Josh Gottry & Nathan Daughtrey
The Percussionist Composer
Professional Development
Friday, 9:00 a.m.

Josh Gottry	Nathan Daughtrey

Josh Gottry serves as Adjunct Professor of Music at Chandler-Gilbert Community College (AZ), teaching courses in percussion, music theory, and composition. He also works with a number of private students as part of his percussion studio and presents clinics on percussion and composition as a Teaching Artist for the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Josh Gottry's first composition, “Irrelevant” for solo marimba, earned him an ASCAP Young Composer Competition grant in 1995, and he has since been selected for numerous ASCAP Plus awards and created nearly fifty published works. His pieces are internationally performed and have been consistently recognized for their creativity, accessibility, and overall quality. He is a clinician for Mike Balter Mallets, Pro-Mark Drumsticks, and Yamaha Percussion and is President of the Arizona State Chapter of PAS, chair of the PAS Composition Contest Committee, and a member of the PAS Education Committee.

Nathan Daughtrey is Adjunct Professor of Percussion and Music Composition at High Point University (NC) where he teaches applied lessons, directs percussion ensemble and collaborates with the School of Communication on film projects. As a performing artist and clinician for Yamaha and Vic Firth, Dr. Daughtrey has performed and conducted masterclasses and clinics in concert halls and at universities throughout the United States and across three continents. With over sixty publications for concert band, percussion ensemble, orchestra, chamber ensembles, and soloists as well as an ever-growing number of commissions, his works have been performed at national and international conferences. Daughtrey is the only composer in the history of the PAS Composition Contest to procure both 2nd and 3rd place in the same year with his percussion ensemble works “Limerick Daydreams” and “Adaptation.”  He proudly serves on the PAS Composition Contest Committee and helps to coordinate the PASIC Fun Runs.

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