Interlochen hosts an Adult Band Camp - which is an amazingly gratifying experience for some wonderful adult amateur percussionists! It was my pleasure to help them with both large ensemble/band and chamber music. For their chamber music performance, they played William Kraft’s Suite for Percussion.
The 2013 Interlochen Arts Camp was a great success! Just a few highlights of the summer orchestra included Hary Janos Suite, The Sorcerer’ss Apprentice, Capriccio Espagnol, Don Juan, Shostakovich 5th Symphony and MORE! Percussion Ensemble was equally a success - performing Gainsbourgh, Sosso Balla by
James L. Moore visited the Interlochen Arts Camp to present a clinic and do a sight-reading session with the students. It was my first time meeting James and it was a pleasure to have him work with the students. He holds degrees from the University
The 2013 Interlochen Percussion Institute was a great success! Faculty members John Alfieri and director Keith Aleo, pictured above with the students - also, guest Artists Rob Knopper, Jauvon Gilliam and Ed Soph. In addition, there were two guest Artists earlier in the week -
Famed music educator, hall of fame member and professor of percussion at the University of Kentucky, Jim Campbell and the U of KY Percussion Ensemble presented a spectacular performance of Michael Burritt’s Streaming. Streaming is for 4 percussion and percussion soloist. The group was “ON”
It was a huge “Percussion weekend” at Boston Conservatory March 3 and 4th. Co-sponsored by the TROMP International Percussion Competition, the two days featured a master class/performance by keyboard percussionist Emmanuel Sejourne (from Strasbourg, France), multi-percussionist Arnold Marinissen (from Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and concluded with
I was fortunate to play Michael Burritt’s new composition entitled Streaming, for percussion soloist and percussion ensemble. This was part of the Eastman Chamber Percussion Ensemble concert on the evening of Feb. 17th. The students did a marvelous job on the ensemble parts and Mike
From January 22 through Saturday January 28 I had the opportunity to work with the Colombian Youth Philharmonic This is a highly prestigious, audition only orchestra that is comprised of the most talented students from across the country. Above, from Left to Right: Oscar Duarte,
Chase was a student of mine at the Boston Conservatory for 3 years - prior to that he was a student of David Smith getting his undergrad degree at Western Connecticut State University. A special congratulations goes to Chase on winning this postion! He will
Commissioned by the Zildjian Company, Michael Burritt’s Streaming is for percussion soloist and four player percussion ensemble. I needed a piece to play with percussion students when I went to schools to visit - so, I asked Mike if he would be interested in writing