West Liberty University will host the Percussive Arts Society’s 2010 West Virginia Day of Percussion on Saturday, May 1st, 2010. This year we’ve DOUBLED the number of featured artists, performances, sponsors, and the FREE GIVEAWAYS! Percussionists, band directors, college professors, elementary, middle, high school, and college students, as well as family and friends are invited to the BIGGEST and BEST Day of Percussion in the state. It’s the only Day of Percussion endorsed by the Percussive Arts Society and it only happens ONCE a year. SO DON’T MISS IT! And did we mention the FREE GIVEAWAYS!
The Schedule:
9:00-9:50am, High School Solo Competition (FA326): Open to students enrolled in a WV high school.
9:00-9:50am, Collegiate Solo Competition(FA326): Open to students enrolled at a WV college/university.
10:00-10:50am, Featured Ensembles Rehearsals
11:00-11:50am, Jazz Improvisation-Vibes Clinic, Jay Ware (College Hall)
12:00-12:50pm, Lunch
1:00-1:50pm, Timpani Clinic, David Constantine (College Hall)
2:00-2:50pm, Wheeling Park High School Percussion Ensemble and WLU Panhandle Steel Band (College Hall)
3:00-3:50pm, Marimba Clinic, Kevin Bobo (College Hall)
4:00-4:50pm, Dress Rehearsal for Evening Concert (College Hall)
5:00-5:50pm, Dinner
6:00pm, Evening Concert (College Hall), Featuring Kevin Bobo, David Constantine, Solo Competition Winners, and more!
Featured Artists/Clinicians:
Nationally and Internationally acclaimed marimbist and percussionist, Kevin Bobo is currently serving as Associate Professor of Music (Percussion) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Wichita State University where he studied with J.C. Combs and a master’s degree from Ithaca College where he studied with Gordon Stout. In addition to performing solo recitals, concertos and clinics at major universities and percussion festivals nation wide, Kevin has performed at several Percussive Arts Society International Conventions. He has also performed at the 19th, 26th & 29th Leigh Howard Stevens Summer Marimba Seminars in Asbury Park, New Jersey, the Bellingham Festival of Music in Bellingham, Washington, the Pzsaislis Music Festival in Kaunas, Lithuania, the PerKumania Festival in Paris, France, The Australian International Marimba Festival in Canberra, Australia, the 12th and 13th International Festivals of Percussion in San Juan, Puerto Rico and the 11th International Days of Percussion in Valencia, Spain. He has also performed as a soloist in Italy, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Singapore, and at the 3rd International Seminar of Percussion in Mexico City, Mexico.
In addition to being an active performer, Kevin is also a widely played composer with numerous compositions published through Studio 4 Music, PercMaster Publications and Keyboard Percussion Publications. He has also been recorded on several albums with internationally recognized artists as well as having released two solo marimba recordings Marimba Jambalaya and Chronicles. In 2007, Malletech released the Kevin Bobo signature line of marimba mallets and his book Permutations for the Advanced Marimbist. Kevin has been performing on Malletech marimbas since 1997 and Zildjian Cymbals since 2001. He most recently signed with Evans Drumheads in 2009.
David Constantine, a native Oregonian, is currently Percussionist & Assistant Principal Timpanist with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra (SSO). Prior to joining the SSO, Mr. Constantine was Principal Timpanist of the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra and was Percussionist with the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with the Eugene and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras and under the batons of Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Marin Alsop, Jack Everly, Giancarlo Guerrero, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Daniel Hege, Kevin Noe, James Paul, Murry Sidlin, Ron Spigelman, Leonard Slatkin, Stephen Smith, and Gerhardt Zimmerman.
In addition to his orchestral playing, Mr. Constantine is a prolific solo and chamber percussionist. He has been awarded top prizes in international competition both in the United States and Western Europe. As a solo timpanist he has premiered works by Heinz Holliger and Gilles Schuehmacher. As a chamber performer he has taken part in the premiere performances of David Crumb’s “Hearing Bells” and David Johnson’s “The Oregon Variations”, both in 2005. Mr. Constantine can be heard with the Oregon Percussion Ensemble in a performance of Meyer Kupferman’s “Percussion Symphony” on Soundspells records.
David is proud to be a performing artist and clinician for Innovative Percussion, Evans and Sabian.
Jay Ware is an award-winning performing artist, educator, composer, and arranger whose consummate versatility has garnered the praise of musical giants such as David Baker and Eric Ewazen. His performing/recording credits include: Grammy Award winner Dee Stewart, Pulitzer-Prize winner Gunther Schuller, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Mary Wilson and The Supremes, Emmy winner and Jazz legend David Baker, Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame member Bob Becker, Grammy Award nominees Jack Wilkins and Chuck Owen, opera diva and Grammy Award contributing artist Marietta Simpson, The Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Mike Vax, Rick Simerly, Steve Houghton, Carroll Dashiell Jr., Tom Walsh, Everett Greene, Pat Harbison, Dominic Spera, Dalores King Williams, Luke Gillespie, the Broyhill Chamber Orchestra, the New York Brass Quintet, the Bloomington Pops Orchestra, and many others. He has performed at conventions and festivals including the American Bandmasters Association, Music Educators National Conference, Percussive Arts Society Days of Percussion, New Trier Jazz Festival, Spoleto Music Festival, Appalachian Summer Music Festival, as well as special appearances on various television and radio broadcasts. In 2007, he founded the Jay Ware Quintet (JWQ), which has performed throughout the nation, including several residencies at universities and jazz festivals along the east coast. Jay is an endorsing artist for Remo drumheads and world percussion, Yamaha concert percussion and drum sets, and Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets.
Sponsors for the 2010 PAS Day of Percussion:
For more information, please contact Jay Ware (site organizer) – jware@westliberty.edu