Performance Opportunities

Performance Ensembles

Performance is a central component to the percussion studies curriculum. In addition to the Oberlin Percussion Group, which is dedicated to the presentation of contemporary music written for percussion, our students perform with the Oberlin Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra, the Opera Orchestra, the Wind Ensemble, the Brass Guild, and the Contemporary Music Ensemble. Other ensembles include the Symphonic Band, various jazz ensembles, the Collegium Musicum, the Javanese Gamelan, the African Mandinka Ensemble, and the Trinidad Steel Band.

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Guest Performers and Master Classes

Each year, Oberlin hosts performances and master classes by celebrated musicians from around the world. Recent visiting performers include:

• Aiyun Huang, percussion
• The Iktus Combo (with Chris Graham, percussion)
• José “Zeca” Lacerda, vibraphone and marimba
• Bob Becker, xylophone and Yurika Kimura, marimba
• The Col Legno Duo (with Scott Pollard, percussion)
• Paul Yancich, timpanist of the Cleveland Orchestra
• Earl Yowell, former timpanist of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
• Frederic Macarez, former timpanist of the Orchestre de Paris
• Filippo Lattanzi, marimba and Marco Pacassoni, vibraphone
• Percussion Group/Cincinnati
• Steve Schick, percussion
• Jean Geoffroy, marimba with Franck Berthoux, electronics
• Nexus Ensemble