Clinicians - UTAH CHAPTER

Dan Chamberland-Vibraphone Artist

Dan Chamberland is currently the Percussion Instructor for Waterford Private School. He has a Bachelors degree in Music Education from the University of Utah where he studied with Doug Wolf. He has a Masters in Percussion Performance from California State University- Northridge where he studied with Karen Irvin Pershing. He started his professional carreer in Los Angeles as a vibraphonist. He has played in many different jazz groups in L.A. and Seattle and for the last 15 years in the Salt Lake City area. Dan is composer and arranger for the Brazilian band "Zone Azul" which released a CD in 2006. Dan also composes music for percussion including several duets and ensemble pieces. He is currently working on a recording with his fusion band "Temporary Measures" due to come out later this month. In addition, Dan plays piano in the Bret Jackson quartet and drumset in the funk-fusion band "West Bench". He has studied jazz with a variety of great teachers including "Ladd Macintosh, John Magnussen, Steve Keen, Alan Michael, Brian Booth, and Dan Waldus. Dan is currently teaching privately at Backbeats drum shop and his home in Draper.

Danny Soulier-Timpani Artist

Mr. Danny Soulier graduated from Bingham High School in 1996. He later went on to recieve a bachelor's degree in percussion performance from the University of Utah in 2003 and a master's degree in percussion performance from Cleveland State University in 2006. His professional experience includes performances with the Utah Symphony, Sun Valley (ID) Summer Symphony, Wheeling (WV) Symphony, Ashland (OH) Symphony, Ohio Valley Symphony, Midland/Odessa (TX) Symphony, Ballet West, and Utah Chamber Artists. He has studied privately with George Brown, Doug Wolf, Tom Freer, Matthew Bassett, Tim Adams, and Mike Crusoe respectively of the Utah, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Seattle Symphonies. He is an active freelance musician, clinician, and private instructor. He has been a drumline instructor at Bingham High School, Copperhills High School, and Westlake (OH) High School. In 2002 he was the associate drumline instructor at the University of Utah and in 2007 the director the BYU drumline. In the the spring of 2007 Mr. Soulier began as the founding director of "HYPE"- the Honors Youth Percussion Ensemble for high school students at the University of Utah. He lives in South Jordan with his wife and three children

Gamelan Bitang Wayhu-BYU Gamelan Ensemble

Gamelan Bintang Wahyu is an ensemble of musicians, from all across the BYU community, dedicated to learning and performing the traditional and contemporary music of Bali, a small but artistically rich island in the Indonesian peninsula. The ensemble was founded in 2008 by Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw, and performs on instruments hand-crafted by Balinese tuners and carvers in the shop of I Wayan Beratha, Bali's most revered composer and instrument builder.

There are dozens of different kinds of gamelan, or percussion orchestras, in Bali; BYU's gamelan is of a type known as semara dana. This relatively new style of gamelan, invented by I Wayan Beratha in the 1980s, uses a tuning and keyboard configuration that allows the ensemble to play repertoire from various types of Balinese music, from the four-note angklung music used for cremation ceremonies, to the refined seven-note semar pegulingan music of the palaces, to the flashy five-note kebyar style heard in the fierce competitions between village gamelan groups.

Gamelan Bintang Wahyu has had to good fortune to work with noted guest artists and visiting Balinese dancers, including famous Balinese composer and teacher I Ketut Gede Asnawa and family; musician and dancer Edmundo Luna; dancer, musician, and choreographer Ayu Putu Niastarika, and Waye Vitale, former director of the Bay Area's Gamelan Sekar Jaya.

In the spirit of Balinese tradition, the name Bintang Wahyu draws on imagery from the natural world and recognizes the central role that music plays in Balinese spiritual life; it also alludes to symbolism from BYU's own faith tradition: Bintang means "star," especially a star of good omen; Wahyu means vision or revelation. "Star of Vision" thus holds special meaning in both Balinese and Mormon contexts. The name also recognizes the Balinese love of word-play: Bintang Wahyu, said aloud, contains the syllables "B-Y-U."

Gamelan Bintang Wahyu performs at various events and venues in the community, and gives a performance on campus near the end of every semester. The ensemble accepts a limited number of new members each semester; no prior experience with gamelan is required, though a high level of commitment and effort is. If you are interested in finding out more about gamelan, or would like to observe a rehearsal, please contact Dr. Grimshaw at jeremy.grimshaw@byu.edu.

Randy Gloss-Frame/Hand Drumming Artist

Randy Gloss-In addition to Hands On’Semble, Randy Gloss has also been involved in numerous other projects fusing world music with new music and jazz, including Adam Rudolph’s: “Go: Organic Orchestra” (winner of L.A. Weekly Music Award for Outstanding World Music Artist 2005 and 2003), and world percussion group Vashti. Since 2002, Randy has also been a member of the highly regarded Persian group The Lian Ensemble (L.A. Weekly Best World Music/ Recombinant Artist 2005 and 2004). Projects with the Lian Ensemble have included the Pangea Project, a collaborative work featuring master of the Armenian duduk Djivan Gasparyan with Swapan Cahudhuri and members of the Lian Ensemble; and the 2009 UCLALive production of Medea starring Annette Bening with Angus Macfadyen directed by Lenka Udovicki with music by Lian Ensemble and Nigel Osbourne. Other collaborative projects and artists Randy Gloss has worked with include: Indian slide veena virtuoso Chitravina Ravikiran (including a concert tour of India that also featured Brazilian pianist Jovino Santos Neto and master African drummer Alfred Ladzekpo); a Balkan/Indian collaboration with maestros Ashish Khan, Swapan Chaudhuri, Miroslav Tadic, Vlatko Stefanovski; pianist Larry Karush; Romanian pan flute virtuoso Damian Draghici; overtone singer David Hykes; Turkish musician Latif Bolat; Vinny Golia’s Large Ensemble; Persian pianist Ardeshir Rohani; and South Indian percussionist Poovalur Sriji’s Thanjavur and the SNEW Ensemble to name only some of the artists Randy has worked with. Randy Gloss has also contributed percussion for film soundtracks by composers Danny Elfman, Gary Chang, and Harry Gregson-Williams; for television series’ such as Fear Factor; recorded music for the American Conservatory Theater and Southwest ChamberMusic; and has recorded several extensive percussion sample libraries for softwarecompanies such as: Apple (Garage Band), Ilio, and Native Instruments. Randy has performed at festivals such as: International Oud festival of Jerusalem; PercPan, Ritmos de Terra, and the First International Music Festival of Belo Horizonte, Encontro Internacional de Percussão in Brazil; World Drum Festival in Hamburg Germany; The Taiwan International Drum Festival, the Tainan Chi-Hsi Int’l Arts Festival – Int’l Drummers Gala and the Hsin Chu International Folk Drum Festival in Taiwan; several Percussive Arts Society International Conventions (PASIC); Seattle World Rhythm Festival; Watts Tower Day of the Drum Festival; the Different Drummer Festival, and numerous PAS “Days of Percussion” including New York City, Southern California, Central California, Northern California, Southern Oregon, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Nevada. As well as performances at venues such as: Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco; Royce Hall, Skirball Cultural Center, Getty Center, and Ford Amphitheater in Los Angeles; Siri Fort Auditorium and National Center for Performing Arts in India; SESC Sao Paulo and Sergio Magnani Music Hall Fundação de Educação Artística in Brazil; and in Canada at Outremont Theatre in Montreal and Convocation Hall in Toronto. Randy teaches at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) where he has been on the percussion and world music faculty since 1999. Randy Gloss endorses Remo world percussion and drumheads, Paiste cymbals and gongs, and Cooperman frame drums. MFA Multi-Focus Percussion, California Institute of The Arts, 1997. B.M. Percussion Performance and Jazz Studies, University of Bridgeport, 1993. Teachers have included: John Bergamo, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Houman Pourmehdi, Poovalur Sriji, Guello, Carlos Stasi, Alfred Ladzekpo, I Nyoman Wenten, Daniel Kennedy, Michael Lipsey, Arthur Lipner, David Johnson, Victor Rendon, Richard Hill, Warren Odze, Pete Abbott, Jim Mola, Buddy Ostapowitz, Edson Gianesi, Wadada Leo Smith, Larry Koonse, Brian Torff, Rajeev Taranath.

Ari Hoenig-Drum Set Artist

Ari Hoenig (born on November 13, 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is a jazz drummer, composer and educator known for his unusual and intense approach to drumming emphasizing complex rhythms in direct harmony with other group members. Ari is widely noted particularly for his drumming not being relegated to just keeping tempo, or being a side issue to the music he plays in, but rather for elevating drumming as an indispensable part of the performance. Hoenig is also known for his unique ability to modify the pitch of a drum by using drum sticks, mallets, and even parts of his body (such as his hands and elbows). Using this technique, he can play any note in the chromatic scale, virtually any melody, and even improvise on a chord structure in the same way as any other instrumentalist would. Hoenig was born into a family of classically trained musicians. His father being a choral conductor and mother a violinist, he was exposed to classical and folk music at an early age. He played both piano and violin as a child, then rock and metal drums as a teen before settling into jazz and improvised music. Ari has recorded 6 cds as a leader including 2 solo drums cd’s and is currently a Dreyfus Records performing artist. Currently, his group Ari Hoenig and Punk Bop tours worldwide and performs weekly at the legendary New York jazz club Smalls. He is also the co-leader of Hoenig Pilc Project, together with long time musical partner Jean Michel Pilc. Other artists Hoenig has performed or recorded with as a sideman include Shirley Scott, Gerry Mulligan, Jean Michel Pilc, Mike Stern, Kenny Werner, Joshua Redman, Wayne Krantz, Herbie Hancock, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Richard Bona, Dave Liebman, Chris Potter, Toots Thielemans, Dave Holland, Joe Lovano, Pat Metheny, Pat Martino, Ivan Linz and the Jazz Mandolin Project.

Nancy Zeltsman - Marimba Artist

Nancy Zeltsman is a leading marimba performer, recording artist, teacher, author and festival director. She is Chair of the Percussion Department at The Boston Conservatory, Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, and Artistic Director of Zeltsman Marimba Festival, Inc.—an annual two-week intensive training seminar and concert series (www.ZMF.us). She has performed and presented master classes across the U.S. as well as in Europe, Japan and Mexico.

Nancy has premiered more than 125 pieces for marimba, including works by Michael Tilson Thomas, Paul Simon, Gunther Schuller, Louis Andriessen, Carla Bley and Steven Mackey. Nearly 80 of these were chamber works composed for the duo marimba/violin duo Marimolin (Sharan Leventhal, violin) with which Nancy performed and recorded from 1985 to 1996. In addition, Nancy has recorded three solo marimba CDs—Sweet Song, See Ya Thursday and Woodcuts—and a duo marimba CD with Jack Van Geem,Pedro and Olga Learn to Dance.

Zeltsman has authored a comprehensive marimba method, Four Mallet Marimba Playing: A Musical Approach for All Levels (Hal Leonard Corporation). Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba, 24 new solo concert works released in 2009, is the result of a historic joint-commissioning effort organized by Zeltsman and her assistant Shawn Michalek through ZMF New Music. The collection is published in two volumes edited by Zeltsman (C.F. Peters Corporation), and recorded on a double-CD (Bridge Records) performed by eight marimbists including Zeltsman for which she was Executive Producer. Nancy endorses Marimba One marimbas and her signature line of mallets produced by Encore Mallets. More information is available at www.nancyzeltsman.com.

Pete Sapadin - Rudimental Drumming Clinician

Pete Sapadin is a marching percussion specialist based in Southern California who excels at teaching his students the skills necessary to perform at the highest levels in the marching activity. Mr. Sapadin started his marching percussion career as a member of the 1987 Velvet Knights and then went on to become a member of the Concord Blue Devils in 1989 & 1990, and the Cadets of Bergen County in 1991. Mr. Sapadin was invited back to teach the Velvet Knights under Tom Float in 1992 and later took the reins as the Percussion Caption Head / Arranger for the Casper, Wyoming Troopers 2002-2004, and the Yamato Drum & Bugle Corps in 2005.

With several years of experience teaching and performing professionally in various ensembles from Anaheim, CA, Orlando, FL, NYC & Tokyo, Mr. Sapadin is able to bring 'real world' experience to his students and he does so with his own unique and engaging style. Pete Sapadin teaches percussion at multiple high schools, middle schools and as part of the Riverside Community College Independent World Class percussion staff. He continues to demonstrate his ability to inspire, motivate and instruct students to truly become the best in the world. Mr. Sapadin is a highly sought after clinician and proud to be a Vic Firth Education Artist, a Pearl Education Artist and a Remo Education Artist.