I'm a percussionist living in Athens, OH.

I received my BM in performance from Centenary College of Louisiana in 2007 and I'm currently applying to graduate schools.

My main interest is in new music. Specifically the kind being produced by such groups/ensembles as Bang on a Can, Alarm Will Sound, So Percussion and Eighth Blackbird.

Nov 18
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“ Most people mistakenly think that when they hear a piece of music, that they’re not doing anything, but that something is being done to them. Now this is not true, and we must arrange our music, we must arrange our art, we must arrange everything, I believe, so that people realize that they themselves are doing it, and not that something is being done to them.
— John Cage, in an interview by Roger Reynolds, Dec. 1961, Ann Arbor, MI. (via musicage)
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GRACE!

I’ve been completely in love with Martin Bresnick’s Grace: for Two Marimbas and Orchestra since hearing the Robert Van Sice recording of it a few years ago.

I had not been able to find a piano reduction for the piece and gave up thinking it would be one of those pieces that’s “too good” to have one, but apparently one was created this year. Thanks to Brad Meyer posting his recording of it on YouTube, I was able to track down the parts and they will, hopefully, arrive soon (“custom print jobs” can take up to 6 weeks!!).

I’ve got another percussionist ready to perform it and a pianist on stand by. I haven’t been this excited about learning a piece in a long time… plus it’s about time I put another concerto in my repertoire.

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Nov 09
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Here’s a teaser of the Ohio University Percussion Ensemble performing Dong-Wook Park’s Contrast.This work combines a traditional Korean percussion duo (performing on Janggo, Buk, Kkwaenggwari and Jing) with a westren percussion quintet

Be sure to check out their PASIC performance Wednesday at 1:00pm (they kick off the session that Percussion Group Cincinnati performs on).

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