Musician & Educator
“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 …
I had the pleasure of performing in-person recently with the 21st Century Consort for a “reunion” concert of sorts. It had been 7-months almost to the day since the last time I had an in-person rehearsal or performance with other musicians as we’ve all been Read More …
The Passion of Scrooge from H. Paul Moon on Vimeo. Last December 2017, I had the pleasure of taking part in a huge project in my role at principal percussionist with the 21st Century Consort. H. Paul Moon, of Zen Violence Films, worked with the Read More …
Hey Friends, I’m gearing up for my Focus Day performance at PASIC 2017 on Thursday November 9 at 9 am in the Indianapolis Convention Center, Wabash Ballroom. I’ll be presenting Stuart Saunders Smith’s stunning marimba opera entitled The Authors. The piece asks the performer to speak, Read More …
Hey Everyone! I had the distinct pleasure of premiering this fantastic new work by Baljinder Sekhon last spring at Carnegie Hall! We did the piece at the University of South Florida last spring as well and just recently performed it at the University of Maryland. Read More …