Instruction and Assessment
All percussion students receive instruction by a tenured faculty member (not a graduate teaching assistant)
Excellent teacher-to-student ratios and faculty access in music
Frequent guest artist appearances, clinics, and master classes
Multiple levels of student opportunity; project-based ventures; collaborative performances; programmed
curricula for listening, composition, self-assessment; professional/business training
Percussion lessons are taught using instructor's Marimba One 5-octave instrument, Yamaha gold-bar vibraphone,
Yamaha Birch Custom Absolute drum set, Hinger or Black Swamp concert snare drum
Excellent teacher-to-student ratios and faculty access in music
Frequent guest artist appearances, clinics, and master classes
Multiple levels of student opportunity; project-based ventures; collaborative performances; programmed
curricula for listening, composition, self-assessment; professional/business training
Percussion lessons are taught using instructor's Marimba One 5-octave instrument, Yamaha gold-bar vibraphone,
Yamaha Birch Custom Absolute drum set, Hinger or Black Swamp concert snare drum
Students rehearsing "Into the Air" by Ivan Trevino (two 5-octave marimbas) - percussion office