We close the year with a look back on the major accomplishments made by the Grover Pro team: • New Bantamweight Series Tambourines • New Pro Musical Anvils • New Tambourine Mounting Clamp • New Castanet Frame • New Studio Pro Tambourine • New Brass…
The college-bound percussionist can face some exciting challenges as they prepare for a professional career. Percussion crosses all musical boundaries and percussion students have the widest possible vocabulary of instruments and musical genres to master – more than any other instrumentalist. Although some students don’t…
We just received updates from Danny and Beth Gottlieb. Beth is currently playing with the “Disney Candlelight Orchestra” along with fellow Grover Endorser Kirk Gay. Danny Gottlieb is one the most recognized drummers in the world. He is best known as the original drummer in…
I’m often asked if there are different personalities among musicians who play different instruments. It is an extremely difficult question to answer; after all, it is hard to stop laughing when one is laughing that hard! To explain this to someone who has spent little…
Ensemble Evolution is an international ensemble exploring the future of percussion through composition, education and technology. Taking elements of jazz and contemporary classical music, Ensemble Evolution creates musical experiments by incorporating improvisation, new media, and music technology into their original concept of a 21st century…
Casey Cangelosi is a rising new star on the percussion horizon. He is making quite a name for himself as a “triple threat” – composer, performer and educator. I was so impressed with Casey’s work that I asked him to write a piece for some…
Many at PASIC 2013 got a first look at our new line of seamless timpani mallets. The mallets got over-the-moon reviews, and the inquiries have been nonstop! Our ChromaTone™ mallets will be available in January 2014, but here’s a teaser: ChromaTone™ mallets feature: Seamless construction…
I started teaching at the University of North Carolina Wilmington right after finishing my Master’s degree at Indiana University in 2012. While I wasn’t expecting to get back into academia so quick, it was enlightening to get the teacher’s perspective, especially in a smaller school…
