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Assistant Professor of
Music,
Percussion
Dr. Michael Sammons currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music
and Director of Percussion Studies at the University of South Alabama, Director
and Arranger for the USA Jag' Drumline, and percussionist with the Mobile Symphony.
He has appeared as guest soloist throughout the southeast and Gulf Coast region
as well as multiple performances at the Percussive Arts Society International
Convention (PASIC). Sammons has performed with orchestras in Florida, Arizona
and Alabama and is a founding member of Zumbumba, an active percussion trio
specializing in the fusion of classical and non-western music.
An active educator and clinician, Sammons served as Lecturer in Music
at Clemson University in 2007-2008. He has served as a clinician and
adjudicator across the U.S. and in Brazil and has presented and performed at
conventions including Percussive Arts Society, Alabama PAS “Day of Percussion”,
Alabama Music Educators Association and Music Educators National Convention.
Sammons also serves as director and co-founder of the Treasure Coast Percussion
Camp held in Vero Beach, Florida since 2005 and the Southeast Percussion
Festival since 2009. He is a member of the Percussive Arts Society and is a
contributing author to Percussive Notes. In 2006, Sammons presented
a session entitled "New Music for Steel Band" at PASIC in Austin,
Texas with the University of Arizona and released the third CD, Panstraction,
by the UA Steel Band.
Michael Sammons received his Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in
Percussion Performance from the University of Arizona, where he served as
Graduate Teaching Assistant and Director of the UA Steel Band Program from
2003-2007. He received the 2007 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant award
for the UA College of Fine Arts. He earned the Master of Music degree in
Percussion Performance from the University of Arizona in 2005 and the Bachelor
of Music degree in Music Education, with a Performer’s Certificate, from the
University of Florida in 2002. His travels abroad include Trinidad, Ghana and
Brazil, performing research on the various traditional music and dance of these
cultures. Michael Sammons is endorsed by Vic Firth, Remo, Grover Pro Percussion and Sabian
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Contact Info
Dr. Michael Sammons
LPAC 1234
Department of Music
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688
251-460-6247
msammons@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Education
Doctor of Musical Arts
Percussion Performance
University of Arizona Master of Music in
Percussion Performance
University of Arizona Bachelor of Music Education
with Performance Certificate
University of Florida
Recordings Kim for Snare Drum by Áskell Másson
Sonata No. 4 for Violin
by Eugène Ysaÿe/transcribed by Mike Sammons
Impromptu for Marimba
by Áskell Másson
Wai Na Fu Yo
traditional Birifor
Panstraction 2006
University of Arizona
Steel Band
Mike Sammons, director
Courses Taught
Applied Percussion
USA Percussion Ensemble
Percussion Pedagogy
Percussion Methods
Percussion Literature
USA Marching Drumline
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