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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE

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Time:

Thursday
December, 18, 2014
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Location:

Ballroom W190

Category

PERCUSSION ENSEMBLES

Conductor

Julia Gaines and Megan Arns

Performer Details

Performer Bio Synopsis

The University of Missouri Percussion Ensemble performs music from all genres including percussion orchestra, unconducted quartets, and steel band music. With an active new music composition program at MU, they regularly perform music written by the faculty and students in the School of Music. The ensemble has performed twice at the Missouri Music Educators Association conference under the direction of Dr. Gaines. They also have been invited twice to perform as the featured ensemble at the Mid-Missouri Percussive Arts Trophy competition. This is their first invitation to perform at the Midwest Clinic.

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE

Conductor's Bio

Dr. Julia Gaines is the Director of Percussion Studies at the University of Missouri. She received her DMA from the University of Oklahoma, her MM as well as a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, and her BM from the Lawrence Conservatory of Music. She has performed internationally in Russia, Japan, England, Wales, Brazil, and China and gave her solo debut in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in March 2007. Recent performances include a solo recital at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and guest soloist with the Kansas City Youth Percussion Ensemble at the National Conference of Percussion Pedagogy. As a pedagogue, she published her first book, Sequential Studies for Four-Mallet Marimba – Level 1, as part of a series dedicated toward the beginning and intermediate marimbist. She presented fundamental four-mallet marimba clinics at PASIC 2013 in Indianapolis and the Midwest Band Clinic in Chicago as a result of the popularity of this book. A member of the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) for twenty+ years, she currently serves on their Board of Directors and is an Associate Editor for Percussive Notes with the primary responsibility of Review Editor. She proudly endorses Vic Firth sticks and mallets, Pearl/Adams percussion, Sabian cymbals, and Remo drumheads. Megan's bio:

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