ABOUT Nick Terry SESSION TITLE: Performance of “A Near-Empty Space” Nick Terry is a percussionist and educator specializing in contemporary classical chamber music. Currently based in Los Angeles, his multi-faceted creative output has received critical acclaim from the Recording Academy (winner, 57th and 62nd Grammy Awards; official nominee 55th Grammy Awards), Percussive Arts Society (invited…
ABOUT Nath Calan SESSION TITLE: Performance of “Cenas instantâneas dispersas” by Carlos dos Santos’s Nath Calan is a percussionist who graduated from UNESP with a master’s degree in musical performance from UNICAMP and is a doctoral candidate in musical performance at UFMG. She is a timpanist at OSMS and percussionist at Bachiana Filarmônica SESI SP….
Morris Palter ABOUT Woven SESSION TITLE: Performance of “Woven” by Gregory Harrison Woven brings together percussionist/composers Morris Palter and Gregory Harrison for the first time in a professional duo setting. Morris’s wide-range of musical interests have found him performing throughout North America, Asia, and Europe at some of the most prestigious festivals and concert venues…
ABOUT Melissa Wang SESSION TITLE: Performance of “Self-Accusation” by Kate Neal, text by Peter Handke Melissa Wang is a composer, educator, and percussionist. She studied at the University of Washington (UW), studying Percussion Performance with the interest in theatrical percussion, as well as Composition with the interest in incorporating unconventional choreographies in existing genres such…
ABOUT Martin Daigle SESSION TITLE: Performance of “Freeze!” by Jason Noble The 2022 winner of Music NB’s Innovator of the Year award, Martin Daigle is an interdisciplinary performer, composer, researcher, and producer from New Brunswick, Canada. Flourishing from creative foundations as a drummer and percussionist, his diverse work as a performer, composer and researcher pushes…
ABOUT Mark Eichenberger SESSION TITLE: Performance of “TLC” by Juri Seo As a performer, Mark maintains a busy schedule as a freelance percussionist in the Princeton area. He is a frequent performer for the Princeton Sound Kitchen, premiering new works by composers at Princeton University. He also drums with the bands Joy on Fire and…
ABOUT Kevin Nichols SESSION TITLE: Performance of “Air” (1988; revised 1993-4) by Janis Mercer Dr. Kevin A. Nichols, Associate Professor of Music at Western Illinois University, teaches applied percussion and percussion methods courses, coaches jazz combos, and is the drum line coordinator for the Marching Leathernecks. Outside of WIU, he is active as a performer,…
ABOUT Justin Alexander SESSION TITLE: Performance of “Concerto for Drum Set and Percussion Ensemble” by Jamie Whitmarsh Percussionist Justin Alexander is acclaimed for the versatility and musicality of his playing as well as his commitment and focus as a teacher. He is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University…
ABOUT Jude Traxler SESSION TITLE: Performance of “Violets, for solo drumset” by Stuart Saunders Smith Jude Traxler is an experimental and conceptual artist living in Nashville. Both as a composer and multi-instrumentalist, Jude constantly creates new works that sift a familiar soundscape of pan-diatonic chord progressions through beats that push one’s rhythmic constitution to the…
Joel Garza Kevin von Kampen ABOUT Garza von Kampen & The WOU-USF Percussion Group SESSION TITLE: Performance of “Palindrome” from Mark Applebaum’s “Straitjacket” Garza von Kampen and the WOU-USF (or “woo-SF”) Percussion Group is a collective comprised of two university percussion studios spanning across both American coasts: Western Oregon University, led by Joel Alberto Garza…
