Category: Announcements
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Congratulations to the Graduates
On May 18, 2012, the College of the Arts at CSULB held their commencement ceremony. This year, the percussion program at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music graduated 6 majors and 1 minor. Congratulations to Andrew McAfee, Michael Malinowski, Kim Long Vo, Patrick O’Konski, Danny Chavarin, Jonathan Baer and Amanda Buda. All your hard work…
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2012 Mira Costa HS Spring Percussion Festival
I will be presenting a percussion masterclass on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 5:30pm as part of the Mira Costa HS Spring Percussion Festival. The masterclass, titled “The 21st Century Percussionist: Today, Tomorrow and the Future,” will talk about becoming a successful freelance percussionists. The masterclass is sponsored by Zildjian, Yamaha, Evans and Innovative Percussion.…
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Genesis Hand Pan
Over the past couple of months, I have been fortunate enough to play a new instrument called the Genesis Hand Pan (aka Hang Drum). A friend of mine, David Beery, has starting making these instruments and they are absolutely beautiful instrument. Below is a video from the IronWorks Percussion Duo Concert on March 1, 2012.…
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New Video of “Continuous Line of Evenness”
It has been a busy month and I haven’t been writing much on my blog! I hope to change that in the coming month. I wanted to share the first video of my new timpani solo “Continuous Line of Evenness.” This is from my Faculty Artist Series Concert on November 1, 2011. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGiDJM542d8 Please leave…
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Website Updates and Content
I have been busy working on updating my website the past couple of weeks. Some of the changes include: 1) Concert Program Archive On the Calendar page, I will be posting all of the programs of the my past concerts. Feel free to check out the programs and let me know if you have any…
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IronWorks Percussion Duo Concert
The IronWorks Percussion Duo will be presenting a Faculty Artist Series Concert on Thursday, March 1, 2012 at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at CSU, Long Beach. The duo will perform a diverse percussion program including: Go – Robert McClure Red Tree, Yellow Sky – Bill Ryan Ollin – Tizoc Ceballos (BCCM Alumnus) Two…
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UT, Austin Residency
It has been a busy couple of weeks! Last week, I was in Austin at the University of Texas. While in Austin, I worked with the UT Steel Drum Band and Percussion studio. During the residency, the UT Steel Drum Band premiered a new piece I wrote called Samba de los Changitos. (I will post…
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Technology and Its Use by Percussion Educators in the 21st Century
Over the summer, Dr. Tracy Wiggins (UNC Pembroke) asked me to contribute to an article he was writing for The Percussive Notes journal. After waiting 6 months, it has finally been released in the January 2012 issue. The article features an interview with three other percussion professors, including Norman Weinberg (University of Arizona), John W.…
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An Evening of Tibetan Singing Bowls II
Last year, the chair of the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music, Carolyn Bremer, began collecting a lot of Tibetan Singing Bowls. I am not sure the exact number of bowls that she owns, but it is probably around +/- 50. During the Spring 2011 semester, Carolyn decided she wanted to record the bowls and I…
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Bossa de los Changitos
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working on a new steel drum piece called Bossa de los Changitos. The piece will be premiered while during my residency at the University of Texas at Austin on February 21, 2012. Here’s a midi realization: [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/33518847″] I hope you enjoy the recording. In the…