Rutgers University Percussion

04/20/2022

Please join us for our spring percussion ensemble program!

🥁🎶

It's never not a day to wanna hear some drum music. 😏

11/21/2021

Here's the live stream link for our concert today! Starts at 2:00 pm! 🥁

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11/19/2021

Be there or be ◼️

You can also watch the live-stream!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CWeB8Nmr1t3/?utm_medium=copy_link

05/06/2021

In case you missed our 2021 Spring Percussion Ensemble Concert...now you can watch it over and over again!

https://youtu.be/JAY7WGp_RB0

We will see you in the fall!

05/05/2021

In case you missed our Afro-Cuban Percussion Ensemble online broadcast! You can watch it again and again!

04/24/2021

If you missed the first announcement - here's another one! Tomorrow at 5:00 pm!

https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93603710727?pwd=NlpIQW5mQ3llN0MybWp0UWZtcEtidz09

https://www.facebook.com/2298480257139906/posts/2915616688759590/

Rutgers University Afro-Cuban Percussion Ensemble concert tomorrow at 5p. I’m super proud of my students, they worked so hard this semester, and their efforts have paid off! Congratulations!

04/22/2021

Please join us via zoom link for our Afro-Cuban Percussion Ensemble Concert, this Sunday at 5:00 pm! 🥁🎉

We had so much fun recording this concert for you all because WE GOT TO PLAY MUSIC TOGETHER IN PERSON!

https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93603710727?pwd=NlpIQW5mQ3llN0MybWp0UWZtcEtidz09

04/15/2021

Please join us this Sunday at 2:00 pm as we present our Spring Concert! 🥁

https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93603710727?pwd=NlpIQW5mQ3llN0MybWp0UWZtcEtidz09

04/11/2021

We got to play percussion, TOGETHER!

Last Friday - members of our Afro-Cuban Percussion Ensemble recorded their Spring performance! Thank you to our wonderful Professor Javier Diaz Percussion for seeing us through this semester and this recording session. We love learning so much from you!

*These recordings were in accordance with CDC social distancing guidelines.

Stay tuned for information on the finished video!

04/04/2021

From our marimbas to yours, Happy Easter!

03/08/2021

It's  and these are the women of the Rutgers' Percussion studio!

Pam Ferrali (Undergraduate), Claire McCarthy (Masters), and Mikayla Bertelsen (DMA)!

What a wonderful day to celebrate women close to home and around the world!

02/22/2021

Introducing Professor Ian Sullivan! Professor Sullivan is the Principal Timpanist of the New York City Ballet Orchestra. He also performs with the Metropolitan Opera percussion section. He has performed with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at Damrosch Park for a broadcast of “Live at Lincoln Center” and at the Tanglewood Music Center. He has appeared as principal timpanist with the, Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in Kuala Lumpur. He has appeared on numerous occasions at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Seiji Ozawa Hall, playing with various orchestras and ensembles.

As a soloist Ian has performed major works in high-profile New York venues, including the Carnegie Hall premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s Des Canyons Aux Étoiles under Maestro Robert Spano. An avid new music performer, Ian has performed with AXIOM Ensemble, Trinity - Novus NY, and Ensemble ACJW in venues such as (le) poisson rouge, SubCulture, Galapagos Art Space and the Guggenheim Museum.
He has spent summers playing in Festival Orchestras in Verbier (Switzerland), Tanglewood Music Center, Pacific Music Festival (Japan) and the Aspen Music Festival. Ian is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and holds a BM from the University of Michigan and a MM from the Juilliard School. Rutgers University Percussion is so happy to have your time and talents!