Percussionist and blogger, Sean Kennedy, recently interviewed me for his podcast series The Enharmonic. I am thrilled to be included with a distinguished roster of musicians who have been interviewed! People Sean has featured include jazz greats Gordon Goodwin and Clayton Cameron, legendary session musician Hal Blaine, and many more...
Sean asked some thoughtful questions and I was happy to talk about my experiences, including working with composers John Williams, Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland.
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Marking his fifth season with the Tallahassee Symphony, Grover Pro artist Dr. Ben Fraley has recently won the position of Principal Percussionist with the Northwest Florida Symphony commencing his fourth year teaching at Troy University, where he instructs applied percussion, marching band and percussion methods.
In addition, his multi-percussion duet, Shh, was published by Tapspace Publications.
Be on the watch for his duo, Sources Duo, who are planning a tour of performances, clinics, and master classes in Kentucky and Tennessee for April!
We are pleased to welcome Tony Steve to our roster of endorsing artists. Tony teaches percussion and world music at Jacksonville University. He has performed with the Jacksonville Symphony, Israeli Festival Orchestra, Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, North Eastern Pennsylvania Symphony, Greenwich Symphony, and Bridgeport Symphony as a percussionist. He has toured with “A Chorus Line” in Europe, appeared in Korea as marimba soloist with the Brooklyn Percussion Ensemble, and performed as percussionist at Madison Square Garden for “ A Christmas Carol”. In addition, he has worked with Henry Mancini, Lou Rawls, Sheri Lewis and The Xaiver Cugat Orchestra. His collaboration, “ The Blue Jay Opuscule” with print maker Barry Wilson, combined the world of printmaking and music into a...
If you have not yet checked out Berklee Professor Jon Hazilla's Brush Control - The Key To Mastering Brushes, this is your chance. It has just entered the second edition which means the first run sold out! WATCH JON DEMONSTRATE his masterful brush technique! That's a GROVER CUSTOM "BOP KIT" that we custom made for Jon.
"You’re reviewing a tambourine? Have you lost it, man?" Yeah, that’s what I was dealing with around the office while wailing away on this tambourine. In the spirit of full disclosure, I was a Percussion Performance Major in college and was schooled in the proper techniques of tambourine playing. Later in life, I was fortunate enough to play drums alongside the great percussionist Tom Roady, who passed away a few years ago. Tom could make a tambourine sing like no one I have ever heard or watched. When he picked up a tambourine, it was as if it became a living being. And during my years playing with him, I picked up a thing or two about the art of...
