Grover Pro Endorser Dr. Bill Shaltis has been appointed Assistant Professor of Percussion at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, University of Memphis, starting fall 2016.
In addition to teaching at the University, Bill is the timpanist with the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra (and has to put up with my bad jokes during rehearsals). Bill had studied at the Boston Conservatory and is a protege of timpani scholar John Grimes.
From all of us here at Grover Pro...CONGRATULATIONS BILL!
Click the image below to view a sample of Bill's insightful approach to Vic Firth's Etude #1 from "The Solo Timpanist":
I met drummer Fred Eltringham last summer while playing a concert which featured music super-star Sheryl Crow. Fred provided the rock solid backbeat and rhythmic drive behind Sheryl. Fred and I got to talking after rehearsal and I offered to send him one of our Studio-Pro tambourines for his recording work. Fred just wrote that our Studio Pro model can be heard on Vince Gill's latest recording. In addition, our tambo can be heard on a new Brandy Clark recording due out in June. Also coming out (with our tambourine on it) is a new record by Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle, but you'll have to wait until June for this one also... All the production elves here like to hear that their...
Julie Davila, Amy Smith & Julie Hill - collectively known as the Caixa Trio - are performing in the Festival International de Cajon Peruano.
These three outstanding women are not only top professional percussionists, but, they are leaders in the field of music education as well.
Talk about "Roll" models... more info about them at caixatrio.com
Caixa Trio - Amy Smith, Julie Hill & Julie Davila
We recently received a very nice note from our dear friend, and one of the world's preeminent solo percussionists, Dame Evelyn Glennie. She wrote, "I’ve been enjoying using your wonderful anvils for a project I and two others have instigated called the ‘Sounds of Science’!"
Hey Evelyn - here's our suggestion for the lyric:
"The Sounds of Science"
Hello anvil my old friend
I've come to pound on you again
Those guys at Grover really know their stuff
At times I feel I cannot get enough
Of their products, that I love so much to play
Everyday
They know the Sounds
Of Science
Thanks for being a long standing advocate for our products Dame Evelyn!
Join celebrated percussion group "line upon line" for the first installment of a 2-weekend, mini-festival celebrating the 80th birthday of one of America’s greatest musical minds, Steve Reich. Steve Reich has been called "our greatest living composer" (The New York Times), "America’s greatest living composer" (The Village VOICE), “...the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker) and “...among the great composers of the century” (The New York Times). "There are just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them," states The Guardian (London). Program includes: Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (1973), Electric Counterpoint (1987), Sextet (1984) WHERE? Dougherty Arts Center - 1110 Barton...
