PAS Percussion Ensemble Competition & Festival
at the University of Missouri
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Hosted by Megan Arns
University of Missouri
208 Sinquefield Music Center
Columbia, MO 65211
PAS Group Member
$250
Non-PAS Group Member
$400
Learn more about becoming a PAS Group Member here.
Only one registration per school/organization will be accepted up until one month prior to the chosen event.
Judges
Dave Hall
Dave Hall is Associate Professor of Percussion at the University of North Texas College of Music, where he directs the UNT Percussion Ensemble and teaches applied lessons and courses on percussion literature, history, and pedagogy. Before his appointment at UNT, he was Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Under his direction, the University of Nebraska Percussion Ensemble was selected to perform a showcase concert at PASIC in both 2019 and 2016 as winners of the Percussive Arts Society International Percussion Ensemble Competition.
He regularly performs as a keyboard and multi-percussion soloist, collaborative chamber musician (especially in contemporary classical settings), jazz drummer, timpanist, orchestral percussionist, steel pan player, and improviser – favoring an eclectic and omnivorous approach to percussion and the arts. In addition to regular engagements in the contiguous United States, he has performed abroad in Spain, Puerto Rico, Belgium, France, Italy, and at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
Dave is an active composer, published by C. Alan Publications. His works for percussion have been commissioned, performed, and recorded around the world. His music has been called “the aural equivalent of a Dali painting” (New York Concert Review). His compositions are regularly performed at notable venues including the Midwest Clinic, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy, and at major concert halls and performing arts centers in the USA and abroad. He is regularly involved nationally and internationally as an adjudicator and clinician for concert and marching percussion. In the summer of 2019, he joined the staff of the Bluecoats (DCI) as Associate Music Ensemble Coordinator.
Dr. Hall has earned degrees in percussion performance from the University of North Texas (D.M.A), TCU (M.M.), and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (B.M.). He is an endorsing artist for Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets, Pearl/Adams concert percussion, Remo drumheads, Sabian Cymbals, and is a member of the Black Swamp Percussion Educator Network. He is currently co-chair of the PAS Percussion Ensemble Committee and a member of the PAS Board of Advisors. Dave lives in Denton, TX with his wife Elizabeth and their three children
Emily Salgado
Percussionist Dr. Emily Salgado is active as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician,
clinician, and adjudicator. Emily has performed and premiered several works with
various ensembles such as the National Chinese Orchestra Taiwan, Twin Lakes Duo,
and the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. Her current project, Well Behaved Women
Seldom Make History, features solos written by female composers [Jennifer Jolley,
Molly Joyce, Shruthi Rajasekar, and Juri Seo] dedicated to female percussionists [Evelyn
Glennie, Margie Hyams, Keiko Abe, Terri Lyne Carrington] whose careers helped shape
the field of percussion into what it is today.
In January 2023, Emily formed Twin Lakes Duo with her friend and colleague Jimmy
Stagnitti. The duo plans to tour and perform around the U.S. starting in the upcoming
school year. Their most recent performance and premiere was of Emma O’Halloran’s
percussion duet titled music for the small hours as part of the consortium organized by
the New Works Project.
Along with percussion, Emily has also had various opportunities in the field of
conducting. She marched with the drum and bugle corps Carolina Crown based out of
Fort Mill, SC where she was the assistant drum major for the 2015 season and the head
drum major for her age-out season in 2016. Since her age-out, Emily has been working
with Crown’s Leadership Camp each summer working with high school drum majors
from across the country on basic conductor and leadership skills. She also assists the
corps with their drum major auditions every fall. Emily is incredibly fortunate to be
returning to the corps as part of the brass staff for the upcoming 2025 DCI season.
Dr. Emily Salgado is currently the Assistant Professor of Percussion at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln where she teaches both graduate and undergraduate applied
lessons, directs the percussion ensemble and Nebraska Steel, and teaches other
courses in percussion. Additionally, she serves on the University Pedagogy Committee
and the Diversity Alliance as part of the Percussive Arts Society, and is proudly
endorsed by Malletech Inc. and Black Swamp Percussion.
Additional Information
Questions? Please email Roland Hernandez at rhernandez@pas.org.
