Central New York Day of Percussion 2007

Vinnie Ludovico & Moyuba – Vinnie will be demonstrating various types of Afro-Cuban drumming: Batá; Rumba; etc. Vinnie has performed all over the country as a member of “Masters of Reality.” Since returning to Syracuse, he has distinguished himself as one of the premier hand drumming experts in Central New York. His studies with John Amira and Bobby Sanabria, as well as visits to Puerto Rico, have set him apart from his peers. He is both an excellent performer and an excellent teacher and we are honored that he will be visiting OCC and sharing his knowledge.

Moyuba is a percussion trio featuring Vinnie Ludovico, Jennifer Vacanti and Rob Bridge.

HS Drumlines

East Rochester Drumline

The East Rochester Drumline exists to provide an exciting and educational experience in music to those students who are percussion majors, those who are new to percussion, and those who are new to instrumental music. Oh, and to rock.

Drumline is a major part of Percussion Ensemble, a full-time, full-credit course at East Rochester High School that was split four years ago from the high school band. In addition to working as the Drumline, we study a number of other areas in the field of percussion including concert percussion, mallets, drumset, and ethnic drumming styles. Selected students learn concert band percussion parts and rehearse and perform with the Wind Ensemble. The Drumline currently marches 5 snares, 2 quints, 6 basses, and 3 cymbals, with 7 students in the auxiliary.

For the first time, the ERHS Drumline is competing in the New York State Percussion Circuit, a division of Winter Guard International. Our show is based on the music of System of a Down, AND features battery-intensive arrangements of Toxicity, Question, and Hypnotize. We are proud to have hosted the East Rochester Percussion Showcase on March 10, and to be featured in a March 4 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle article on the Hilton show.

Jordan Elbridge Winter Drumline 2007

“THE STORM”

The Jordan Elbridge Winter Drumline is proud to present their 2007 show “The Storm”. The eagles have been active participants in the New York State Percussion Circuit since 1997, and continue to emphasize putting on a quality show for their audiences wherever they go. The J-E Drumline has also participated in WGI contests as the 2004 WGI North Atlantic Champions as well as making finals at the Northeast regional last year and participating in their first ever World Championship competition in Dayton Ohio last year. This year the Eagles traveled to Coatesville, PA where they made finals in WGI Regional contest.

This year’s staff includes:

Jessica Bogart – Pit

AJ Mann – Visual design and instruction

Dan MacCollum and Chris Ganey – Co-directors/Battery

We would like to send a big Thank You to our wonderful support group consisting of friends, parents and alumni for all they do for us.

Now please sit back and experience

“The Storm”

Victor Blue Devils Percussion Ensemble

They will be performing the music from Cirque du Soleil Quidam. Quidam is a nameless passer-by, a solitary figure lingering on a street corner, a person rushing past. It could be anyone or anybody. Could be someone coming, going, living in our anonymous society. A member of the crowd, one of the silent majorities. The one who cries out, sings, and dreams within us all. This is the “Quidam” that Cirque de Soleil is celebrating.

Music design is by Kirk Gay and Ted Mascari

Visual design is by Mark Rider

The group is also instructed by Janelle Cama, Harrison Gordner, and Joe Taylor

The ensemble is under the direction of Ted Mascari

The Victor indoor percussion ensemble would like to thank the band parents and booster organization for all of their support.

Ladies and gentlemen, The Victor Indoor Percussion Ensemble.

OCC Indoor Marching Percussion Ensemble

The OCC Indoor Marching Percussion Ensemble is the defending New York State Percussion Circuit: College Division Champion!

The Onondaga Community College Indoor Marching Percussion Ensemble is a group of area all-stars. It provides the Indoor Marching Percussion Ensemble experience to students whose high school or college does not offer such an ensemble. Students 15 years of age and older with a background in percussion are invited to audition.

This year’s show is titled: “Four: A New Hope!”

4 (four) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5

Four is the only number in the English language for which the number of letters in its name is equal to the number itself. This is also true in several other languages.

Four is the smallest composite number that is equal to the sum of its prime factors. As a consequence of this, it is the smallest Smith number.

In American football, 4 is today most commonly identified with the jersey number of Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre. Once Favre retires, the Packers are expected to retire Favre's jersey. This will cause 4 to be the first number to be retired by all the major professional sports franchises in a single U.S. state (Wisconsin) as the Milwaukee Brewers have retired the number for Paul Molitor and the Milwaukee Bucks have retired it in honor of Sidney Moncrief.

But, FOURget all that! We FOURsee a FOURtunate FOURay into the world of Number FOUR.

FOUR!

Lee Caron

Over the past four years, Lee Caron has gained recognition as a traditional rudimental snare drum specialist. Hailing from Fairfield, Connecticut, Lee was exposed to fife and drum corps at a very early age. At age 9, he began rudimental drum lessons with Jay Toumey and performed with local fife and drums corps. This grew into an impressionable interest in all aspects of percussion and led to several years of training in percussion in Bridgeport, Connecticut with Jim Royle.

Upon studying at the Hartt School of Music and the Boston Conservatory, Lee was able to work alongside percussionists such as Benjamin Toth, Alexander Lepak, David Samuels, Glen Valez, Patrick Hollenbeck, Nancy Zeltsman, and Sal Rabbio. He also studied privately with Neil Grover and Duncan Patton. During this time he became a member of the Connecticut Patriots Fife and Drum Corps from Plainville, Connecticut and was under the tutelage of Paul Cormier, placing first in numerous rudimental snare drum contests throughout the North East.

Once collegiate training in percussion had ended, he won a position in the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps 3rd US INF (escort to the President) in Washington D.C. His travels take him regularly to Basel, Switzerland where he performs in the festival of "Fasnacht" and studies Swiss rudimental drumming with Albert Bachmann, a protégé of Alfonse Grieder who was a student of the famous Fritz Burger.

In addition to his rudimental drumming, Lee performs with orchestras and in music theatre productions around Boston, Massachusetts, where he now resides and works as a free-lance percussionist, educator, and as a member of the Middlesex County Volunteers Fife and Drum Corps. In August of 2007, Mr. Caron will be performing in the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Edinburgh, Scotland with the Middlesex County Volunteers, which will be the first American fife and drum corps to ever perform at this prestigious event.

Tony Verderosa

Tony Verderosa has developed a groundbreaking live show remixing Breakbeats, Drum 'n' Bass, Hip Hop and Nu Jazz. Voted #1 Electronic Drummer in Drum! Magazines readers poll. In a scene dominated by Turntables, Tony has chosen to make his mark using Electronic drums, Samplers and Vocoders live on stage. He is a featured artist along with Moby, Busta Ryhmes, Kid Rock, David Bowie and others at www.Mixman.com where you can download interactive versions of his music (search under his stage name VFX).

His most recent project involves recording acoustic drums and remixing on the new John Petrucci Solo CD "Suspended Animation" (Guitarist for Dream Theater). He has also just released his new Solo Cd called VFX Vol 2, available at www.tonyverderosa.com.

Over the years, Tony has performed and recorded with Coldcut, Underworld, The Brecker Brothers, Sinead O'Connor, Philippe Saisse, Dream Theaters John Petrucci and Angelique Kidjo among many others. He has been interviewed in Musician magazine, XLR8R, Modern Drummer, CBS Up to the Minute News, NBC's Today Show, Fox TV News, BBC TV, and a variety of radio and TV shows in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan. He also has a full line of Sabian cymbals and Promark drumsticks that bear his signature and design features.

Tony has helped to redefine the drummers role in contemporary music. Tony explains, I am a classically trained percussionist and composer. Why should I limit myself to playing just drum grooves given the flexibility of electronic drums? These drums enable me to combine my passion for Djing, remixing, composing, playing piano and drumming."

Tony V. also works closely with Yamaha engineers in Japan on research and development for many of their digital instruments. He is a Premier Artist with AMD and Stienberg, featured recently in a global ad campaign along with Alan Parsons and Peter Frampton, featured in Mix Magazine, Remix Magazine, Electronic Musician and many other publications.

Tony resides in NYC where he owns a music company called Thwak! which is helping to re-define how artists create, distribute and market music to a global audience. Tony has also recently authored 3 new books on Electronic music with Hal Leonard Publications as well as a DVD video that documents his innovative approach to music performance.

Pat Shrieves

Timpanist Patrick Shrieves has been a member of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra since September 2005. Prior to being appointed Principal Timpanist of the SSO, he was the Principal Timpanist of the United States Air Force Concert Band and Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC. During his twenty-year career in the United States Air Force, he toured and performed in all fifty states and took part in overseas tours to Europe and South America. In addition to his duties as Timpanist, Patrick also performed as Auxiliary Percussionist with the Airmen of Note, the official Jazz Ensemble of the United States Air Force. With the Note, he had the opportunity to perform with legendary jazz artists such as Michael and Randy Brecker, Diane Schur, Arturo Sandoval and Paquito D’Rivera.

A native of Freehold, New Jersey, Mr. Shrieves studied at the Curtis Institute of Music where his mentors were Gerald Carlyss and Michael Bookspan. He also attended the Aspen Music Festival. In addition to his demanding Air Force schedule, Patrick worked as the Principal Timpanist of the Prince William Symphony and the Manassas Dance Company. He was also Adjunct Percussion Instructor at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Mr. Shrieves has been a featured soloist with the USAF Concert Band, the Prince William Symphony and numerous college and high school ensembles in the Washington DC area.

Now in his second season in Syracuse, Patrick has become an adjunct instructor at Onondaga Community College and has expanded his orchestra responsibilities by becoming the Assistant Personnel Manager of the SSO.

She-e Wu

She-e Wu is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of Performance and Jazz Faculties at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey where she directs the Rutgers Percussion Ensemble (winner of the 2004 Percussive Arts Society International Percussion Ensemble Competition) and coordinates the Percussion Program (Faculty includes Alan Abel and Chris Deviney).

Ms. Wu has appeared as a solo artist at the 25th, 27th and 30th Percussive Arts Society International Convention; Journées de la Percussion, NancyPhony Festival, perKumania festival, and PercuPassion Festival in France; Bach Symposium/Bach Variation Festival in Lincoln Center; Taiwan Connection concert at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center; International Percussion Festival and Interamerican Music and Arts Festival Orchestra in Puerto Rico; Festival Internacional de Percusion "Ritmo Vital 2001" and National Percussion Convention in Spain; Fukui Marimba Seminar in Japan; Giornate della Percussione in Italy; Taipei International Percussion Convention, and many other festivals. Ms. Wu has performed as guest recitalist and clinician at universities, colleges, conservatories in France, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, England, Germany as well American music institutions like Curtis Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music, Northwestern University, and at "Days of Percussion" throughout the United States.

Ms. Wu’s composition Blue Identity was written for Frederic Macarez and the Paris Conservatory CNR percussion ensemble. The piece was premiered in Paris at the Journées de la Percussion festival and the American premiere took place at the 27th Percussive Arts Society International Convention. K-PAX, a piece for marimba duo, was commissioned by the Taipei International Percussion Convention in 2002 and was premiered with marimbist Leigh Howard Stevens. She-e's latest composition - 21 Grams, for solo percussion and five percussionists, scheduled to be premiered in spring 2007. Ms. Wu has served as a judge for PAS Composition Competition (Large Percussion Ensemble) in 2005 and International Percussion Ensemble Competition (College) in 2006.

Originally a timpanist and percussionist in her home country of Taiwan, she came to the United States in 1991 to study at the University of North Texas where she earned her Bachelor and Master’s Music degrees. Her teachers include Dr. Robert Schietroma, Leigh Howard Stevens, Ed Soph, and Tzong-Ching Ju. She also studied composition with Dr. Joseph Klein.

She-e is a member of the Bob Becker Ensemble. Her recording of Eric Ewazen’s marimba concerto with the International Sejong Soloists was released on Resonator Records in 2003. Her solo marimba CD Snapshot and her recording with Flautist Bart Feller have both been released in 2006.

Ms. Wu is a clinician and a recitalist for the Innovative Percussion, Dynasty and Zildjian companies. Her new line of signature mallets with Innovative Percussion will be available in spring 2007.

Central New York All-Star Percussion Ensemble

Jim A’Hearn, director

Short Circuits..................        Lalo Davila

Millennium ......................       Chris Brooks

Members:
Jamie Claxton                          Liverpool CSD
T. K. Hayden                          Cato-Meridian CSD
Michael Kearney                     Baldwinsville CSD
Greg Lamica                            Central Square CSD
Steven Lowe                            Oneida CSD
Jamie Parmele                          Baldwinsville CSD
Andrew Quick                         East Syracuse-Minoa SCD
Julia Ross                                 Jamesville-Dewitt CSD
Brittany Sager                          Central Square CSD
Marco Schrippa                       East Syracuse-Minoa CSD
Chris Thomas                          Oneida CSD
Collin Thompson                     Baldwinsville CSD
Paul Weinel                             Sherburne-Earlville CSD
Sean Wighall                            Weedsport CSD
David Wood                            Liverpool CSD

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The following companies provided support and door prizes to today’s event!

Innovative Percussion

Percussive Arts Society

Onondaga Community College