William Moersch
"Merlin"
Focus Day Performance
Thursday, 1:00 p.m.

William Moersch is Associate Professor of Percussion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Internationally renown as a marimba virtuoso, chamber and symphonic percussionist, recording artist, and educator, he has appeared as soloist with orchestras and in recitals throughout North and South America, Europe, the Far East, and Australia. A regularly featured artist at international percussion festivals, Mr. Moersch is perhaps best known for his solo compact disc, The Modern Marimba, and for commissioning over the past thirty years much of the prominent modern repertoire for solo marimba. In addition, he was the first marimbist ever to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Fellowship and has also been honored by NEA Recording and Consortium Commissioning grants. Currently, he garners further acclaim as Principal Timpanist of Sinfonia da Camera and the Champaign Urbana Symphony Orchestra.

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