University of West Virginia, University of Akron, University of Illinois, Northern
Illinois, and University of Southern Mississippi. Narell is currently living in Paris and working
with Sakésho and the Andy Narell Steelband Project.
Lewis NASH
Friday, 3:00 p.m.
Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Lewis Nash developed an early
interest in music and began playing drumset at ten years
of age. By the time he was twenty-one years old, Nash
began working in the Phoenix area with artists Sonny
Stitt, Art Pepper, Red Garland, Lee Konitz, Barney Kessell,
and Slide Hampton. In 1981, Nash moved to New York
City, where he worked with jazz vocalist Betty Carter. For
nearly four years, he toured internationally with Ms.
Carter. He is featured on three of her recordings,
including the Grammy Award winning Look What I Got.
From 1990 to 2000, he also toured and recorded with both the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and
the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. He has an impressive discography with over 300
recordings to his credit. Nash has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Ron
Carter, Branford Marsalis, J. J. Johnson, Don Pullen/George Adams quartet, Sonny Rollins,
Stan Getz, Art Farmer, Clark Terry, Milt Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Hank
Jones, John Lewis, Diana Krall, Joe Lovano, and Roy Hargrove. Nash is also featured on
recordings by Natalie Cole, Bette Midler, Nancy Wilson, Kenny Rankin, Melissa Manchester,
and George Michael. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PERCUSSION STUDIO ENSEMBLE
The New York University Percussion Studio Ensemble (NYU), directed and conducted by
Jonathan Haas, focuses its’ repertoire on the seminal works of the 20th and 21st centuries.
From the powerful works
of iconoclast Edgar
Varese to his modern
day counterpart, Frank
Zappa, to the cutting
edge compositional
styles of NYU
composition and music
technology faculty
Morton Subtonick, the
ensemble explores the
entire range of styles
and mediums including
the creation of the NYU Steel Band Ensemble. The NYU Percussion Studio Ensemble meets
once a week in an intensive music setting. Two concerts are presented each year in
addition to numerous chamber music concerts and guest artist appearances. In the spring
of 2008, the NYU Classical Percussion Ensemble will join forces with the Blessed Unrest
Theater Company. Young music students will collaborate with professional actors thus
creating a cross-disciplinary experience that combines artists of differing cultures and
career development goal posts into one similarly minded troupe. artists and clinicians
PAS/Yamaha Terry Gibbs
Vibraphone Scholarship
Legendary vibraphonist Terry Gibbs began his career at
the age of 12 after winning the Major Bowes Amateur
Hour Contest and subsequently began touring
professionally. He performed for many years as a
drummer and percussionist until his affinity for
bebop motivated him to return to the vibes and
subsequently become recognized as one of the
best ever to grace the genre of bop.
After World War II, Gibbs toured with Buddy
Rich, Woody Herman, Louie Bellson, Benny
Goodman and formed his own band for the
Mel Torme television show. Gibbs led his own bands in the 50’s and in 1957 formed the critically acclaimed big band
“The Dream Band”. Throughout his career he has enjoyed world acclaim playing with jazz luminaries, Buddy DeFranco,
Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, Horace Silver, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones and Tito Puente.
Terry Gibbs is a Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame member with 65 albums to his credit, winner of three major jazz
polls and creator of over 300 compositions. This scholarship is in honor of the indelible mark Gibbs has left on the
world of vibes.
Eligibility: The scholarship is open to any full time student registered in an accredited college or university school of music
during the 2008–2009 academic year. Applicant must be a current member of the Percussive Arts Society.
Application Materials: All applicants must submit a completed application, a letter of recommendation verifying age and
school attendance, and a DVD.
Criteria: The DVD should be no longer than ten minutes in length. Additional time will not be considered and may
negatively affect evaluation of the application.
The selection(s) within the DVD should represent live jazz vibraphone performance and not be edited.
The applicant must be visible throughout the submitted performance(s).
The ability of the applicant to perform on additional percussion or other instruments is not a consideration for this
scholarship.
Download and application: www.pas.org/news/contests/index.cfm
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
The Northwestern University Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Michael Burritt is
a three-time winner of the PAS “Call for Tapes” International Percussion Ensemble
Competition. Having previously appeared at PASIC 1996 and 2002, the ensemble most
recently presented a concert at Millennium Park in Chicago for more than 10,000 listeners.
Ensemble programming has consisted of works by Cage, Donatoni, Lang, Maslanka, Reich,
Takemitsu, Varese, Viñao, and Xenakis. The ensemble completed its first compact disc
recording to be released this winter on the Resonator Records label. Guest artists such as
Leigh Stevens, Bob Becker, Anders Åstrand, Gordon Stout, Bill Cahn, Robin Engelman, Steve
Schick, Emmanuel Séjourné, and Marta Kilmasara have performed with the ensemble.
DOUGLAS NOTTINGHAM
Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. Dr. Douglas Nottingham is a percussionist, performance
artist, composer, music educator, and producer. He
performs in many diverse genres, ranging from symphony
orchestras to jazz groups, contemporary chamber music
to multi-media ensembles, and original heavy metal
bands to ethnomusicological ensembles. As a solo
percussionist/technologist and as a member of the
Crossing 32nd Street and Links Ensembles, he specializes
in the performance of modern and postmodern chamber
works by established and emerging artists. He is
additionally a member of the rock group Skümbaag and the marimba group Vespus. He
appears regularly as recitalist on international symposia and national and regional concert
series, has premiered and commissioned many new chamber and elctroacoustic works,
and is the recipient of numerous grants in that regard. He holds degrees from Arizona State
University, the University of New Mexico, and Limestone College. Nottingham has been on
the Glendale Community College (GCC) faculty since 1998, where he teaches computer
music, commercial music, and percussion as well as directing the GCC Percussion
Ensemble.
OAK MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
Friday, 9:00 a.m.
Oak Mountain High School now in its ninth year is located in Birmingham, Alabama. The
instrumental music program at Oak Mountain enjoys the balance of year round concert,
jazz, and percussion ensembles as well as a tradition of marching band excellence in the
fall. The students of the
Oak Mountain High
School Percussion
Ensemble have received
superior ratings each of
the last three years at
the local concert
percussion festival. The
ensemble was selected
to perform on the
Alabama Day of
Percussion in 2006.
Individual students have
been very successful in Alabama All-State Band auditions. The Oak Mountain High School
Percussion Ensemble is now in its fourth year under the direction of Kevin Ownby. Kevin
Ownby received a master of music degree in percussion performance from the University of
Colorado-Boulder and a bachelor of music degree in music education from Samford
University in Birmingham, Alabama.
Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps Drumline
Saturday, 3:00 p.m.
Steeped in tradition, the
United States Army’s Old
Guard Fife and Drum
Corps Drumline is a living
example of the origins of
modern rudimental
drumming. The
drumline’s style blends
elements of traditional
American rudimental
drumming, Swiss and
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Scottish field drumming, and modern rudimental concepts. As a section, they continue to
uphold the traditions of rudimental drumming by offering clinics and performing at
percussion exhibitions. Members of this unique line come from many drumming
backgrounds including traditional fife and drum corps, drum and bugle corps, Scottish pipe
band, orchestral, and jazz.
The Panyard Steel Orchestra (PSO)
Friday, 10:00 p.m. The Panyard Steel Orchestra (PSO) is one of the only professional steel orchestras of its
kind in the United States. Featured at many steel drum festivals including the International
Association of Pan
Conventions, the PSO
performs some of the
most complex literature
from the island of
Trinidad. The PSO
members include St.
Lucian vocalist Deighton
“Revealer”
Charlemagne, Angel
Bice, Stan Dahl and
Steve Lawrie on Lead,
Ron Kerns and Scott
Velardo on Seconds, Steve Popernack on Cello, and Jim Huff on Bass. These core members
of the group represent the driving force behind the successful steel drum company
Panyard, Inc. They are not only top performers, but design and build the “Solid Hoop” pans
that create the rich sound of the PSO. Featured artists this year will include Philadelphia
drummer Chris Hanning, Switzerland panist Junior Gill, and Nashville percussionist Lalo
Davila. Junior Gill performs all over the world with Billy Cobham’s group, Lalo Davila can be
seen with the top performing groups in the Nashville area, and Chris Hanning recently
released his drum set instruction DVD “Island Grooves” that has revolutionized the
education of this style of drum set performance.
PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE CHUNG ANG
Thursday, 8:00 p.m. The Percussion Ensemble Chung Ang (PECA), founded by Choi Jong Sil, is a professional
percussion ensemble. Through the drum, the dance, and song, the ensemble strives to
provide audiences with exciting Korean traditional performances as well as diverse cultural
performances. Since its
establishment, PECA
members have
performed in Asia,
Europe, Australia, and
the United States. The
group has also
performed at various
festivals including the
2007 Taiwan
International Drum Art
Festival, 2006 Sacheon
International Percussion
Festival, and 2004 Athens Olympics. RAFAEL PEREIRA
Thursday, 9:00 a.m. Rafael Pereira, nicknamed “Rafa,” grew up in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. Inspired by the contagious sounds of street
parades and outdoor concerts, he began studying drums
and percussion at the age of twelve. In Brazil, he had the
opportunity to attend workshops with acclaimed
percussionists such as Airto Moreira, Nana Vasconcelos,
Guello, Marcos Suzano, and Alex Acuna. His music is a
fusion of traditional styles of samba, choro, frevo,
maracatu, and baião with various styles of contemporary
music. As a teenager, Pereira co-founded and directed a
samba ensemble, composing music and booking performances. After graduating from high
school in 2002, he relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, where he began widening his studies in
world music. Since then, he has performed with several local artists, including Brazilian/
Latin Jazz guitarist Sasha Lisnichuk. He has also organized a Brazilian “Batucada” group at
Georgia State University and directed them at the Rialto Center of Performing Arts in
Atlanta, Georgia. He currently plays with RUA 6 Band, voted the best Latin Band in the
Atlanta area by USA Today. He has been invited again to host a workshop on Samba and
“Batucada” at PASIC 2007 as well as teach at two regional percussion events, the Sonny
Emory Summer Camp and the Jason Currin Festival. He is also busy organizing his
“Batucada” group called Bratuque, recording his own solo compact disc, and producing
instructional percussion videos.
Harrison Powley
Harrison Powley, Karl G. Maeser General Education
Professor of Music in the School of Music at Brigham
Young University and past president of the American
Musical Instrument Society, holds degrees from the
Eastman School of Music. Besides being a musicologist,
he studied timpani and percussion at Eastman with
William G. Street and at the Akademie für Musik in
Vienna as a Fulbright scholar with Richard Hochrainer.
STEPHEN PRIMATIC
Thursday, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Stephen Primatic is currently an associate professor
of music at Armstrong Atlantic State University in
Savannah, Georgia. He received a bachelor of music
degree from Wilkes University, a master of music degree
from the University of Miami, and a doctor of musical arts
degree from the University of Georgia. In addition to
teaching, Primatic also maintains an active performing
career. He is principal percussionist with the Hilton Head
Symphony Orchestra in South Carolina, and he also
performs with symphonies in Savannah, Charleston, and
Jacksonville. He is the drummer for the Darius Rucker
Big Band. Primatic also has several musical publications with Meredith Music, drop6 media,
Inc., and Music for Percussion, Inc. MIKE QUINN
Friday, 1:00 p.m.
Mike Quinn was born in the United States, where he
studied with Al Lepak, Simon Sternberg, and Vic Firth. He
also was percussionist with the Indianapolis Symphony.
In 1969, he moved to Europe to study with Karl Peinkofer
at the Munich Hochschule and play with the Bavarian
State Opera. Next, he went to Switzerland to begin his
tenure as prinicipal timpanist of the Tonhalle Orchestra in
Zurich. Quinn then went to Milan, Italy, to be principal
timpanist in the orchestra of the La Scala Opera under
Claudio Abbado. After leaving La Scala, he returned to
Switzerland and began teaching, which has become his main profession. Besides
permanent positions in Switzerland and Milan, he is percussion coach for the Gustav
Mahler Youth Orchestra of Vienna, and teacher for the Mahler Academy in Bolzano, Italy. SALVATORE RABBIO
Friday, 2:00 p.m.
From 1958 until his retirement in 1998, Salvatore Rabbio
held the position of principal timpanist with the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra. During that time, he also served as
adjunct professor at the University of Michigan (1987–98)
and as the chair of the percussion department and
director of the percussion ensemble at Wayne State
University in Detroit (1962–86). Rabbio performed world
premieres of several concertos for timpani and
orchestra; and as a member of the DSO, toured
extensively and recorded on the Mercury, Columbia, RCA
London, and Chandos labels. He was formerly a member of the Boston Percussion
Ensemble and soloist with the Boston Pops touring with Arthur Fiedler. As an active
clinician, Rabbio has been featured at several Percussive Arts Society International
Conventions and guest lecturer at many universities and conservatories.
PAUL RENNICK
Paul Rennick has served on the faculty of the University of North Texas since 1991, and is
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also adjunct faculty at Texas Christian University. Having
taught, written, and arranged for many of the percussion
ensembles in the country, Rennick is recognized as a
leader in the field of marching percussion. He has been a
featured clinician at various conferences including
PASIC. Since 1989, he has also written and designed the
shows for the University of North Texas Indoor Drumline,
who has won the PAS Marching Percussion Festival an
unprecedented thirteen times. He is currently the
director of percussion for the Phantom Regiment Drum
and Bugle Corps, recently named winner of the 2006
Drum Corps International Fred Sanford Award for
outstanding percussion performance. Rennick was a design team member, music
composer/arranger, instructor, and percussion manager for the award-winning Broadway
production Blast! He is also a member of the PAS Marching Percussion Committee, and has
many percussion ensemble works published through drop6 media, Inc.
K. S. RESMI
Friday, 2:00 p.m.
K. S. Resmi is a skilled classical vocalist from Kerala,
South India. She has studied with Dr. K. Omanakutty, and
now studies South Indian classiscal music with Smt.
Lalitha Shivakumar. Resmi also studied Kathakali padams,
the traditional music of Kerala, with Sri Nelliyode
Vasudevan Namboodiri. Her training in Hindustani music
was with Sri Ramesh Narayan. She also continues
Carnatic vina studies with Smt. Kamala Lekshmi. Her
formal education includes earning a bachelor’s degree
and a master’s degree in Carnatic music at H. H. The
Maharaja’s College for Women at the University of Kerala
in Trivandrum, Kerala. Currently, she is pursuing a doctoral degree from the University of
Kerala. From 2004 to 2007, she served as a faculty member at the University of Madra.
Currently, she performs in a unique duo with her husband, world percussionist N. Scott
Robinson. Peter Retzlaff
Peter Retzlaff is a New York based drummer. As a
performer, he has played with Kenny Werner, Greg Osby,
Diane Schuur, Maynard Ferguson, Virginia Mayhew, and
the BMI Big Band. He has performed at the North Sea
Jazz Festival, Litchfield Jazz Festival, Aarhus Jazz
Festival, and the Schaffhausen Jazz Festival. He has
performed at major New York clubs such as The Blue
Note and the Bottom Line. As an educator, Peter has
been on faculty at the Drummers Collective since 1996. He maintains an active private teaching schedule, and he
teaches classes in jazz, funk, rock, reggae, fusion, odd times, reading, rudiments,
independence, and ensemble performance. Peter has a B.A in Jazz and Commercial Music,
and a B.A. Business Administration from Capital University. In addition, he has an M.M. in
Jazz Studies from the Manhattan School of Music. Peter has been awarded three grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts.
WALFREDO REYES JR.
Thursday, 3:00 p.m.
Whether in the recording studios, producing, touring, or
presenting educational clinics worldwide on percussion
and/or drumset, Walfredo Reyes Jr. is an artist
comfortable in any musical setting. In his professional
career, he has worked with artists such as Carlos
Santana, Steve Winwood, Robbie Robertson, Jackson
Browne, Ricky Lee Jones, Boz Scags, Joe Sample, Larry
Carlton, Tania Maria, David Lindley, Dave Grusin, Ricky
Martin, Christina Aguilera, Gloria Estefan, Celia Cruz,
Khaled, Sergio Mendes, Jimmy Barnes, and Johnny
Hallyday. He has recorded as well as performed live in
countless movies and television soundtracks. Reyes has compiled an instructional DVD
entitled Global Beats for drums and percussion. He is currently recording and touring with
Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac. Reyes is slated to release his own compact disc
recording Welcome to Wallyworld next year. artists and clinicians
N. SCOTT ROBINSON
Friday, 2:00 p.m.
N. Scott Robinson, mbira dza vadzimu artist, is a full-time
faculty member in the music history and literature
division of Towson University in Maryland. At Towson, he
teaches a variety of courses in the areas of world,
popular, and American music. FERNANDO ROCHA
Friday, 3:00 p.m.
Fernando Rocha has been professor of percussion at
Minas Gerais Federal University in Brazil since 1998. He
is currently completing his doctoral studies at McGill
University in Montreal, Canada. Rocha has a full
scholarship from the Brazilian Agency Capes, and is a
member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in
Music, Media, and Technology (CIRMMT). As a
performer, he has premiered percussion works by
composers such as Lewis Nielson, Almeida Prado,
Sérgio Freire, Nicolas Gilbert, Brian Cherney, Geof
Holbrook and Mario Alfaro. As a lecturer/performer, he
has appeared in many festivals in Brazil as well as
Argentina, America, Portugal, France and Canada.
Recent appearances by Rocha include PASIC 2005, the
9th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (2006), and the “Roots and Rhizomes”
Percussion Conference at University of California, San Diego (2007). In addition to working
with contemporary music, Rocha has played jazz vibes with such renowned Brazilian
musicians as flutist Mauro Rodrigues, drummer Nenen, and guitarist Magno Alexandre. In
1997, he was awarded a scholarship to study jazz vibes in New York, where he also played
with Bobby Sanabria’s Big Band.
Gary Rudolph
Thursday, 3:00 p.m.
Gary Rudolph is currently a band director and percussion
instructor at Ben David High School in Indianapolis,
Indiana. He is a proud graduate of both the University of
Kentucky with a bachelor’s degree in music and Miami
University with a master’s degree in music performance.
Rudolph is an active percussion arranger, composer, and
instructor. His experiences include four world
championships with the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps
and multiple state championships with high school
marching bands and competitive percussion ensembles. Marcus Santos and BatukAxé
Friday, 12:00 p.m.
BatukAxé (pronounced baa-too-kah-SHAY) is a Boston-area ensemble dedicated to the
preservation and promotion of the vibrant Afro-Brazilian Carnival traditions of Bahía, a state
in northern Brazil, where
ninety percent of the
population is of African
descent. The region’s
Carnival music is rooted
in the Axé rhythms,
which emerged from
Candomblé, a religion
practiced by Brazilian
slaves. Carnival in
Bahia’s capital city of
Salvador centers around
the blocos afros, or carnival clubs, that provide the musical “voice” of this celebration.
Although rooted in African percussion, the blocos afros have also incorporated the sounds
of rhythm and blues, funk, rock, and calypso. The energetic Marcus Santos leads BatukAxé.
Born and raised in the city of Salvador, Santos grew up in the blocos afros tradition. After
performing with Brazilian groups like Mambolada and Jheremmias, he won a scholarship to
attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. Upon his arrival to the United States, Santos
founded BatukAxé and its parent organization, AfroBrazil, dedicated to keeping Brazilian
percussion traditions alive in the United States. Santos has performed with artists such as
the Gypsy Kings and Paquito D’Riveira. He has also just completed an educational DVD on
playing the pandeiro.
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Emmanuel Séjourné
Thursday, 8:00 p.m.
After classical music studies at the Strasbourg
Conservatory, Emmanuel Séjourné specialized in
keyboard percussion. Since 1981, he has been active as
a performer, composer, and teacher. As a performer, he
founded the NOCO MUSIC ensemble with Philippe Geiss.
The group’s recording, Saxophone and Percussion, won
the 1984 Chamber Grand Prix awarded by the Academie
du disque Français. He has premiered over one hundred
works including concertos recorded with the
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra as well as solo and
chamber works with the ensemble Accroche Note. As a composer, Séjourné has written
pieces for theater, dance, radio, and television. His works have been commissioned by such
artists and groups as Robert Van Sice, Nancy Zeltsman, Bogdan Bacanu, Gary Cook, John
Pennington, Amsterdam Percussion Group and Ju Percussion Group. In addition to
performing and composing, Séjourné teaches as well. Currently, Emmanuel Séjourné serves
as head of the percussion program at the Strasbourg Conservatory.
HEATHER SLOAN
Saturday, 2:00 p.m.
Percussionist and educator, Dr. Heather Sloan’s scholarly
work focuses on world and popular music. In 2000, she
spent a Fulbright year in the Dominican Republic studying
folkloric drumming. Currently, her interests include music
of the Caribbean, and the use of percussion in bachelorpad music of the mid-twentieth century. She resides in
Greencastle, Indiana, with her husband and two small
children.
So Percussion
Saturday, 1:00 p.m.
Featuring members Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, and Lawson White, SO
Percussion group is a unique percussion ensemble providing “funky contemporary music”
for its audiences.
Following two compact
disc recordings of music
by Steve Reich, David
Lang, and Evan Ziporyn,
as well as ongoing
collaborations with Björk
producers Matmos, the
ensemble continues to
perform, teach, and
record through the
United States and
abroad. The group has
performed and provided master classes at such institutions as Princeton University, the
University of Texas, and the University of Oklahoma. Additionally, SO Percussion has
commissioned and premiered works by such composers as David Lang, Paul Lansky, Dennis
DeSantis and Suzanne Farrin. The group has also performed at the Miller Theatre and
Carnegie Hall in New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Walker Center in
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
JOEL SPENCER
Saturday, 2:00 p.m.
Drumset artist Joel Spencer has performed with a
number of internationally known jazz artists in Chicago
and throughout the world. He has appeared with such
artists as Wayne Shorter, David Liebman, Clark Terry,
Michael Feinstein, Cissy Houston, Scott Hamilton, Chet
Baker, Phil Woods, Wynton Marsalis, Benny Golson, and
pianist/conductor Daniel Barenboim of the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra. In recent years, Spencer has
traveled to Europe appearing at Tivoli Gardens in
Copenhagen with the Jazz Members Big Band, the
Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy with vocalist Joe Williams and pianist Dorothy
Donegan, The North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland with jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis and bassist
Major Holly, and the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Eilat, Israel with Frank Tiberi and a select
group of Chicago musicians sponsored by the Ameritech Corporation, As a studio and
session drummer, Spencer has recorded commercial radio and television ads and movies
soundtracks such as A League of Their Own. In addition to performing and recording,
Spencer has presented clinics and master classes across the United States. Currently,
Spencer serves as a faculty member and coordinator of jazz studies at Northwestern
University School of Music. The St. X Jungle Drummers
Thursday, 3:00 p.m.
The St. X Jungle Drummers is a group of high school students from St. Xavier High School in
Louisville, Kentucky, who specialize in African-style djembe drumming. The group’s name is
related to the St. Xavier
mascot, the tiger, and the
ensemble’s first public
performance at a
“Welcome to the
Jungle” themed event.
The Jungle Drummers
have played at a variety
of school functions and
also performed
educational programs at
Louisville-area
elementary schools. The
group also performed at the PAS Kentucky Chapter Day of Percussion in February 2007. The
group’s director, Rick Mattingly, is a student of African drumming elder Yaya Diallo, author of
the book The Healing Drum.
THOMAS STUBBS
Thomas Stubbs is currently cymbal specialist and
assistant timpanist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra,
which he joined in 1970. He has been an artist-faculty
member of the Aspen Music Festival and School since
1989, and is a member of the percussion faculty at St.
Louis University. Stubbs graduated in 1970 from the
Juilliard School of Music, where he studied with Saul
Goodman and was a private student of Buster Bailey. He
also studied with Morris Goldenberg at the National
Orchestral Association. He has served as principal
timpanist for the St. Louis Symphony during European tours and in the absence of principal
timpanist, Rick Holmes. With the orchestra, he has recorded extensively for the RCA, Angel/
EMI, Telarc, Nonesuch, and Vox labels. He is featured on the premiere recording of Michael
Colgrass’s “Deja vu,” a concerto for percussion quartet and orchestra. TALUJON
With an annual schedule of more than sixty concerts, including a dozen premieres, the
Talujon Percussion Quartet is thoroughly committed to the expansion of the contemporary
percussion repertoire as
well as the education
and diversification of its
worldwide audience.
Recent Talujon
commissions include
quartets by Ralph
Shapey, Wayne
Peterson, Julia Wolfe,
Ushio Torikai, Louis
Karchin, Steven Ricks
and Chien Yin Chen.
Performances have included collaborations with James Tenney, Chou Wen Chung and Tan
Dun. Based in New York City, Talujon performs regularly at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert
Hall, the Kitchen and the Knitting Factory. Talujon has appeared in universities and concert
halls throughout the United States and on such festivals as Taipei’s Lantern Festival, BAM1s
Next Wave Festival, Chautauqua, California’s Festival of New American Music and Bang on
a Can. The group has also given master classes and workshops at institutions such as the
Juilliard School of Music, Stanford University, and the University of Oregon. Talujon’s new
CD, ...the speed of the passing time..., features the works of Xenakis, Harrison, Rzewski,
Shapey, and Talujon. The group’s first compact disc, Hum, includes live performances of
works by Reich, Cage, Drummond and Talujon.
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Liam Teague + Robert Chappell + Panoramic
Thursday, 2:00 p.m. From concertos with orchestra, to chamber music, to jazz, to Panorama steel bands,
Trinidadian Liam Teague’s career goal is to expand the literature for steelpan and elevate
the recognition of this
important instrument.
Robert Chappell blends
his experience in
classical piano, jazz, and
world percussion into
compositions with an
understanding of the
commonalities of
musical expression. The
pair formed the Liam
Teague + Robert Chappell duo in 1998 and the Latin Caribbean jazz group Panoramic in 2002
with conguero/marimbista Orlando Cotto, drummer Phil Beal, saxophonist Doug Stone, and
bassist Josh Ramos. Notable performances by the group include the National Concert Hall
in Taiwan, the St. Lucia and Trinidad Jazz Festivals, and two PASICs. Teague and Chappell
direct steelpan and percussion studies, respectively at Northern Illinois University.
TRIO MANARI
Friday, 9:00 p.m.
From Northern Brazil, Trio MANARI consists of percussionists Márcio Jardim, Nazaco
Gomes, and “Paturi” Kleber Benigno. The group specializes in Amazonian music traditions
and has revitalized the
use of traditional
percussion in
contemporary
Amazonian music.
MANARI has arranged
percussion music for
many shows and
recordings featuring the
most prominent artists of
the Amazon. MANARI
played at PASIC in 2004,
and this year returns to
share the stage with the legendary Naná Vasconcelos. The group recently performed at the
Cayenne Jazz Festival and the 2007 PERCPAN Festival in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2007, the
ensemble released a DVD with Brazilian singer Fafá de Belém.
TUNKUL
Friday, 10:00 a.m.
TUNKUL is directed by David Lopez, head of percussion
studies at Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas in
Mexico. At PASIC 2007, TUNKUL will be presented as a
percussion duo formed by David Lopez and Ricardo
Montes. In 2005, TUNKUL emerged from a research
project on the sounds, instruments, and tradition of
music among the pre-Hispanic cultures in the Mexico
area known as Mesoamerica: Mayan, Aztec, Olmec, and
other. The PASIC concert-clinic “Pre-Hispanic
Instruments in Mesoamerica” covers the following:
origin and evolution of the instruments, manners of playing, social purposes, and use of
music. There is a strong focus on making, recording, and playing reproductions of the
original instruments. The audience will see first hand and in detail the instruments and
techniques used. BLAKE TYSON
Blake Tyson is currently on the faculty of the University
of Central Arkansas. He received his doctor of musical
arts degree from the Eastman School of Music. He
received the master of music degree from Kent State
University and a bachelor of music degree from the
University of Alabama. He has also studied derabucca
with Halim EI-Dabh, and has devoted intensive study to
EI-Dabh’s unique notational system for the instrument.
Tyson has given recitals as both a solo and chamber
artist throughout the United States. He has performed and taught in Ecuador as a guest of
the National Conservatory and performed in Egypt at the Ministry of Culture in Cairo and as
a soloist with the Orchestra de Biblioteca Alexandrina in Alexandria. He recently traveled to
South Africa for a master class and performance in Johannesburg and to China for
performances at the Beijing Central Conservatory. He has performed as a percussionist
with many orchestras throughout the United States, and is currently principal percussionist
with the Conway Symphony Orchestra. Tyson is also a composer, and has written numerous
compositions including Anubis, Cloud Forest, and Vertical River.
Shiniti Ueno
Shiniti Ueno started studying marimba and piano at age
three. He graduated from Kunitachi College of Music
Senior High School and Kunitachi College of Music in
Tokyo. He continued his percussion studies at the
Strasbourg NationaI Conservatory in France with Jean
Batigne. He also studied with Sylvio Gualda, Jean-Pierre
Drouet, and Christoph Caskel. Ueno served as
percussionist in the Orchestre PhiIharmonique de
Strasbourg from 1976 to 1978 and as principal
percussionist and timpanist of the Orchestre National du
Capitole de Toulouse from 1978 to 1984. With this orchestra, he was soloist on Andre
Jolivet’s Concerto pour Percussion et Orchestra and Paul Creston’s Concertino for Marimba
and Orchestra. In 1986 he performed Phu-Dong by N. T. Dao with the Brass Consort ‘86. In
ApriI 1996, Ueno gave the Japanese premiere of Concertino for Marimba by Niel de Ponte
with the Roots Wind Ensemble as well as the Japanese premiere of William Kraft’s Concerto
for Timpani and Orchestra with the Dresner PhiIharmonie in 1997. Ueno is active as a soloist
and is featured in recitals and in performances on Japan NHK Radio and France Musique.
His interest in instructing and supporting young music students led him to organize The
International Percussion Music Exchange Week in 1984, sponsored by French Ministry of
Cultural Affairs. He was also invited to work with the Saint-Céré Music Festival and French
International Percussion Academy as a clinician. Ueno also has served as an adjudicator
for such competitions as the 1999 International Vibraphone Competition in France. Currently
living in Tokyo, Ueno is on the faculty of Kunitachi College of Music. GERALD UNGER
Friday, 2:00 p.m.
Gerald Unger was associate principal percussion of the
Pittsburgh Symphony. A native of Perrysburg, Ohio,
Unger studied percussion at Indiana University, and was
principal timpanist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
from 1939 to 1944. He received a bachelor’s degree in
music performance and music education from the Ohio
State University, a master’s degree from the University of
Northern Colorado, and did postgraduate work at Indiana
University and the University of North Texas. Before
coming back to the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1975, he
served as principal percussionist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for six seasons. In 1979
he began teaching applied percussion and directing the percussion ensemble at Duquesne
University.
University of Kentucky Percussion Ensemble
Under the direction of James Campbell, the University of Kentucky Percussion Ensemble is
a three-time winner of the PAS “Call for Tapes” International Percussion Ensemble
Competition. They have
also performed at
several Percussive Arts
Society International
Conventions, the Lotus
World Music and Arts
Festival, the Bands of
America Percussion
Ensemble Festival, and
alongside international
guest artists such as
Steve Houghton, John
Bergamo, Michael Burritt, Bob Becker, William Cahn, Michael Spiro, Chalo Eduardo, Ney
Rosauro, Liam Teague, Dick Schory, Anders Åstrand, Richie Garcia, Dave Samuels, Danny
Gottlieb, Glenn Velez, Emil Richards, Joe Porcaro, Jerry Steinholtz and N. Scott Robinson. 90
Rick Walker
Saturday, 3:00 p.m.
Rick Walker is a multi-percussionist, drumset artist, and
studio musician. Now considered one of the founders of
the international live looping movement, Walker lives and
records out of Santa Cruz, California. He has toured
twelve countries as a “found sound/live looping” artist
over the past four years. Additionally, he gives clinics on
looping techniques and has organized an international
live looping festival. Walker was just featured in a sixpage article on live looping in the September issue of
Drum magazine and an article on his looping festival in
Guitar Player magazine.
DAVE WECKL
Friday, 11:00 a.m.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dave Weckl started playing
drums around the age of eight. At age sixteen, Weckl
began to work professionally as a drumset performer
with local pop and jazz groups. While performing in the
club scene in New York City with a band called Nite
Sprite, he received notice from established studio
musicians such as Steve Kahn, Michael Brecker, and
Peter Erskine. It was Erskine who recommended Weckl
for a performance with a group called French Toast. From
this group, bassist Anthony Jackson recommended him
for the prestigious Simon and Garfunkel reunion tour in 1983. It wasn’t long before Weckl
worked regularly recording and performing with such artists as George Benson, Peabo
Bryson, Diana Ross and Robert Plant. In 1985, Michael Brecker suggested to Chick Corea
that he hire Weckl for his new Elektric Band. Weckl then began a seven-year relationship
with both the Elektric and Akoustic Bands. As a solo artist, he has recorded and produced
nine recordings including GRP/MCA solo releases Masterplan, Heads Up, and Hardwired. In
1998, Weckl realized his goal of forming a world-touring band. To date, the Dave Weckl
Band has released five studio records including: Rhythm Of The Soul, Synergy, Transition,
Perpetual Motion, and Multiplicity. When not on the road touring, Weckl keeps busy with
session and production work at his home studio in Los Angeles. He also accepts a limited
number of private students and offers classes through the Virtual Drummer School.
Jack West and Lalo
The duo of eight-string acoustic guitarist Jack West and vibraphonist Lalo is comprised of
two extraordinary musicians, both of whom are known for their innovative approaches to
their respective
instruments. A long-time
collaborator of legendary
producer Lee Townsend,
West has performed his
music with a “who’s
who” of West Coast jazz
musicians including
drummer Scott
Amendola, cellist Mark
Summer, and violinist
Jenny Scheinman. Lalo
has garnered praise as a
recording artist, performer, and educator. Together, Jack West and Lalo share a rare
musical connection. As an ensemble, they create highly rhythmic, energetic music, which
perfectly balances simple fun and virtuosity. Jan Williams
Jan Williams is a percussion soloist and conductor.
Composers who have written works especially for him
include Lukas Foss, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Joel
Chadabe, Morton Feldman, Orlando Garcia, Gustavo
Matamoros, Luis de Pablo, Frederic Rzewski, Nils
Vigeland and lannis Xenakis. He has toured extensively
throuxghout the United States, Europe, New Zealand,
and Australia and has recorded for Columbia, Vox/
Turnabout, Desto, Lovely Music, Spectrum, Wergo, DGG,
Percussive arts society 2008 International
PERCUSSION Ensemble Competition
PURPOSE: To encourage, promote and reward high quality percussion education, and musical excellence among high school
and collegiate percussion ensembles by selecting the most qualified groups to appear each year at PASIC.
AWARDS: Three high school and three collegiate percussion ensembles will be invited to perform at PASIC 2008 (November 5–8)
in Austin, Texas. Each ensemble will be featured in a 50-minute (maximum) Showcase Concert.
ELIGIBILITY: Ensemble Directors and/or Professional Soloists are not allowed to participate as performers on the recording. All
ensemble members (excluding non-percussionists e.g. pianists) must be members of PAS. All college/university students must
be enrolled in the school of the ensemble in which they are performing. A student may not participate in a percussion ensemble
from more than one school. This will be verified when application materials are received. Ensembles selected to perform at PASIC are not eligible to apply again for three years (resting out 2 PASICs).
PROCEDURES: 1. Send six identical unmarked CDs to PAS, 32 E. Washington, Suite 1400, Indianapolis, IN 46204-3516.
Recordings must be of live concerts. Live is defined as a formal public performance in front of an audience. Studio recordings, session recordings, or edited recordings of any kind will be disqualified. CDs may not exceed 30 minutes in length. Only
recordings made since January 2007 are eligible. Include official concert program of the performances from which the recording was taken for verification of above requirements. All compositions and/or movements must be performed in their entirety.
Recordings become property of PAS and will not be returned. 2. Recordings will be numbered to insure anonymity and will then
be evaluated by a panel of five judges. 3. Invited groups are expected to assume all financial commitments (room, board, travel),
organizational responsibilities, and to furnish their own equipment. One piano will be provided (if needed) as well as an adequate
number of music stands and chairs. PAS will provide an announcement microphone. Additional audio requirements are the responsibility of the performing ensemble. 4. Ensembles will be notified of the results in June.
percussive arts society 2008 international percussion ensemble competition
category:
❑ High School
❑ College/University
School Name _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ensemble’s Name (if different from above) ________________________________________________________________________________
Director’s Name_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Address ________________________________________________ City _______________________________________________________ State/Province _____________________________ Zip/Postal Code ____________________________ Country _______________________
Phone Number (include area code) ______________________________________________________________________________________ Director‘s E-mail ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
On a separate page list director and ensemble members and their PAS Membership Numbers. Indicate the number of students returning next
Fall. (Please note: without ensemble membership names and numbers your application cannot be processed).
On a separate page titled “Track Listing” provide the following information:
Track # Composition title or movement, and composer
Do not include names of performers or soloists, the school name, or other identifying marks.
Please include a $35 U.S. Contest Application Fee; make checks payable to Percussive Arts Society.
I hereby certify that I have read the requirements and regulations stated above and understand that failure to abide by these regulations will
result in the disqualification of our ensemble.
Signature of Ensemble Director _________________________________________________________________________________________
deadline is april 15, 2008
All materials (application Fee, application form, student and director membership numbers, track listing, 6 recordings, concert programs) must be received by April 15, 2008
The late great session drummer Larrie Londin was
a man who liked to share with others. That sharing
continues through the PAS/SABIAN Larrie Londin
Memorial Scholarship. Created to support promising
young drummers with their drumset studies the
2008 scholarship award total of $3,000* awaits
selected applicants, who will also receive a one-year
membership to the Percussive Arts Society.
* $2,000 for drummers 18-24; $1,000 for drummers 17 and under.
MANADATORY REQUIREMENTS
A) Complete and submit the aplication below.
B) Include a 3-minute (maximum) DVD on which
you demonstrate your ability to perform different
drumming styles. (print your name on the disc).
C) Students aged 18-24 must be enrolled in, or apply
funds to an accredited, structured music
education program.
OPTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
A) 100 -200 word essay on why you feel you
qualify for a scholarship (financial need is
not a consideration) and how the money
would be used (college, summer camp,
private teacher, etc.)
B) A supporting letter of recommendation
verifying age and school attendance.
Orion, Hat-Art, OO, New World, Deep Listening, EMF and Mode Records. He served as coartistic director of the North American New Music Festival, with Yvar Mikhashoff, from 1985
to 1991. He is professor emeritus at the University at Buffalo, where he directed the
percussion program for thirty years and served as chair of the music department from 1980
to 1984. He is Trustee of the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music.
ERIC J. WILLIE
Eric J. Willie currently serves as assistant professor of
percussion at Tennessee Technological University in
Cookeville, Tennessee. At Tennessee Tech, Willie directs
the classical and pop percussion ensembles, arranges
for the Tennessee Tech Drumline, and teaches
undergraduate and graduate applied percussion studies.
Willie earned his bachelor’s degree from Austin Peay
State University and his master’s degree from the
University of Kentucky. Currently, he is pursuing a
doctoral degree at the University of North Texas. Willie also serves as vice president of the
Tennessee Chapter of PAS and percussion caption head for the Southwind Drum and Bugle
Corps. He has performed as an extra percussionist with the Nashville Symphony, the
Bowling Green Symphony, and the Lexington Philharmonic. As a member of the University
of North Texas Wind Symphony, he recorded alongside marimba virtuosos Keiko Abe and
Mark Ford as well as recording with his contemporary percussion ensemble, the Bain
Percussion Group. In addition, he has appeared at the World Saxophone Congress, the
Bands of American National Percussion Festival, and at the 2003 Percussive Arts Society
International Convention. He has directed the percussion programs at the University of
Wisconsin–Whitewater and Austin College. Additionally, Willie served as a percussion
specialist for the Sherman, Texas Independent School District and Newman Smith High
School in Carrollton, Texas. Willie has published articles in The Instrumentalist and
Percussive Notes. Peter Stafford Wilson
Peter Stafford Wilson returns for his fifteenth season as
Music Director of the Westerville Symphony at Otterbein
College. A Westerville resident, Maestro Wilson leads
the Orchestra’s three subscription concerts in addition to
the ever popular Independence Day Concert, Sounds of
Summer Pops, and the Orchestra’s annual Young Peoples
Concerts. Wilson has been actively involved in the
Westerville Symphonys collaboration with the
Westerville Public Library, Tunes-n-Tales, a unique
collaboration that was featured at the 1996 meeting of
the Ohio Library Conference. Wilson, a member of the adjunct faculty at Otterbein College
also regularly conducts annual productions of the Otterbein Opera Theater, including
critically acclaimed productions of Mozarts Marriage of Figaro, Kurt Weills Threepenny
Opera, and Glucks Orfeio.
JOHN WITTMANN
Saturday, 11:00 a.m. John Wittmann is the education department manager for
the band and orchestral division of Yamaha Corporation
of America. He is responsible for organizing the
educational support for over 600 woodwind, brass, string,
and percussion artists as well as running the educational
programs such as Sounds of Summer and Yamaha Young
Performing Artists. He has also served as manager of the
percussion department as well as manager of “Music In
Education,” a computer based general music curriculum
product. Wittmann also produced the Living Legends Video Series for Yamaha. He holds a
bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in music education with concentrations in
conducting, percussion and composition. Wittmann has toured extensively throughout the
United States and abroad and has given hundreds of drumset clinics. He remains an active
performer and clinician. Currently, he is the drummer for the Jennie DeVoe Band. Previous
to his duties at Yamaha, Wittmann taught percussion and jazz at Lawrence Central High
School in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dave Wonsey Friday, 9:30 p.m.
Dave Wonsey has been facilitating drum circles for over ten years. These events, ranging
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from 10 to 250 people, take place at a variety of venues
including hospitals, churches, community and senior
centers, public and private schools, colleges,
universities, summer camps, and elder hostels. For three
years now, Wonsey hosts a monthly drum circle at New
Milford Hospital for cancer survivors and their
caregivers. He is an adjunct professor, teaching music at
Norwalk Community College and in two private schools
in Connecticut. In addition, Wonsey is timpanist and
principal percussionist with the Ridgefield Symphony
Orchestra. He is also a Scottish snare drumming world
champion, having studied with Alex Duthart. Wonsey graduated from the Manhattan School
of Music, where he returns regularly to teach master classes.
CRAIG WOODSON
Thursday, 9:30 p.m.
Dr. Craig Woodson holds a doctoral degree in music from
University of California–Los Angeles with a specialization
in world percussion and ethnomusicology. He has
performed in movies, on television, on many recordings,
and presented educational concerts with major
orchestras and ensembles. He has facilitated drum
circles for many years. With a focus on instrument
making and world percussion, he began the company
Ethnomusic, Inc. in 1974. These interests took him to
Ghana, West Africa for three years as an invited researcher. In the mid-1980s, he began
school presentations on world music and African drumming. His recent publication, Roots
of Rhythm, is a free online K-8 curriculum with two CDs that introduces fifteen world
percussion instruments. In 2005 and 2006, Woodson received grants from the International
Music Products Association (NAMM) to teach this curriculum.
Darin “Dutch” Workman
Friday, 9:00 a.m.
Dr. Darin “Dutch” Workman is a doctor of chiropractic
medicine practicing in Cedar City, Utah. He has worked
with drumming and performing related injuries since
1988. He has also received his bachelor of human biology
degree, and is a certified chiropractic sports
practitioner. As a drummer/percussionist of over thirty
years, he continues to be active in performing and
teaching. He constantly speaks with drummers
worldwide and counsels them on healing and preventing
injuries. He treats numerous professional and amateur drummers and percussionists.
Workman has authored injury and prevention articles and presented workshops for the
drummer/percussionist over the years, and is an active clinician at educational institutions
from elementary to major university level. He is currently publishing the first book on the
treatment and prevention of drum/percussion related injuries, and has begun work on a
book on drumming and ergonomics. Workman has been chair of the PAS Health and
Wellness Committee since 1997, coordinating health related clinics and workshops at each
PASIC and working as an associate editor over drumming and health for Percussive Notes.
He has been a member of the Performing Arts Medical Association (PAMA) since 1996
representing drummers to the healing arts; and as such was asked to be the representative
for PAS and drummers throughout the world in working with other instrumental and health
experts to develop health education materials specifically for NASM music school students.
NICK WOUD
Thursday, 1:00 p.m.
Nick Woud studied timpani and percussion at the
Amsterdam Conservatory of Music with Jan Labordus
and Jan Pustjens, both of the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra. At the age of twenty-two, he joined the
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra first as
percussionist and then in 1984 as principal timpanist. In
May 2002, Woud joined the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra, sharing timpanist duties with Marinus Komst.
Since 1975, he has been interested in and played
baroque timpani in many distinguished international baroque orchestras. For the last fifteen
years, he has been senior tutor for timpani in the percussion department of the Amsterdam
Conservatory of Music. He has published three timpani method books and composed
several works for brass instruments in various settings with timpani and percussion. artists and clinicians
PAS International PASIC Scholarship Grant
The purpose of the “PAS International PASIC Scholarship Grant” is to provide financial assistance to a student living
outside the United States of America to attend the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) to be
held in Austin, Texas on November 5–8, 2008.
The grant shall consist of:
1. Financial assistance of up ot $1,500 (US dollars) 2. One PASIC registration
3. One Hall of Fame banquet ticket
4. One year additional membership to PAS
5. PASIC T-shirt
Applicants must provide the following:
• A one-page bio or resume stating their percussion education, training, experience, and future objectives.
• Proof of full-time student status, including their latest transcript of grades.
• Student must be 18 years of age or older.
• A written statement of 500 words or less in English on “What the PAS International PASIC Scholarship Grant would mean to me.”
• One letter of recommendation from a percussion-related teacher, conductor, or colleague.
All applicants must be current members of PAS. It is not required the applicant speak and understand English, however it is recommended. A member of the International Committee will serve as a guide/mentor for the student during
PASIC.
The Application form is available online at www.pas.org.
Deadline for applications is March 15, 2008.
The winner will be notified in May of 2008.
The Percussive Arts Society International PASIC Scholarship Grant recipient shall be responsible for obtaining whatever passport, visa or permits from their home country and the United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration
Services (BCIS) are necessary to allow attendance to the Percussive Arts Society International Convention.
Percussive Arts Society shall make reservations for and pay for a round trip airfare from a city chosen by PAS to the
city that is hosting PASIC, and a hotel room for the time the recipient is in attendance at PASIC not to exceed the sum
of $1,500.00. Recipient is required to have a VISA, Master Card or other credit card acceptable to the hotel to be used
to guarantee payment of incidental charges made to the hotel room other than the room charge and applicable taxes
to be paid by Percussive Arts Society. PAS is not responsible for any changes that the airline may make to recipient’s
itinerary.
Recipient shall be responsible for all travel to and from the airport at both the departure city and the city hosting
the convention. Also, recipient shall be responsible for all meals and incidental expenses incurred in attending the
convention. The difference between the actual costs of the airline ticket and hotel accommodations plus applicable
taxes and $1,500.00 will be paid to recipient at the convention to offset expenses incurred while attending the convention. Percussive Arts Society specifically disclaims any responsibility or liability to recipient for anything other
than what it is agreeing to provide as part of the scholarship grant.
PAS/Remo, Inc.
Fred Hoey
Memorial Scholarship
Fred Hoey (1920–1994)
Fred Hoey’s star t in the music industr y
came at an early age upon winning the 1936
National Rudimental Drummer Competition.
His illustrious career in the field of music
as an author, clinician, and authority in
the world of percussion af forded him
many opportunities. In the mid 70s, Fred
Hoey launched the CB 700 line of drums
and percussion. This unique line was
designed by Hoey to service the educational
percussion market in a comprehensive way.
As Vice President of Sales for C. Bruno in the early 1980s, Hoey created the Gibraltar brand name
of drum hardware and initiated its first designs. The mid 80s brought Hoey to oversee the Remo,
Inc. San Antonio Distribution Center where he participated in product design, development, and
sales direction. Throughout his career, Fred Hoey remained active as a prominent Southwestern
performing percussionist. He also wrote several drum methods still in distribution by Mel Bay
Publications. He was a charter member of the Percussive Arts Society and an educator whose
influence on percussionists continues with the PAS Fred Hoey Memorial Scholarship.
Eligibility: The scholarship is open to any incoming college freshman during the 2008–2009 academic year enrolled in the
School of Music at an accredited college or university. Applicant must be a current member of the Percussive Arts Society.
Application Materials: All applicants must submit a complete application and a DVD. The DVD should demonstrate the applicant’s ability on at least two different percussion instruments and not exceed ten minutes in length. In addition to the required
DVD, a CD of the audition may be submitted.
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MIKA YOSHIDA
Thursday, 2:00 p.m.
Currently living in Japan, Mika Yoshida has devoted
herself to marimba performance and musical studies
under the strong influence of NEXUS. She studied with
Russell Hartenberger at the University of Toronto and
graduated with an advanced certificate in performance.
Yoshida furthered her studies with John Wyre, whom she
considers a major influence and inspiration. She has
presented solo recitals in such countries as the United
States, Japan, Hungary, and Canada. She has
collaborated with such artists as Richard Stoltzman,
Eddie Gomez, Thomas Stacy, and Stomu Yamashita. Yoshida has recorded two compact
discs Mitsue (I998) and Marimba Phase (2003). Steve Reich’s CD Triple Quartet includes her
arrangement and performance of “Tokyo Nermont Counterpoint.” She premiered John
Wyre’s Moonlight for marimba and orchestra with the Kyushu Symphony, and Bill Douglas’s
marimba concerto with the Kumamoto Symphony Orchestra. She also serves as the artistic
director of Island Magic, the Amakusa International Art and Music Festival.
Yumbambe (YOOM BOMB BAY) Thursday, 10:00 p.m.
Yumbambé is a dynamic ensemble featuring the new hits and classics of Celia Cruz, La
India, Hector Lavoe, Tito Puente, Oscar de Leon, Pochi y su Coco Band, Ponchi y Alexandra,
Ochesta de la Luz, Ray
Baretto, Larry Harlow,
and originals from R.
Scott Gold. Yumbambé
makes its home every
Wednesday at BoMA,
the Bar of Modern Art, in
Columbus, Ohio.
Vocalists Maria Duque,
Eddie Estremera, and
Sophia Tolliver are
backed by the powerful
horns and dynamic rhythm section. Yumbambé performs annually for the festivals in central
Ohio and participates in Artists-In-Schools, a part of the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s
Community Arts Education Program. In addition to many corporate and academic clients,
Yumbambé has performed for the N.A.S.A.A., Percussive Arts Society International
Convention, Ohio Arts Presenter’s Network, and Mid-Ohio Valley Emmy Awards. Zumbumba
Zumbumba is a Tucson-based percussion ensemble committed to integrating authentic
world music styles and instruments, emphasizing West Africa, with traditional Western
percussion. The group’s
musical strength lies in
the diversity of its
members. Meeting as
graduate students at the
University of Arizona, the
three founding members,
Aaron Emery, Michael
Sammons, and Michael
Vercelli formed
Zumbumba to blend their
individual talents rooted
in classical percussion, jazz, and world music. Focusing on musical compositions ranging
from contemporary Western composers to traditional repertoire of African, Caribbean, and
South American origin, Zumbumba is dedicated to the perpetuation of the percussive arts
as well as the commissioning of new works. Zumbumba currently keeps an active
performing schedule, primarily through educational outreach programs in Arizona’s public
schools. Individually, Zumbumba’s members have given performances and workshops
throughout the Southwest, Florida, and New England and have studied internationally in
Ghana, Trinidad, Cuba, and Bali. Aaron Emery, originally from Bangor, Maine, has been a performing artist for the last ten
years. Emery earned his master’s degree in percussion performance from the University of
Arizona in 2006. He received a bachelor’s degree in percussion performance from
Northwestern University in 2001. Emery has performed in a wide array of musical styles with
artists such as blues diva Nikki Armstrong, Los Angeles studio bassist Brian Bromberg, and
jazz legend Bud Shank. He appeared at PASIC in 2003 with Crosstalk, the University of
Arizona Electronic Percussion Ensemble, and in 2005 as a guest performer at the Crested
Butte Music Festival in Crested Butte, Colorado.
Michael Sammons is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Arizona.
He earned his master’s degree from the University of Arizona in 2005 and a bachelor’s
degree from the University of Florida in 2002. His travels abroad include Trinidad and Ghana,
researching the traditional music and dance of these cultures. Sammons is active as a
timpanist, performing and giving master classes in Florida and Arizona. His professional
orchestral experiences include: Tucson Symphony, Sierra Vista Orchestra, Catalina
Chamber Orchestra, Gainesville Symphony and Central Florida Symphony. In 2004, Sammons
participated in the Crested Butte Summer Music Festival in Crested Butte, Colorado as a
guest performer and appeared as a guest soloist for the Music Educators National
Convention, Southern Division Conference in January of 2005. He is an active member of the
PAS Collegiate Committee and is published in the June 2006 issue of Percussive Notes.
Sammons recently presented a session entitled “New Music for Steel Band” at PASIC 2006
in Austin, Texas. Michael Vercelli is a recently appointed adjunct professor of music at the University of
Arizona, where he is the founder and director of the World Music Gang focusing on the
repertoire of other cultures and taught entirely through oral tradition. He also teaches
applied percussion, and is an accompanist in the UA School of Dance. He holds a doctor of
musical arts degree in percussion performance with a minor in ethnomusicology from the
University of Arizona. While well versed in the classical percussion repertoire, Vercelli’s
specialty lies in non-Western instruments. He has studied the traditional music of other
countries and done fieldwork in Bali, Cuba, Brazil, and primarily, Ghana. Vercelli has
received many awards for both his performance and study of indigenous music such as
being named a Fulbright Alternate and recipient of numerous grants including the
prestigious Northern Trust Piper Enrichment Scholarship, which enabled him to spend
seven months in West Africa researching his dissertation project on Ghanaian xylophone.
Vercelli was a contributing author to the world percussion chapter in the third edition of
Gary Cook’s Teaching Percussion. He is a participating member in the Society for
Ethnomusicology and on the PAS World Percussion Committee.
PAS Hudson Music
Drumset Scholarship
Hudson Music, founded in 1998,
is a leading force in the development
of multimedia educational products
for musicians. The PAS Hudson
Music Drumset Scholarship is
funded through proceeds from sales of Hudson Music’s “Classic Jazz”
DVD series. The founding of this collegiate scholarship is a continuation of
Hudson’s commitment to music education and to the support of student
drummers.
Eligibility: The scholarship is open to any full time student registered in an accredited college or university
school of music during the 2008–2009 academic year. Applicant must be a current member of the Percussive
Arts Society.
Application Materials: All applicants must submit a completed application, a letter of recommendation
verifying age and school attendance, and a DVD.
Criteria:
• The DVD should be no longer than ten minutes in length. Additional time will not be considered and may
negatively affect evaluation of the application.
• The selection(s) within the DVD should represent live performance segments and not be edited.
• The applicant must be visible throughout the submitted performance(s).
• The DVD must be an ensemble performance.
• The performance may be in any musical style.
• Applicants will be judged on musicality, ability to contribute to the group performance and overall quality of tempo, time, style and musical interaction.
• The ability of the applicant to perform on additional percussion or other instruments is not a consideration for this scholarship.
• Soloing is not required and any submission with only solo performance will not be considered.
2008 Percussive Arts Society
35th Annual Percussion Composition Contest
Purpose: The Percussive Arts Society sponsors an annual competition to encourage and
reward those who create music for percussion instruments and to increase the number of
quality compositions written for percussion.
2008 CATEGORIES
Category I: Soloist with Percussion Ensemble (ensemble is 4-8 players)
First Place: $1500.00 Second Place: $500.00 Third Place: $250.00
Category II: Duet for Voice and Vibraphone or Voice and Marimba
First Place: $1500.00 Second Place: $500.00 Third Place: $250.00
First, second and third place winners in each category are allowed to encourage presenters
to perform their winning work at a future Percussive Arts Society International Convention
or other PAS sponsored event. PAS reserves the right to not designate a winner if the judges
determine that no composition is worthy of the award(s).
Eligibility and Procedures: • Previously commissioned or published (printed, audio or video) works may not be entered.
• Time limit for each category is 6–12 minutes. Total duration of piece should be stated on
manuscript. Compositions must be original (no transcriptions or arrangements).
• Composer should send six complete copies of the score. If not computer generated, neat
manuscript is required. Composer’s name cannot appear on any of the score pages. Six CDs
(preferred) or cassette tapes may be submitted in addition to scores but are not required. All
entry materials become property of PAS.
• The difficulty of the composition is left to the discretion of the composer, however, high
artistic goals should be coupled with realistic demands to allow for performance at the
university level. Instrument demands should also be limited to those commonly found at the
university level.
Application Fee: $35 per composition (non-refundable) should be enclosed with each entry. Make checks payable to the Percussive Arts Society.
Deadline: All materials (application fee, application form and manuscripts) must be received in the PAS office no later than April 15, 2008.
For further information and details, contact PAS, 32 E. Washington, Suite 1400
Indianapolis, IN 46204-3516, (317) 974-4488; E-mail: percarts@pas.org
2008 Percussive Arts Society 35th Annual Percussion Composition Contest
Name of Composition ______________________________________________________
Composer’s Name __________________________________________________________
Address __________________________________________________________________
City _________________________ State _________________ Zip __________________
Telephone Number (include area code) ____________________________________________
Fax Number _______________________ E-mail Address ______________________________
Entry Agreement
My signature below affirms my acceptance of the procedures and policies of the
Percussive Arts Society Percussion Composition Contest. I further warrant that
the enclosed composition is original and has not been previously commissioned or
published in any format. I understand that failure to adhere to the contest procedures,
policies and this agreement will constitute withdrawal of any prize I might be awarded.
Signature of Composer ______________________________________ Date _________
percussive arts society history
D
uring the late 1950s, it became obvious to many professional
percussionists and music educators that a national percussion
organization dedicated to education was needed. This need was
discussed by leading percussion performers and music educators
whenever they had the opportunity to gather at regional or national
music conventions, such as MENC or the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic held each December at Chicago’s Sherman House. During
the spring of 1960, Robert Winslow, a professional percussionist and
North Hollywood band director who served as an educational advisor
to Remo Belli, wrote to leading percussion educators requesting their
assistance in establishing such an organization. Among the stated
goals of the organization contained in these letters were: “to bring up
to date the present standards in our solo and ensemble contests,” “to
stimulate a greater interest in percussion performance and teaching,”
and “to promote better teaching of percussion instruments.”
While at the 1960 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, Remo Belli,
an exhibitor at the convention, invited a group of interested percussionists to dinner at the hotel’s restaurant to discuss the formation of
the organization, and at which time he was given a mandate to name
the organization. In January of 1961 during the SW-MENC in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a meeting was held at the Sundowner Hotel
where Jim Sewrey suggested the name “Percussive Arts Society”
to Remo Belli. Others present at this meeting, in addition to Mr. Belli
and Mr. Sewrey, were Fred Hoey, Frank Arsenault, and George Frock.
Pictured above are several of the fourteen founding members of the Society. (left
to right, near side of table) Remo Belli, Jack McKenzie, Don Canedy, Mervin Britton, (left to right, far side of table) Hugh Soebbing, Vern Reamer and Sid Lutz, and
Kenneth Leisen.
Following this meeting, Mr. Winslow sent a letter proclaiming:
“We are underway. The Percussive Arts Society is open for business,” and in September 1961, the Society sent its first publication,
Percussive Arts Society Bulletin, printed on a mimeograph machine
donated by Mr. Belli, to the membership. The fourteen originating
members listed in the first Percussive
Arts Society Bulletin were: Remo Belli,
Warren Benson, Mervin Britton, Robert
Buggert, Don Canedy, Rey Longyear,
Charles Lutz, Jack McKenzie, James
L. Moore, Verne Reimer, Jim Salmon,
Hugh W. Soebbing, Charles Spohn, and
Robert Winslow.
University. In April of 1963, Mr. Canedy, with the advice of a distinguished
editorial board and an able group of
contributing editors, published the
new PAS journal, Percussionist (in
later years called Percussive Notes
Research Edition) in its familiar booklet form. Mr. Canedy served as de
facto president through 1964, when,
at the December Percussive Arts Society meeting in Chicago, a constitution was adopted and regular officers
were elected. Gordon Peters became
the first President of PAS; Jack McKenzie took the position of First Vice1965 PAS Logo
President and Mr. Canedy continued
as Executive Secretary. Also elected were a Board of Directors and
an Editorial Board. With this solid structure, the Society became increasingly influential, expanding its committee activities to address
important percussion issues and making policy decisions that would
result in important contributions to all areas of percussion.
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n important expansion occurred in 1967 when James L. Moore’s
already successful Percussive Notes became an official PAS publication. Another milestone was achieved in 1969 when the Society
was incorporated in Indiana as the Percussive Arts Society, Incorporated, a status it maintained until 1985 when it was reincorporated
under the laws of Illinois.
Beginning in 1971, performances and clinics called “Days of
Percussion” were held in conjunction with the yearly business meetings. In 1974, the first Percussive Arts Society National Conference
(PASNC) was held in Anaheim and at California State University
at Northridge. It was hosted by Lloyd McCausland and Joel Leach
(CSU/Northridge) and the PAS California Chapter, David Levine,
chapter president. The PASNC evolved into the Percussive Arts Society International Convention that we know today as PASIC. The first
PASIC was held in 1976 at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, and was hosted by John Beck, the Eastman School and the
New York State Chapter (see next page).
I
t is important to note two significant awards presented annually by
the Society. First, since 1972, PAS has inducted some of the most
important people in percussion into its Hall of Fame. Secondly, since
A
fter three Bulletins, a determination was made to transfer the administrative and publication duties of
the Society to Professor Donald Canedy, who was the percussion instructor
and band director at Southern Illinois
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1963 PAS Logo
The first Hall of Fame awards were presented December 16, 1972. Three of the
five recipients are pictured here. Roy Knapp, Haskell Harr, William F. Ludwig, Sr.
They are shown holding their Hall of Fame awards which they received that day.
1974, the PAS Composition Contest has encouraged the production
of hundreds of new works, many of which have become part of the
standard percussion repertoire. Thus, the Percussive Arts Society,
which began in 1961 as a group of fourteen concerned percussion-
Year
City
ists, has grown to more than 9,000 members worldwide, with significant influence on percussion performance, education, composition,
publication and manufacturing.
Host
Location
Percussive Arts Society Percussion Day
1971 Chicago, Illinois Bob Tilles
Percussive Arts Society Day of Percussion
1972 Chicago, Illinois National PAS, Inc. and Illinois State Chapter College Inn and Sherman House Hotel
Lloyd McCausland/ Joel Leach
Thomas Siwe Royal Inn Hotel/
CSU/Northridge
Roosevelt University
DePaul University
Percussive Arts Society National Conference (PASNC)
1974 Anaheim, California/
Northridge, California 1975 Chicago, Illinois Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC)
1976
Rochester, New York
John Beck
Eastman School of Music
1977
Knoxville, Tennessee
Michael Combs
University of Tennessee
1978
Tempe, Arizona
Merv Britton
Arizona State University
1979
New York, New York
Morris Lang
Taft Hotel
1980
San Jose, California
Tony Cirone
Convention Center
1981
Indianapolis, Indiana
Paul Berns
Convention Center
1982
Dallas, Texas
Robert Schietroma
Loews Anatole Hotel
1983
Knoxville, Tennessee
Michael Combs
Convention Center
1984
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Michael Udow
University of Michigan
1985
Los Angeles, California
Jay Wanamaker
Sheraton Hotel
1986
Washington, D.C.
Randall Eyles
Convention Center and Kennedy Center
1987
St. Louis, Missouri
Norm Goldberg/Thomas Siwe
Adam’s Mark Hotel
1988
San Antonio, Texas
Genaro Gonzalez
Henry Gonzalez Convention Center
1989
Nashville, Tennessee
Bill Wiggins
Stouffer Hotel/Convention Center
1990 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dean Witten
Adams Hotel
1991
Anaheim, California
Dave Black
Disneyland Hotel
1992
New Orleans, Louisiana
Jim Atwood
Hyatt Regency Hotel
1993
Columbus, Ohio
Robert Breithaupt
1994
Atlanta, Georgia
Tony McCutchen
Peachtree Plaza Hotel
1995
Phoenix, Arizona
J.B. Smith
Phoenix Civic Plaza
1996
Bill Wiggins
Renaissance Hotel/Convention Center
1997
Anaheim, California
Theresa Dimond
Disneyland Hotel
1998
Orlando, Florida
Beth Radock Gottlieb
Orange County Convention Center
1999
Columbus, Ohio
Jim Rupp
2000
Dallas, Texas
Michael Varner
Hyatt Regency Dallas
2001
George Barrett
Nashville Convention Center & Renaissance Nashville Hotel
2002
Columbus, Ohio
Susan Powell
2003
Louisville, Kentucky
Rick Mattingly
Kentucky International Convention Center
2004
George Barrett
Nashville Convention Center & Renaissance Nashville Hotel
2005
Columbus, Ohio
2006
Austin, Texas
Austin Convention Center
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percussive arts society hall of fame
* Will be inducted at the Friday evening Hall of Fame Banquet
Keiko Abe, 1993
Billy Gladstone, 1978
Steve Reich *
Alan Abel, 1998
Morris Goldenberg, 1974
Buddy Rich, 1986
Henry Adler, 1988
Saul Goodman, 1972
Emil Richards, 1994
Frank Arsenault, 1975
George Hamilton Green, 1983
Max Roach, 1982
Elden C. “Buster” Bailey, 1996
Lionel Hampton, 1984
James Salmon, 1974
John Beck, 1999
Haskell Harr, 1972
Fred Sanford, 2000
Bob Becker/NEXUS, 1999
Lou Harrison, 1985
Ed Shaughnessy, 2004
Remo Belli, 1986
Russell Hartenberger/NEXUS, 1999
Murray Spivack, 1991
Louis Bellson, 1978
Roy Haynes, 1998
Ringo Starr, 2002
Warren Benson, 2003
Sammy Herman, 1994
Leigh Howard Stevens, 2006
James Blades, 1975
Fred D. Hinger, 1986
George L. Stone, 1997
Michael Bookspan, 2003
Richard Hochrainer, 1979
William Street, 1976
Carroll Bratman, 1984
Milt Jackson, 1996
Ed Thigpen, 2002
Harry Breuer, 1980
Elvin Jones, 1991
Edgar Varèse, 1980
Gary Burton, 1988
Jo Jones, 1990
William “Chick” Webb, 1985
John Cage, 1982
Roy Knapp, 1972
Charley Wilcoxon, 1981
William Cahn/NEXUS, 1999
William Kraft, 1990
Tony Williams, 1997
Joe Calato, 2001
Gene Krupa, 1974
John Wyre/NEXUS, 1999
Jim Chapin, 1995
Morris “Arnie” Lang, 2000
Armand Zildjian, 1994
Vida Chenoweth, 1994
Alexander Lepak, 1997
Avedis Zildjian, 1979
Bobby Christian, 1989
Mel Lewis, 2001
Robert Zildjian, 2000
Anthony Cirone *
Maurice Lishon, 1989
Billy Cobham, 2006
William F. Ludwig II, 1993
Martin Cohen, 2006
William F. Ludwig, Sr., 1972
Michael Colgrass, 1987
Shelly Manne, 1997
Alan Dawson, 1996
Ellie Mannette, 2003
Warren “Baby” Dodds *
Joe Morello, 1993
John Calhoun Clair Musser, 1975
(J.C.) Deagan, 1999
John Noonan, 1972
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(year specifies date of induction)
Cloyd Duff, 1977
Red Norvo, 1992
Robin Engelman/NEXUS, 1999
Babatunde Olatunji, 2001
Sandy Feldstein, 2005
Charles Owen, 1981
Siegfried Fink, 2003
Harry Partch, 1974
Vic Firth, 1995
Al Payson, 2001
Alfred Friese, 1978
Gordon B. Peters, 2004
George Gaber, 1995
John S. Pratt, 2002
Steve Gadd, 2005
Paul Price, 1975
Terry Gibbs, 2000
Tito Puente, 2001
outstanding
pas supporter award
1997 1998
1999 2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Steve Houghton
Ed Shaughnessy
Tzong-Ching Ju
Gregg Bissonette
Peter Erskine
Zoro
James Sewrey
Ludwig Albert
Jim Coffin
David Eyler
pas
president’s industry award
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Sandy Feldstein
Lloyd McCausland
Robert Zildjian
Lennie DiMuzio
Jim Catalano
Jim Coffin
Steve Ettleson
Paul Siegel
Rob Wallis
Bill Crowden
Martin Cohen
Carol Calato
Pat Brown
Gilberto Serna
outstanding
pas service award
1993
1994
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Ed Soph
Norman Weinberg
Barry Zimmerman
Jerry Steinholtz
James Lambert
Karen Hunt
Doug Wolf
Rebecca Kite
Larry Snider
Ian Turnbull
John H. Beck
Jim Rupp
Lynn Glassock
Wilber England
Darin Workman
educator lifetime
achievement award
2002
2002
2002
2002
2003
2003
2004
2004
2005
2005
2006
Gary Chaffee
Siegfried Fink
William Schinstine
Tom Siwe
Harold Jones
James Petercsak
Gary Olmstead
Larry Vanlandingham
James Moore
Dong-Wook Park
Robert Schietroma
pas outstanding
chapter president award
1991
1992
1993
1994 1995
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
2001
2002
2002
2003
2004
2004
2005
2006
Ian Turnbull (Ontario)
Lauren Vogel Weiss (Texas)
Kristen Shiner McGuire
(New York)
Keith Aleo (Florida)
Mark Dorr (Iowa)
Nigel Shipway
(United Kingdom)
Marshall Maley (Virginia)
Peter O’Gorman (Minnesota)
Eric Hollenbeck (Alabama)
Jim Royle (Connecticut)
Frederic Macarez (France)
Fernando Hashimoto (Brazil)
Lauren Vogel Weiss (Texas)
Blair Helsing (California)
Anders Astrand (Sweden)
Christopher Moore (Alabama)
Nicholas Ormrod (UK)
Cary Dachytl (Ohio)
fred sanford award
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
University of North Texas
Morehead State University
Marcus High School
East Tennessee State University
Georgetown High School
PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY HALL OF FAME nominations
The Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame was established in 1972 and recognizes the contributions of the most highly regarded professional leaders in percussion performance, education, research, scholarship, administration, composition and the industry.
Nominees must have demonstrated the highest ideals and professional integrity to their profession. They must have brought about significant events, substantive improvements in the world of percussion, or contributed to the betterment of the profession through exemplary services or acts.
A nominee must have a record of sustained (though not necessarily continuous) contributions to the field and be supportive of the philosophy and objectives of the Percussive Arts Society. Posthumous nominees may be included.
Those who submit nominations must provide the following biographical data: date of birth; current address of the nominee or, if deceased, name and address of a surviving family member; a brief description of the nominee’s achievement(s) which qualify the nominee for entry to the PAS Hall of Fame; and a curriculum vitae or career
history or the candidate will not be considered.
The Hall of Fame Nominating Committee consists of the Past Presidents with the Immediate Past President serving as chair. The function of the Nominating Committee
shall be to evaluate the nominees in accordance with the Criteria for Selection and forward a slate of only the most deserving candidates to the Board of Directors for
final selection.
Final selection of the inductees will be made by the Board of Directors based on the documentation provided by the nominator and in accordance with the Criteria for
Election. Candidates receiving a majority of votes will be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Those elected, living or deceased, are honored at the annual PASIC Hall of
Fame Banquet.
Nominations will be accepted from any PAS member. Nominees need not be PAS members. Names of those nominated will be given consideration for 3 years from the
date of their last letter of nomination.
Nominations must include the name and address of the nominator and be sent to the Executive Director, Hall of Fame, PAS, 32 E. Washington, Suite 1400,
Indianapolis, IN 46204-3516. The deadline for nominations is February 1 of each year. The complete list of current Hall of Fame members appears on the PAS Web site
www.pas.org.
Criteria for Election to the PAS Hall of Fame
All nominees will be judged according to the following criteria:
Contribution: Has the nominee made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of percussion? Eminence: Have achievements in performance, education, research,
scholarship, administration, composition or the industry distinguished the nominee from his or her contemporaries? Influence: Has the nominee’s influence been of major
significance to the profession even though contributions may have been confined largely to a single area of interest. Permanence: Is it probable that the nominee’s accomplishments will continue to be valued by percussion professionals of the future?
nominations deadline: february 1, 2008
Nominations should be sent to Executive Director, Hall of Fame, PAS, 32 E. Washington, Suite 1400, Indianapolis, IN 46204-3516.
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SESSION
DEFINITIONS
Clinic: Performer(s) instructs/speaks
about and demonstrates techniques/
ideas.
Clinic/Performance: Same as the
clinic, but containing a greater amount
of structured performance (i.e., performance with group, tape, etc.).
Concert: Features artist(s) in a formal/
semiformal concert performance.
Lab: Hands-on, interactive,
instructional session.
Lecture/Paper Presentation: A formal,
academic presentation of a research
paper or topic.
Master Class: Attendees are called to
the stage to receive personal instruction in front of the audience.
Focus Day: Concert, clinics/
performances, and presentations on
Wednesday.
Panel Discussion: A panel of experts
on any given subject. Does not constitute featuring any particular artist in a
clinic or feature setting.
Presentation: Academic presentation
of a specific topic, i.e., industry seminar, posters.
Terrace Concert: An informal concert.
Workshop: All attendees are invited
to bring instruments and participate in
this instructional session.
PASIC 2007 program printed by Johnson Press of America, Pontiac, Illinois

PASIC 2007 Program - Percussive Arts Society

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