Professor of Snare Drum and Drum Set at Grand Canyon University, Steve Fitch holds the position of Associate Principal Timpanist, Percussion, and Drum Set with The Phoenix Symphony Orchestra (PSO). Mr. Fitch earned a Bachelor’s of Music degree in percussion performance under the tutelage of Michael Rosen at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. While at…
Director of Percussion at South Dakota State University (SDSU), Dr. Aaron Ragsdale teaches applied percussion, percussion pedagogy, conducts the SDSU Percussion Ensemble, and serves as Assistant Director of the renowned Pride of the Dakotas Marching Band. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from the University of Oklahoma; a Master of Music from the…
A concert artist and clinician for Malletech and the Zildjian Company, Dr. Blake Tyson is also Professor of Music at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA); a faculty member at the Interlochen Arts Camp; and served on the faculties of New Mexico State University, and the University of Alabama. He holds a DMA from the…
Dr. Andy Harnsberger is a Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Percussion Department at Lee University. He earned his Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University, and went on to receive the prestigious Performer’s Certificate, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. …
Inducted into the Percussive Arts Society’s Hall of Fame in 2010, Stanley Leonard achieved prominence in the music world during his distinguished thirty eight year career (1956-1994) as Principal Timpanist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO). With the PSO he performed internationally, on television productions, on over fifty recordings, premiering several major new works for…
Associate Professor of Percussion at the University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, Dr. William Shaltis is Principal Timpanist of the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, the Boise Baroque Orchestra, and regularly performs with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Formerly, he served as the Principal Timpanist for the Boise Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal Percussionist of…
Pablo Rieppi is President of the New York Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society; is Percussion Department Coordinator and Instructor at The Juilliard School, Pre-College Division; and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Percussion at Hofstra University. He earned a Bachelor of Music from George Mason University; a Master of Music and Professional Studies Certificate…
Honored by Poland’s Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society as an Ambassador of Polish Percussion, internationally renowned marimba virtuoso and chamber musician, Katarzyna Myćka discovered the marimba as her ideal medium for musical expression while studying at the music colleges in Gdansk, Stuttgart, and Salzburg. She is a professor at the Music Academy in her…
Earning degrees from Louisiana State University, The Ohio State University, and Frostburg State University, Dr. David P. Eyler is an Emeritus-In-Residence Professor at Concordia College (Moorhead, MN), and is a Faculty Artist in Residence at the Lutheran Summer Music Academy at Valparaiso University. At Concordia he was the Director of Percussion Studies, and conducted the…
Performer, publisher, composer, and educator, William L. Cahn is probably best known as a founding member of the percussion ensemble, NEXUS. From 2005 to 2015 he was Associate Professor of Percussion at the Eastman School of Music, and a Visiting Artist in Residence at the Showa Academy of Music in Kawasaki, Japan. Mr. Cahn was…