The Music of the Americas Project is a 15-member ensemble at Adams State University.

Click here for our Colorado Music Educators Association Conference (CMEA) program

Music of the Americas Project Performances, January 20-25, 2020: 

January 20th Adams State University, Alamosa…

PASIC Lightning Session B

November 16, 2019, 3pm-3:50pm

Room 201

Indianapolis, Indiana

Presentation Resources:

Woman-Identifying Percussion Ensemble Composer Database:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1omcWh2w_seOUX8_xD_hKDcvHcVTvbIN9nmwtXQ3B6Eo/edit?usp=sharing

“Portable” Percussion Ensemble Database:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l9LqHDYeeC_JNrrtRhFBJSq5FVPPTN_FCjn3yxqVS90/edit?usp=sharing

Composers:

Gemma Peacocke

https://www.gemmapeacocke.com/

inti figgis-vizueta

https://www.inticomposes.com/

Molly Herron

http://mollyherron.com/

Get Involved:

https://www.newworksproject.org/

PASIC Presentation:

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Join the Live Stream here at 6:50pm MST.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpusuQBRvowFlfWkXw9iUnQ/live

Program info below!

Click here for program information:

11.12.19_Percussion_Extravaganza.pdf

Program Notes:

Tonight marks a return to the Percussion Extravaganza concept of our percussion concerts. What this means for you as audience…

Live Stream Here! 

Director’s Note:

The Spring 2019 academic semester began with a percussion ensemble clinic/performance at the Colorado Music Educators Association Conference (CMEA) at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs on the topic of portable “backpack” percussion works. The students…

Two CD release concerts coming up with Apricity Trio--both benefitting student and faculty exchange between Gunma University, Japan, and Adams State University, Colorado.

Join us in Alamosa, CO

or 

Santa Fe, NM!

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In an effort to make chamber percussion music more accessible to all, the Adams State Percussion Studio is embarking on a multi-year project to create several volumes of works for “portable” percussion ensemble. Young percussionists, regardless of socio-economic factors, rehearsal…

Below are links to pdf's pertaining to three of my clinics for the 2019 Colorado Music Educator's Conference at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. Also below is a database link for percussion ensemble works that fit in a backpack (or…

The Adams State University Percussion Ensemble Presents:

“Affinity”

Director’s Note:

Programming for ensembles should carry a heavy burden. Asking students to commit untold hours of individual preparation, sectional rehearsals, instrument building, mallet selection, full ensemble rehearsals, research, recording sessions, and…

If you see a problem, engage to find solutions.

A few months ago, I was casually perusing social media over my morning coffee. It was the height of the fall semester “concert season" in academia and numerous concert programs were…