The two newest members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra presented a clinic at Boston Conservatory titled “BSO after the First Year.” It was wonderful to hear these two percussionists talk about their experiences and challenges - both are wonderful speakers as well as players! The
The Tromp Competition Repertoire Days took place at Boston Conservatory October 19 and 20th - Guests were Arnold Marinissen (the Netherlands, Tromp jury member), Mike Truesdell (USA, 2nd prize winner of the Tromp Competition in 2010) and Alexandre Esperet (France, 1st prize winner of the
I won the Director of Percussion Position at the University of CT beginning in the Fall of 2013. I will be teaching Percussion Ensemble and Percussion Lessons. Go Huskies!
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