John Tafoya
The Incredibly Mysterious Roll of the Orchestral Timpanist
Symphonic Clinic
Friday, 1:00 p.m.

John Tafoya serves as Chairman of the Percussion Department and is Professor of Percussion at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. From 1999-2007, he served as principal timpanist for the National Symphony Orchestra and has held previous principal timpani positions with the American Wind Symphony, the National Repertory Orchestra, the Owensboro Symphony (KY), the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra (IN), and the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Tafoya has also performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Tafoya has worked under many prestigious conductors including: Vladimir Ashkenazy, James Conlon, Jiri Belohlavek, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Valery Gergiev, Christopher Hogwood, Lorin Maazel, David Robertson, Mstislav Rostropovich, Leonard Slatkin, Osmo Vanska, John Williams, Hugh Wolff, and David Zinman.

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