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THE COMPANY Indoor Drumline, based out of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, has won the 2012 Indoor Percussion Europe Champiopnship in the International Marching class.  This was the first season that the organization competed as a marching ensemble after winning a concert class championship in 2011.  For more information on their journey and accomplishemts from a member’s [...]

Marian Catholic director of bands, Greg Bimm, received an honorary doctorate in music education from Vandercook College of Music in Chicago.

Space still exists for this great camp. Tom Aungst will head up the Marching Percussion while legendary drummer and teacher, Ndugu Chancler leads the drum set track! For more information visit:

 http://www.txstate.edu/bands/camps/percussioncamp.html

6th ANNUAL NEY ROSAURO MALLET AND PERCUSSION CAMP   This is the best opportunity to study with Ney Rosauro and learn his approach to composition and his performing  techniques on marimba, vibraphone and other instruments.    Participants will perform in master classes and concerts and will receive instruction on a   variety of percussion subjects including:     *               Compositional aspects and analysis of  Rosauro’s works   *               Four-mallet technique (Rosauro’s extended [...]

So Percussion will serve as artists in residence for the 2012 Sewanee Music Festival. in residence at Sewanee from July 10-12, they will perform a concert, conduct master classes, work with ensembles, and share their wealth of knowledge and experience with our students! Joining So this summer is percussionist John Kilkenny, who will be returning [...]

Chicago-based percussion ensemble THIRD COAST PERCUSSION announces a new CD/DVD on MODE RECORDS JOHN CAGE: The Works for Percussion 2 A nation-wide release timed to honor Cage’s centenary year AVAILABLE MAY 22, 2012 “Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to nineteenth-century music. Today we are fighting emancipation. Tomorrow, with [...]

The Campbellsville University School of Music would like to announce the Campbellsville University Percussion Ensemble Festival. Adam Hopper will be presenting a drum set clinic.

In addition to clinics and student performances, there will also be performances by the C.U. Steel Band and Percussion Ensemble.

April 14th, 2012-Gosser Fine Arts Center, Campbellsville, Kentucky-9:00am-9:00pm.

HONORING ITS STEADFAST COMMITMENT TO BUILDING NEW AUDIENCES FOR JAZZ, NATIONAL NONPROFIT JAZZREACH HAS SERVED OVER A QUARTER MILLION YOUNG PEOPLE NATIONWIDE SINCE INCEPTION—AIMS TO SERVE MORE THAN 30,000 THIS YEAR ALONE EXTENSIVE NATIONAL TOURING & OUTREACH CONTINUES THROUGHOUT THE SPRING, REACHING YOUNG PEOPLE IN OVER 17 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES LATEST ALBUM AND LIVE MULTIMEDIA PROGRAM BIG DRUM/SMALL WORLD CELEBRATES [...]

In an interactive concert organized by Jazz at Lincoln Center, jazz drummer and educator Alvin Atkinson and friends invite families to join the Second Line parade and express their own personal style through movement and song as they learn the language of New Orleans jazz. Together they’ll explore collective improvisation, call and response, grooves and learn [...]

Vic Firth artist Dave Black and Alfred Music Publishing is proud to announce the launch of the 25th Anniversary of Alfred’s Drum Method, Book 1 promotion. You can view the promotional video below. 

 Congrats Dave, and here’s to another successful 25 years!

Dr. Gifford Howarth first visited Singapore in the spring of 2006 on a travel fellowship as part of his doctorate program at Michigan State University. Since then he has made 5 additional trips to the Southeast Asian country, and on March 9th he is back on the plane for the 24-hour flight to Singapore. This visit [...]

The Southern Oregon University Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Dr. Terry Longshore, presents Steve Reich’s epic masterwork “Music for 18 Musicians” (Ashland, Ore.) – The premiere performance of the Southern Oregon University (SOU) Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Dr. Terry Longshore, will feature Steve Reich’s epic masterwork, “Music for 18 Musicians”. The performance will take place in the SOU Music [...]

 The Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensembles, directed by Dr. Terry Longshore, and the Southern Oregon Chapter of the National Association of Composers, USA present “Living Sound”, a concert of works by local composers. (Ashland, Ore.) – The widely acclaimed Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensembles and the Southern Oregon Chapter of the National Association of Composers, [...]

 Today, Thursday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m ., the Youth Performing Arts School’s (YPAS’s) Percussion Ensemble will boldly go where few high school musicians have gone before. The group of YPAS students will have the unique opportunity to perform a piece created by a renowned composer specifically for their ensemble. Hurtling Through Space … at an Unimaginable Speed will be [...]

One of the most important things that a drummer needs in order to survive in the music business today is versatility. Being able to sight-read music is great. Being able to learn music by ear is great. However, if you can only do one of those things you are really limiting yourself. On very rare occasions, [...]

(February 13, 2012 ) The Curtis Institute of Music will partner with pioneering contemporary music ensemble eighth blackbird, “a new breed of super-musicians” ( Los Angeles Times ) revamping the concert experience and forging new relationships with audiences, to create a three-year residency funded by a $450,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Designed to prepare students to [...]

Dr. Greg Byrne is Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at the University of Louisville. In addition to this role, he has just completed a thirteen-year run as Associate Director of Bands, serving as the Marching Band Director and the Director of the University Concert Band and Community Band.  Dr. Byrne is an [...]