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**UPCOMING EVENTS**
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South Gwinnett High School will be hosting “A Day of Percussion.”
On April 26th, 2008
This event, will include performances by 16 local middle and high school percussion ensembles , as well as clinics and master classes throughout the day.
Kevin Bobo, Professor of Percussion at Indiana University, will be presenting a marimba clinic at noon, and Dr. Arvin Scott, Professor of Percussion at the University of Georgia, will be presenting a hand-drumming master class at 4pm. The evening will be capped off by a performance featuring Kevin Bobo, Gordon Stout and The University of Georgia Percussion Ensemble at 8pm. Come join us for what promises to be a great “Day of Percussion”!
This event is co-sponsored by Malletech, Latin Percussion,
Sabian, The Georgia Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society, the Southern
Association for Performance Arts, and Fork’s Drum Closet.
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His Beat Lives on Through.....
A Day of Drums
April 26, 2008 Hope United Methodist Church, Dallas GA 10-4 PM
Featuring Bill Bachman, Johnny Rabb with Chris Patterson and Rafael Pereira
Also featuring the Quest Indoor Drumline and Atlanta area drumlines
Tickets are $5 at the door
Proceeds for this event go to the Jonathan Oliver Hicks Memorial Scholarship Fund
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Luis Conte Clinic
Friday, May 23, 2008 7:00 PM
Kennesaw State University
Bailey Performance Center
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Sonny Emory Drumset Camp
GA Tech University.................June 2-6More info at www.sonnye.com
Come Study with the Pros and Become a Great Musician!
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PAST EVENTS
Marco Minnemann Drumset Clinic
Thursday, June 7, 2007 8:00 PM
Marietta Guitar Center
Admission is FREE!
Sponsored by: GA PAS, DW, Roland, Audix, Promark, Evans and Guitar Center
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The Keith Carlock Clinic held on Wednesday April 25, was a great success!
Thanks again to Mike Lynch for hosting this event!
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The Milton Percussion Showcase
Monday, May 21, 2007 7:30pm Milton High School Auditorium
Participating ensembles include:
Milton High School Steel Band “Sheer Pan-ic”
Hopewell Middle School Percussion Ensemble
Northwestern Middle School Percussion Ensemble
Milton High School Percussion Ensemble
For more information please visit www.miltonpercussion.org
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On April 21, 2007 Fayette Middle School and the Fayette Middle School World Percussion Ensemble hosted Jason Currin’s Ultra Terrific Udu Xylorimba Tom Tom Gong-a-Thon …A Percussion Extravaganza!!!
*****Please visit our website for full Details: http://www.percussionevents.com*****
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The Antonio Sanchez clinc, held Sunday, January 14, 2007 was a huge success! Thanks to Mike Lynch for hosting the event at Lassiter High School. Also thanks to Chris Moore, Christopher Hunt and the Marietta Guitar Center (Jason) for helping with this event.
Mike Lynch, host, Antonio Sanchez, Karen Hunt GA PAS Treasurer, Chris Moore GA PAS President
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Mercer University Percussion Events
call (478)301-2748 or see the website @ www.mercer.edu/music
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Georgia State University
more info coming soon.....
Please
contact Stuart Gerber via email (swgerber@gsu.edu) or by phone
(404.651.1317) if you have any questions about GSU events. (www.rialtocenter.org).
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Columbus State University
more info coming soon.....
For any information please call:
Dr.
Paul Vaillancourt
Assistant Professor of Percussion
Columbus State University
Work: 706-649-1235
Fax: 706-649-7369
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Emory University Percussion Events
more info coming soon.....
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Valdosta State University Percussion Events
VSU Day of Percussion May 19 - all Day. High School Percussion Ensembles invited to attend and perform.
Contact David Morris at 229-333-5813 for more information
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Recent Chix with Stix Percussion Group Performances:
January 13, 2007- Chix with Stix Percussion Group with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, performing Schedrine's Carmen Fantasy
February 19, 2007 - GA College and State University, Miledgeville GA
March 6, 2007- ProMusica Concert Series, Gainesville GA, Brenau College
March
22, 2007- Reinhardt College, Falany Performing Arts Center
For more info: www.khartistsgroup.com
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NEWS! NEWS! NEWS! NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!
The GA Chapter of PAS would like to welcome Dr. Marcus Reddick to Mercer University in Macon.
Dr. Marcus Reddick is in his first year as the Director of Percussion Studies and Assistant Professor of Music at Mercer University in Macon, GA. where he teaches applied percussion lessons, percussion ensemble, percussion techniques, and classes in music theory and musicianship. Before coming Mercer, Dr. Reddick was the Director of Percussion Studies at Albany State University in Albany, GA.
A Colorado native, Dr. Reddick received his Doctor of Musical Arts in Percussion Performance from the University of Kentucky, a Master of Music in Percussion Performance at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. His principal teachers at each of these universities were Professor James Campbell at UK, Dr. Dean Gronemeier at UNLV, and Dr. Steven Rehbein at UNO.
During
his tenure as a student, Reddick received several awards including the prestigious
UNLV Foundation Creative Arts Award, an annual award given to only one student
in the College of Fine and Performing Arts, the Distinguished Music Performance
Award upon completion of his degree from UNO, and multiple soloist awards
from the Kansas City, Chicago, Greeley, and Louisville Jazz Festivals.
As a percussionist, Dr. Reddick has toured and performed with numerous ensembles
ranging from local to international in personnel throughout the United States,
Europe, Africa, and South America. He has performed with orchestras from
all over the United States including the Omaha Symphony, Nevada Symphony,
Las Vegas Philharmonic, Lexington Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Albany
Symphony, and most recently the Macon Symphony. Other musical ensembles
have included the Nevada Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Chamber Music Southwest,
New Music Ensemble, and The Mothers Big Band, to name but a few. He also
performed in and was assistant music director of the Las Vegas Percussion
Group.
Dr. Reddick has also been an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, a marimba soloist/clinician at numerous colleges throughout the country, and a featured artist/clinician at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, at the Nebraska Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society Day of Percussion, the World Percussion Festival in Bloomington, Indiana, the Atlanta International Band and Orchestra Conference, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Conference in Chicago, and most recently at the Atlanta Jazz Festival, performing with jazz legend Donald Byrd. Reddick can be heard Troppe Note Recordings and Smitty Records, in addition to several independent labels.
Dr. Reddick continues to pioneer the performance, composition, and pedagogy of the six-mallet independence technique for the marimba.
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April 8-11: The New York-based percussion quartet, So Percussion, will be in residency at GSU as a part of the Steve Reich 70th Birthday Festival.
The GSU School of Music, in conjunction with the Rialto Center for the Performing Arts, and Bent Frequency new music group, will be presenting a 3-evening mini festival celebrating the music of one the country's most famous and influential composers of the last half century, Steve Reich, in celebration of his 70th birthday. During the three events (outlined below) we will present a large amount of Reich's ground breaking percussion music, including his monumental work Drumming in its entirety.
Sunday,
8 April 2007, 8:00 pm, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery (290 MLK Dr.
SE)
Reich's electronic works and biographical film
Tuesday,
10 April 2007, 11:00 am, GSU School of Music (Aderhold Learning
Center rm. 405)
So Percussion will be presenting a master class on Reich's works for percussion,
with an emphasis on Drumming and phasing in particular. This will be free
and open to the public.
Tuesday,
10 April 2007, 8:00 pm, Rialto Center for the Performing Arts:
Drumming (1971) with So Percussion and the GSU Percussion Ensemble
Wednesday,
11 April 2007, 8:00 pm, Rialto Center for the Performing Arts:
Reich's Chamber music, including Nagoya Marimbas, Music for Pieces of Wood,
Clapping Music, Typing Music, and other works presented by Bent Frequency
and the GSU Percussion Ensemble.
Tickets are available at www.rialtocenter.org, please note that there is a significant discount to students, and for buying tickets to both performances at the Rialto. There will also be pre-concert discussions as well as receptions after the perfomances.
In addition, Dr. Stuart Gerber will be presenting a faculty percussion recital at Kopleff Recital Hall at GSU on Wednesday, 18 April 2007, at 7:30 pm. This recital will feature the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Atlanta's own Alvin Singleton, as well as Bela Bartok's groundbreaking Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. This recital is free and open to the public.
If
you would like any further information on any of the events listed above
please contact Dr. Stuart Gerber at (404)651-1317.
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Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, GA presents Emil Richards in clinic and concert on Thursday April 19th, 2007. Clinic at 4:00 and concert at 7:30. Both events will take place in the Fine Arts Auditorium. The clinic is free and the concert is $5.00.
For
more info: Stephen Primatic
primatst@mail.armstrong.edu
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Dr. Marcus Reddick
will present a faculty recital at Mercer University on April 3rd at
7:30pm at the Townsend School of Music, Fickling Recital Hall
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Liberty DeVitto Clinic
The GaPAS Chapter and Georgia Tech Percussion Program are proud to sponsor Liberty DeVitto at Georgia Tech Wednesday, April 19 at 7pm. - The clinic will take place at 7pm in the Couch Music Building Room 115.- Admission is FREE. Directions to the Couch Building. http://gtalumni.org/campusmap/ Metered parking is available around the building or check the website for visitor's parking areas.
Friday, 24 March. 7:30 am: the GSU Percussion Ensemble will be featured on FOX TV’s “Good Morning Atlanta.” We will be performing a traditional Brazilian batucada in preparation of the “Brazil in Atlanta” concert that evening.
Friday, 24 March 8:00 pm: the GSU Percussion Ensemble will perform a traditional Brazilian batucada on the “Celebrating a World of Rhythm and Dance: Brazil in Atlanta” concert at the Rialto Center for the Performing Arts on the GSU campus.
Saturday, 25 March 7:30 pm: Neal Giedd will be presenting his junior recital at the Kopleff Recital Hall on the GSU campus. He will be playing works by Jennifer Stasack, Marta Ptaszynska, and GSU composer Drew Dolan, plus a solo improvisation for bass drum.
Tuesday. 28 March 8:00 pm, Dr. Stuart Gerber (GSU Percussion coordinator), will be performing with the Thamyris New Music Ensemble at Emerson Hall on the Emory University campus in a concert entitled “Metal Gardens.” He will perform Kaija Saariaho’s Six Japanese Gardens for solo percussion and electronics. Also, Louis Andriessen’s Worker’s Union will be featured.
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Below: pictures from the 2005 Spring Day of Percussion
Tommy
Igoe, Tom Sherwood and Peter Erskine
GA PAS President, Chris Moore, Tom Sherwood, Bill Bachman, Tommy Igoe, Peter Erskine, GA Past President, Mike Lynch
Kell High School Percussion Ensemble, Sarah Dietrich, conductor
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Please check back for info on future events.