Onondaga Community College Indoor Marching
Percussion Ensemble
2004 IMPE at the CNY Day of
Percussion
An Indoor Marching Percussion Ensemble borrows its instrumentation from outdoor groups such as marching bands and drum corps. The indoor performance venue is usually a gym floor. A large variety of mallet percussion instruments are used to provide the melody and a full compliment of battery percussion (snare drums, multi-tenors, bass drums, and cymbals) march and play behind them. Performance locations include contests and sporting events in the Syracuse and Rochester areas.
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 14 years of age and older with a background in percussion are invited
to audition.
This year’s fee is $125.00
for current OCC Students and all others.
There is an audition fee for all prospective members of $25.00 due at
the first rehearsal attended. The
remaining $100.00 will be billed by the college. All checks should be made out to OCC.
Wednesday
nights 6:00 – 9:00
Rehearsals are held at OCC in
the
The First 2012 REHEARSAL
IS January 18, 2012!!
Show Dates:
This year’s show is: “TBA”
We will finish our season
with a performance at the CNY Day Of Percussion on April 28th - it should be a great
experience for all involved. As always, it will be high energy and a lot
of fun!
Faculty
Robyn Launt holds a Bachelor’s of Music degree from the Crane
School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and a Master’s of Science in Education for
Special Education from SUNY Cortland. She was a member of the DCI Division I
Drum and Bugle Corps the Colts (2001), and DCA Drum and Bugle Corps the
Brigadiers (2004- present). Robyn has taught various marching bands and winter
percussion ensembles in Central NY. She is a former music teacher at Roxboro
Road Middle School for the Cicero- North Syracuse School District and on the
percussion staff for the Brigadiers.
Rob Bridge--Rob Bridge--is the
Professor of Percussion at Onondaga Community College. In 2010 he performed a percussion concert and
worked with drumlines in Shenyang, China as part of
the Shenyang International Percussion Festival.
In 2011 he traveled to Bankok Thailand to
serve as a percussion judge for the "All Thailand Marching
Competition." His band arrangements
have been performed by marching bands in NY, TX, MI, MS, MD, IL, and IA. His has arranged for drum corps in NY, IA,
WI, Canada, England and China. His
original compositions are published by Warner Brothers and Kendor. His degrees include: DMA, Eastman School of
Music; MM Southern Methodist University; BME, University of North Texas. Former
percussion staff: Brigadiers Drum & Bugle Corps; Madison Scouts Drum &
Bugle Corps; Nite Express Drum & Bugle Corps.
Former marching member (Snare Drum): Phantom Regiment Drum & Bugle Corps,
1986 and the University of North Texas Drumline.
Contact Rob Bridge for more information: