Rowan University Percussion

09/15/2017

Here I am with Millville High sophomore Brooke Jablonski, the newest member of the class of 2024!!

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08/01/2017

Rowan University Percussion Alum Eric Carr was selected to play Tenors in the Commandant's Own United State's Marine Corp Drum and Bugle Corp, way to go Eric!!

https://rowanpercussion.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/rowan-alum-eric-carr-selected-for-marine-drum-and-bugle-corp/

Rowan University Percussion Alum Eric Carr was selected to play Tenors in the Commandant’s Own United State’s Marine Corp Drum and Bugle Corp, way to go Eric!!  

04/06/2017

Percussion studio in AC for New Jersey Music Educators Convention. At White House sub shop!!!!! A NJ institution.

03/28/2017

Awesome masterclass with Philadelphia Orchestra percussionist, Tony Orlando. Ethan Scully and the maestro playing Ravel's Bolero. Does it get any better than this? I don't think so!!!

03/07/2017

https://youtu.be/YH8iRiE1Rjo

02/27/2017

MARIMBA BAND tonight!!!!
It's going to be an awesome concert. Music by Mozart, Mendlessohn, Schubert, Joplin, Offenbach, Humperdinck, Kabalevsky and Schirripa. See you there.
8:00 PM Pfleeger Concert Hall.

02/14/2017

Congratulations to Rowan MM alumna (2006) Mika Godbole for her Grammy nomination (see Lloyd: Bonhoeffer below). WOW, I am so proud of her and now she brings a bit of her luster to our percussion history here at Rowan University. Way to go Mika!!

Best Choral Performance:
Himmerland — Elisabeth Holte, conductor (Marianne Reidarsdatter Eriksen, Ragnfrid Lie & Matilda Sterby; Inger-Lise Ulsrud; Uranienborg Vokalensemble)
Janáček: Glagolitic Mass — Edward Gardner, conductor; Håkon Matti Skrede, chorus master (Susan Bickley, Gábor Bretz, Sara Jakubiak & Stuart Skelton; Thomas Trotter; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Bergen Cathedral Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Choir Of Collegium Musicum & Edvard Grieg Kor)
Lloyd: Bonhoeffer — Donald Nally, conductor (Malavika Godbole, John Grecia, Rebecca Harris & Thomas Mesa; The Crossing)
WINNER: Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1 — Krzystof Penderecki, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, choir director (Nikolay Didenko, Agnieszka Rehlis & Johanna Rusanen; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir)
Steinberg: Passion Week — Steven Fox, conductor (The Clarion Choir)

02/03/2017

Rowan percussion sophomore, Garrett Davis, performed Gene Koshinski's Concerto for Marimba and Choir, in my masterclass yesterday. With the performance in early March, Garrett is right on schedule to knock this piece out of the park!! (baseball reference because spring training is right around the corner)

12/13/2016

12/13/2016

A Holiday Tradition continues with A Very Percussive Christmas concert in Wilson Hall lobby. front row with Prof. Dean Witten, Dylan Bader, second row, Sal Mazzotta, Dylan Cahill, Cool J Seenerine, Alia Rabaia, Emily Velez, Tim Williams, Dan Sullivan, Caroline Kubach, Alex Po***ck (guest guitar duo), back rows, Eric Zielonka, Alphonso Gonzalez, Ethan Scully, Jake Koester and Tyler Sarfert.

12/13/2016

Annual Holiday Tradition continues with a Very Percussive Christmas Concert in Wilson Hall lobby

...brutal...

12/09/2016

Justin Alexander talking with Rowan percussion students on Wednesday 12/7 before the world premiere of Adam Silverman's new drumset concerto and 12/9 Philadelphia Orchestra percussionist Tony Orlando teaching a class on Tchaikovsky 4th Symphony. The students were awesome throughout the whole week of demanding concerts and clinics. They are the best of the best!!!!