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I’m honored to be featured today for Five Question Friday on the PAS Rhythm! Scene Blog. These were some fun questions to answer! Read the blog here.

Read the announcement here. I couldn’t be more thrilled to announce that I’ll be headed to Penn State University next fall as the new Assistant Professor of Percussion! #WEARE

We hosted Mike Perdue for an excellent masterclass on improvisation this week with the University of Maryland Percussion Studio. Mike directs the Percussion Ensemble at Manhattan School of Music and is a colleague from many years back when we attended Brevard Music Center together as Read More …

“For the sixth consecutive year, the University of Maryland (UMD) earned a top 10 ranking in The Princeton Review‘s annual survey of top schools for entrepreneurship. In the 2021 rankings released today and featured in the December issue of Entrepreneur magazine, UMD placed No. 6 for undergraduate entrepreneurship education Read More …

At Seventy: The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith,The Authors: a marimba opera, Chen Li Music, CLM 107, 2020, Buy it HERE. I’m featured on The Authors (2006) on Disk Five. In 2017, I re-recorded Smith’s The Authors (a marimba opera). It can also be Read More …

I was honored to organize a major virtual concert entitled “New Music/Research Presents: Music for Voice & Percussion” for the Percussive Arts Society International Convention along with my colleague Bonnie Whiting. The concert streamed on Saturday November 14 from 1 pm to 2 pm EST. Read More …

Last fall 2019, Sarah Frisof (flute & fellow UMD faculty member), Danielle Cho (cello & SoundImpact), and I (marimba/vibes) collaborated for a performance at the District New Music Coalition Conference. We performed Ingrid Stölzel‘s piece The Voice of the Rain. You can listen to the Read More …

There was a very nice article yesterday in the Diamondback, the on-campus newspaper at UMD-College Park, about the UMD Percussion Ensemble and our work during the pandemic. “The whole ensemble, save two students who Zoomed into the rehearsal from their homes, was physically present. The Read More …

I had the pleasure of speaking with Casey Cangelosi, Karlyn Viña (UMD School of Music Alumna, Go Terps!), Ben Charles, and Anders Astrand for Casey’s podcast “@ Percussion” last May 2019. We had a great conversation about theatrical music for percussion, one of my favorite Read More …