ABOUT Joseph Van Hassel

SESSION TITLE: Performance of “About Face for Drum Set Duet” by David Macbride
Performing with Alexandros Fragiskatos

Joseph Van Hassel is on the percussion faculty at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and is chair of the Percussive Arts Society’s New Music / Research Committee, president of the North Carolina Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society, and co-owner of Media Press Music. He endorses Yamaha Percussion, Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets, Black Swamp Percussion Products, Sabian Cymbals, and Remo Drumheads.

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