Check out our @uncgpoptech Drum Set & Percussion Showcase this coming Monday, April 24 at 12 pm! Students of @mckayla_p will share musical selections from drumming greats, as well as present their research. 🥁

Distinguished performer and truly one of his generation's leading percussionists, Michael Burritt is frequently in demand.  Having performed on four continents and more than forty states, Burritt currently serves as Professor of Percussion at the Eastman School of Music. He is only the third person in the history of the school to hold this position.  Mr. Burritt is also active as a composer and his works for solo marimba have become standard repertoire for the instrument.

Check out this recording of Burritt performing his own work White Pines.

This performance will feature the Southeastern Premiere of a work written for Michael by composer Joseph  Schwantner.  Michael will be joined by NC university percussion professors Eric Willie (UNCG), Lamon Lawhorn (A&T), McKayla Phillips (Shaw University), and Isaac Pyatt (UNC Pembroke) as well as pianist Inara Zandmane and Rebecca Marland on bass

The UNCG Percussion Ensemble will have our Spring 2023 concert on April 3, at 7:30p.m. in the Tew Recital Hall.

The concert will feature the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet with the Graduate Percussion Ensemble, and guest artist Doug Howard as soloist on Christopher Deane's "Titanic Days."

Annie Stevens, percussion
Andrea Venet, percussion
David Stewart Wiley, conductor

Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
Psathas: The All-Seeing Sky US Premiere
Nielsen: Helios Overture, Op. 17
Holst: Selections from “The Planets”

Dr. Brady Spitz, host

I will be presenting at PASIC 2022 for the inaugural University Pedagogy Committee Workshop / Presentations on Percussion Pedagogy. My clinic will take place on Thursday, November 10 at 11:45 am; “Targeted Applied Lessons Instruction for Undergraduate Music Education Majors.”

“An Introduction to Commonly Used Hand Drums for Educators” will be my clinic presented at the 2022 NCMEA Convention in Winston Salem, NC.