Rupert Kettle
Rupert Kettle (1940-2005) was an American composer of mostly stage and chamber works that have been performed in the U.S. and Europe, and was active as a percussionist and writer. Mr. Kettle privately studied composition with John Cage, Richard Cone, Henri Gibeau, Teije Ito, and Ted Maters, and percussion with Donald Patterson, James Salmon and Walter Walski. He studied drumkit and Latin percussion with Henry Adler, mallet percussion with Doug Allen, and timpani with Alfred Friese. In 2000, he received a DFA honoris causa from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, where he had taught percussion since 1972.