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Roger Braun
| Anthony Di Sanza
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Patrick Roulet
| Alison Shaw
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Roger Braun is Professor of Percussion at Ohio University. His prior teaching appointments include the University of Michigan-Flint, Albion College, Interlochen Arts Camp, and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Braun’s diverse performance career has led him throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea, and Cuba, including collaborations with musicians such as Keiko Abe, Lyle Mays, Bob Mintzer, and Bernard Woma. Braun has performed with the Lansing, Flint, Ann Arbor, and Saginaw Symphonies, the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, the Detroit Chamber Winds, and in the Broadway touring shows Beauty and the Beast, Titanic, and Ragtime. Currently, he performs with the Biakuye Percussion Group, the Ohio Valley Symphony, Los Viejos Blanquitos, Unprepared Music for Keyboards and Percussion, and Galaxy Percussion. He can be heard on more than a dozen recordings, including Sticks and Stones: Music for Percussion and Strings by Equilibrium Records. Braun earned his degrees from the University of Michigan and the Eastman School of Music.
Patrick Roulet is a dedicated percussion artist and educator with 17 years of college teaching and professional performance experience. He currently directs the percussion program at Towson University and teaches at the New England Music Camp. He has performed with numerous orchestras and chamber ensembles including the Seattle Symphon, and the Pacific Rims Percussion Quartet. He has recently completed a recording project of the early percussion works of Pulitzer-prize winning composer, Michael Colgrass. He holds degrees from the University of Washington, Boston University, and the University of Michigan. As a Yamaha Performing Artist, he has given masterclasses and clinics throughout the United States.
Currently on the faculty of The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Alison Shaw previously taught at Michigan State University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Eastern New Mexico University, and The Interlochen Center for the Arts. Her solo CD, Signs of Intelligent Life, is released on the Eroica Classics label, and her second CD, Cadenza, Fugue and Boogie, is currently in production, with an expected release in March 2012. As Co-Founder and Percussionist of Quorum Chamber Arts Collective, she recorded an award-winning compact disc, Cold Water, Dry Stone-The works of Evan Chambers on the Albany label. Shaw performs with the percussion/tuba duo, Balance, the Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra, and The Brass Band of Battle Creek. For PAS, she served on the Board of Directors, as Chairperson of the College Pedagogy Committee, and as an Associate Editor for Percussive Notes. Shaw is a performer/endorser for Encore Mallets, and is a clinician and endorser for Sabian Cymbals and Black Swamp Percussion.
Anthony Di Sanza, a recognized international performer and educator, has performed, presented masterclasses, and held residencies in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has appeared as a visiting artist at over 40 educational institutions. Active in a wide variety of Western and non-Western percussive areas, he can be heard on numerous CD recordings with a variety of artists and ensembles. Anthony released his first solo CD, titled On the Nature of . . ., on the Equilibrium label in 2011. Also a composer, Anthony has works published with Alfred and HoneyRock and his book Improvisational Practice Techniques; A Handbook for Incorporating Improvisation into the Percussionist’s Daily Practice Routine is published by RGM music. Anthony holds degrees from Youngstown State University and the University of Michigan. He serves as Professor of Percussion at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and is an endorser of Sabian Cymbals, Black Swamp Percussion, Remo Drumheads and Encore Mallets, as well as an educational endorser of Pro-Mark Drumsticks.
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