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Experienced performers; Experienced teachers. Study with five teachers whose combined annual performances number well over 300 each year! Scott Lang, Percussion Coordinator • Principal Timpanist/Percussionist, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra • Performed 37 Broadway tours including: Wicked, West Side Story, Evita, The Producers, Shrek, Dreamgirls, 42nd Street, Spamalot, Little Mermaid, Hairspray • Recorded 21 albums with Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras • Performances with: Tony Bennett, Kristin Chenoweth, Peter Frampton, James Galway, Dizzy Gillespie, Branford Marsalis, Luciano Pavarotti, Doc Severinsen, and many more • Over 3,000 performances in North America including Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center Michael Culligan, Percussion Instructor • Associate Principal Percussionist, Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras • 2010-2015: Regularly performed with Pittsburgh Symphony, including several tours plus performances at Carnegie Hall, the BBC Proms, and the Berlin Philharmonie • Previously appointed 2nd percussion in West Virginia Symphony and Canton Symphony • Studied with renowned players and pedagogues: Alan Abel, Chris Deviney, Angie Nelson, Chris Allen, Jeremy Branson, Andy Reamer, Ed Stephen Stan Ginn, Steel Band and Latin Percussion • Studied privately with teachers in New York City, San Francisco, and Havana, Cuba • Past performances include: Louie Bellson, Mary Wilson and the Supremes, the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Pan Ramajay, Dr. Loco’s Rockin’ Jalapeño Band, Songo, Janet Pressley, Bailando Desnudo, Donna Summer, Monk, Phil Hawkins, and the 4Track All-Stars • Currently performs with Phil DeGreg’s Brasilia, Dave Hawkins and Celtic Core, blues guitarist Noah Wotherspoon, and his own groups Pancaribbean and Mambo Diablo Michael Meloy, Jazz Drum Set • Professional playing career spanning 35 years • Toured internationally with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and nationally with entertainer Red Skelton • Past performances include: Eddie Harris, Barney Kessel, comedians Bob Hope, Rodney Dangerfield and Phyllis Diller, and vocal groups the 5th Dimension and the Serendipity Singers Erwin Stuckey, Jazz Vibraphone • Director of Jazz and Percussion programs, School for Creative and Performing Arts (Cincinnati) • Performed extensively in the United States and South America • Internationally recognized true multi-instrumentalist (piano/jazz organ, percussion, brass) • Past performances include: John Blake, Frank Foster, Joshua Redmond, Terrel Stafford, Marlon Jordan, Pharez Witted, Mary Wilson (Motown Supremes), Jeff Coffin of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, James Carter, and steel drum virtuoso Othello Molineaux PERCUSSION AREA nku.edu/percussion nku.edu/music
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Experienced performers; Experienced teachers.Study with five teachers whose combined annual performances number well over 300 each year!
Scott Lang, Percussion Coordinator• Principal Timpanist/Percussionist, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra• Performed 37 Broadway tours including: Wicked, West Side Story, Evita, The Producers, Shrek,
Dreamgirls, 42nd Street, Spamalot, Little Mermaid, Hairspray• Recorded 21 albums with Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras• Performances with: Tony Bennett, Kristin Chenoweth, Peter Frampton, James Galway, Dizzy Gillespie,
Branford Marsalis, Luciano Pavarotti, Doc Severinsen, and many more• Over 3,000 performances in North America including Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center
Michael Culligan, Percussion Instructor• Associate Principal Percussionist, Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras• 2010-2015: Regularly performed with Pittsburgh Symphony, including several tours plus
performances at Carnegie Hall, the BBC Proms, and the Berlin Philharmonie• Previously appointed 2nd percussion in West Virginia Symphony and Canton Symphony• Studied with renowned players and pedagogues: Alan Abel, Chris Deviney, Angie Nelson, Chris
Allen, Jeremy Branson, Andy Reamer, Ed Stephen
Stan Ginn, Steel Band and Latin Percussion• Studied privately with teachers in New York City, San Francisco, and Havana, Cuba• Past performances include: Louie Bellson, Mary Wilson and the Supremes, the Kentucky Symphony
Orchestra, Pan Ramajay, Dr. Loco’s Rockin’ Jalapeño Band, Songo, Janet Pressley, Bailando Desnudo, Donna Summer, Monk, Phil Hawkins, and the 4Track All-Stars
• Currently performs with Phil DeGreg’s Brasilia, Dave Hawkins and Celtic Core, blues guitarist Noah Wotherspoon, and his own groups Pancaribbean and Mambo Diablo
Michael Meloy, Jazz Drum Set• Professional playing career spanning 35 years• Toured internationally with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and nationally with entertainer Red Skelton• Past performances include: Eddie Harris, Barney Kessel, comedians Bob Hope, Rodney Dangerfield
and Phyllis Diller, and vocal groups the 5th Dimension and the Serendipity Singers
Erwin Stuckey, Jazz Vibraphone• Director of Jazz and Percussion programs, School for Creative and Performing Arts (Cincinnati)• Performed extensively in the United States and South America• Internationally recognized true multi-instrumentalist (piano/jazz organ, percussion, brass)• Past performances include: John Blake, Frank Foster, Joshua Redmond, Terrel Stafford, Marlon
Jordan, Pharez Witted, Mary Wilson (Motown Supremes), Jeff Coffin of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, James Carter, and steel drum virtuoso Othello Molineaux
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Five Percussion Faculty • Opportunity • Well-Rounded Training• Each student, over time, will study with each of the five NKU percussion faculty in their areas of expertise. We
believe that undergrads should learn to be well-rounded players to become better musicians and have the ability to take a variety of opportunities throughout their career.
• The arts-rich Cincinnati/Northern KY area provides students ample opportunities to see world-class performers on a regular basis. With 52 high schools in the area, ALL of our students who want to teach local drumlines or teach privately, do so. Through faculty connections, top students often get a chance to perform at a professional level. ALL lessons, ensembles, and courses are taught by professionals; no TAs!
• NKU Music Degrees include: Bachelor of Music in Performance (Instrumental, Voice, Piano Pedagogy, or Jazz Studies); Bachelor of Music Education (Instrumental, Choral/Vocal); Bachelor of Music in Composition; Bachelor of Arts in Music (Audio Production, or Liberal Studies); Music Minor. NKU Music also welcomes non-majors to most ensembles. Arrangements can be made for NKU students to march in the University of Cincinnati Marching Band.
ContactScott LangPercussion Area [email protected] • (859) 572-5410
EnsemblesPercussion Ensemble performs works written exclusively for percussion in a chamber music format as well as for large ensemble including those of contemporary and traditional composers, and time-honored music of various world cultures. Open to all percussion students by audition and performs an on-campus concert each semester.
Steel Band explores the music of steel drums from the traditional music of Trinidad and Tobago to contemporary arrangements of popular music as well as symphonic music arranged for steel band. The Steel Band promotes superior ensemble and performance skills, performs a variety of concerts on and off campus, and is open to any NKU student by audition.
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