Gwendolyn Burgett Thrasher
Khan Variations
Focus Day Performance
Thursday, 1:00 p.m.

Gwendolyn Burgett Thrasher is currently the Associate Professor of Percussion at Michigan State University in the College of Music.  She is principal percussionist with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra and has also performed with the Detroit Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Solisti New York Orchestra, the Grand Rapids Symphony, and the Traverse Symphony Orchestra.  Thrasher was the winner of the Keiko Abe Prize at the second World Marimba competition in Okaya, Japan, and the top prize- winner at the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts competition. She has a performer’s certificate from the Eastman School of Music, an Outstanding Young Musician award from the Peabody Conservatory, and a Yale Alumni Award.  Thrasher released her first CD in October of 2007 entitled Marimba Suites: Gwendolyn Burgett Thrasher plays her transcriptions of the six Bach Cello Suites.  Her second CD of all new, commissioned marimba music should be ready before the end of the year.

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