The commitment to excellence in the TCU School of Music Percussion Division can be seen in the success of its Percussion Orchestra and Percussion Ensemble, which was chosen by blind audition to perform showcase concerts in 2005, 2008, 2011, 2015, and 2019 at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC). You also can explore the excitement of the Steel Band or the precision of the Marching Band Drumline. In 2018, he was presented the “Legacy in Education Award” by the YAMAHA Corporation of America.Today, the highly selective Texas Christian University Percussion Studio offers a distinctive combination of private instruction and a variety of performing ensembles, including the internationally recognized Percussion Orchestra and Percussion Ensemble. As an educator and author, David served on the faculty of the McNally Smith College of Music for 27 years, authored Mastering the Tables of Time (“#1 Educational Book,” Modern Drummer 2009 Readers Poll) and is an advisor to the Percussive Arts Society Drumset Committee and Drumset Editor for the PAS Percussive Notes magazine. A student of masters Elliot Fine, Alan Dawson, Max Roach, Jeff Hamilton, Chad Wackerman, Ignacio Berroa, and others, he has built an eclectic musical reputation performing with artists from the worlds of jazz, rock, R&B, Broadway, motion picture and television including the Airmen of Note, Jackson Browne, George Clinton, Sheryl Crow, Herb Ellis, the Minnesota Orchestra, Keb’ Mo, New Kids On The Block, Danny Seraphine, and Doc Severinsen and is currently the musical director for Emmy-winner Shaun Johnson’s Big Band Experience.
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He regularly performs at international festivals throughout the United States and has been invited to perform in Asia, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, and throughout South America.ĭavid Stanoch has worked as a professional drumset artist since age 12. On the congas, Latin Beat magazine calls Orlando’s “solid conga drumming…a percussive pillar.” A sought-after performing and recording artist, Orlando has collaborated with music legends of his generation including Liam Teague, Darin Atwater, and Giovanni Hidalgo. As a marimbist, Orlando unites his solid classical training and Latin American background to create a powerful combination of rhythm and music, as evidenced by his the dual distinction to have been the first marimbist to receive the Artist Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory of Music and to win the Yale Gordon Concerto Competition.
He has since developed an international career as a marimbist and percussionist. Raised in the traditions of Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican music, Orlando Cotto learned to play the conga drums when he was just five years old. He also performs regularly on steel pans as a soloist or with his band KAISO! John has performed clinics and rudimental recitals for Days of Percussion and marching percussion events all over the United States, Canada, England, Argentina, Brazil and Puerto Rico. Throwdown's Rudimental Remedies, The Drummer’s Rudimental Reference Book, and several other marching percussion ensemble pieces, street beats, and rudimental snare drum solos published through Row-Loff Productions.
John is currently the Director of Percussion Studies at The University of Southern Mississippi and is the author of Dr. John served as the Percussion Caption Head to the Phantom Regiment from 1987 to 1989 and has performed with and instructed five PAS National Champion drum lines including The University of Louisiana at Lafayette and The University of North Texas. During that time, he won several individual snare drum titles including the Percussive Arts Society National Championship and the Drum Corps Midwest Championship. Throwdown” Wooton began his career in the snare line with the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps from 1981 to 1984.
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