DAY OF PERCUSSION

Illinois Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society
DAY OF PERCUSSION
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Hosted by Jarrett Lee Hicks
Message From The Host
It is with great pleasure that I invite you to Columbia
College Chicago this coming April for what is going to
be a very exciting, fun-filled and educational Day of
Percussion! The Illinois Chapter of the Percussive Arts
Society is one of the largest in the nation and this day
will be an opportunity to bring the percussion community together in Chicago with members from the rest
of the state of Illinois. Our 2011 line-up is a diverse
group of artists, offering something for everybody.
Our schedule will begin with a jazz jam session with
a Columbia College faculty jazz group that will give
drummers and jazz vibraphonists an opportunity to
perform and receive valuable feedback from Columbia
College Chicago jazz faculty members Tom Hipskind
and Frank Donaldson.
It is very exciting to announce that this year the Illinois chapter of the Percussive Arts
Society will have its first annual composition competition. This year the focus will be solo
vibraphone and the winners of the competition will have their pieces performed at the
event by a professional Chicago area vibraphonist.
We have four incredible guest artists that each represents a different aspect of percussion
performance. This diverse group will offer something for everybody! The line-up for 2011
includes a clinic by CSO principal percussionist Cynthia Yeh, a clinic and performance by
drumset artist Frank Rosaly and his trio, which includes guitarist Jeff Parker, and bassist
Nate McBride, a clinic and performance by master jazz vibraphonist Dick Sisto and a
clinic and performance by Latin percussion virtuoso Michael Spiro. Dick Sisto, Michael
Spiro and Frank Rosaly will be performing at the evening concert.
I am very happy to report that there is a large number of educational institutions participating in this event that range from the young members of the Sherwood Percussion
Ensemble (ages 7 to 12) to the many wonderful college and university percussion programs
we have in our great state of Illinois. Special thanks goes to our guest artists, the sponsors and Illinois P.A.S. President Greg Beyer, Illinois P.A.S. Vice President Ruben Alvarez
and Illinois P.A.S. Treasurer Doug Bratt. I hope you will come join us for a very special
and memorable day, where we can honor the passion, creativity and dedication of our
vibrant community as a collective group of performers, teachers, composers and students!
Sincerely,
Jarrett L. Hicks
Getz Theatre
1014 Concert Hall
Sherwood Hall
9:00 AM
Registration
Registration
Registration
9:30 AM
Solo mallet critiques. (all
ages)
Open jazz jam on kit or vibes
w/Hipskind & Donaldson
adjudicating
10:00 AM
Solo mallet critiques. (all
ages)
Open jazz jam on kit or vibes
w/Hipskind & Donaldson
adjudicating
10:30 AM
Performance of solo
vibraphone compositions
11:00 AM
Performance of solo
vibraphone compositions
11:30 AM
Frank Rosaly percussions &
electronic clinic/performance
12:00 Noon
Frank Rosaly percussions &
electronic clinic/performance
1:00 PM
LUNCH
Open Illinois chapter meeting
LUNCH
1:30 PM
LUNCH
Executive meeting.
Closed to public
LUNCH
2:00 PM
Dick Sisto Jazz vibraphone
clinic
2:30 PM
Dick Sisto jazz vibraphone
clinic
3:00 PM
Cynthia Yeh orchestral
percussion clinic
3:30 PM
Cynthia Yeh orchestral
percussion clinic
4:00 PM
Michael Spiro Latin
percussion clinic
4:30 PM
Michael Spiro Latin
percussion clinic
Kristen Regester
percussion
workshop for kids
5:00 PM
Chicago/Illinois Percussion
ensemble performances
Kristen Regester
percussion
workshop for kids
5:30 PM
Chicago/Illinois Percussion
ensemble performances
6:00 PM
Chicago/Illinois Percussion
ensemble performances
6:30–7:30 PM
DINNER
8:00–9:30 PM
Sisto & Spiro Concert
DINNER
DINNER
Equipment List
Below is a list of the equipment we will have available for the percussion ensembles
at the Day of Percussion. Smaller groups such as trios, quartets, quintets and sextets
are advisable due to the number of mallet instruments we have available. Schools are
welcome to bring their own equipment and sharing is appreciated. Also, please bring your
own smaller percussion instruments such as triangles, tambourines, shakers, cowbells,
bell tree, finger cymbals, etc.
Bells: 1 Deagan
Xylophone: 1 Rosewood Adams, 1 Keylon Musser
Vibraphone: 1 Adams (AV-1), 1 Gold bar Musser
Marimba: 1 Yamaha (5Octave), 1 Keylon Musser 4.5
Chimes: 1 Adams Chimes
Timpani: 1 Set of Adams (5 Drums), plus an extra 25 and 28 inch are available.
Concert Snare: 1 Clevelander Concert snare. (There are many drum set snares available)
Concert Bass Drum: 1 Majestic concert bass drum
Drum Set: Several Yamaha and Gretsch drums sets are available. Jazz or fusion set-up.
Suspended Cymbal: 1 Zildjian Constantinople
Concert Crash Cymbals: 1 set of Zildjians
Bongos: 2 sets
Congas: 2 sets (One set of four drums and one set of three)
Djembe: 1 Remo with synthetic head
Crotales: One set of Paiste crotales that are 1 octave.
Concert Toms: 1 set
Guitar Amp: 1 guitar amp will be available unless requested
Bass Amp: 1 bass amp will be available unless requested
Come swing with us at our open jazz jam for drum set and vibraphone players! You’ll
have an opportunity to perform with Columbia College Chicago faculty members and
receive valuable feedback from CCC jazz drum set faculty members Tom Hipskind and
Frank Donaldson.
Photo by Sahyley Hernandez
Open Jazz Jam
For Drum Set and Vibraphone
Tom Hipskind
Frankie Donaldson
Tom Hipskind has been playing drums for well over 30
years. He received his undergraduate degree in jazz
performance at Northern Illinois University, where he
played with the NIU Jazz Ensemble and accompanied
many jazz legends for three years, before doing graduate work at DePaul University and taking residence in
the Chicago area. He has performed, recorded and
toured extensively with many artists, such as Howard
Levy, Kenny Werner, Patricia Barber, Fred Simon, Kimo
Williams’ Kimotion, Gary Sinise’s Lt. Dan Band, and
many others. Currently, he’s a member of the Chicagobased jazz/fusion group Kick The Cat, and is on the
band’s latest CD, “Scramble”. Tom is a highly-regarded
studio musician, having recorded on dozens of TV
and radio commercials, film soundtracks, and record dates. He’s also found a home in
Broadway-style pit orchestras, performing on Chicago-based productions of “The Lion
King”, “Shrek” and “Dirty Dancing”. Since 2004, Tom has been adjunct faculty in the
music department at Columbia College Chicago, teaching private lessons and classes.
Frankie Donaldson is a leading exponent of funk,
fusion and jazz drumming, as well as an accomplished
bandleader. Mr. Donaldson began studying piano at
age seven and switched to drums at age nine. He
turned professional at age fifteen. He was a member
of Archie Bell and the Drells, who had the number 1
Billboard hit The Tighten Up. In 1969 Frankie entered
North Park College where he studied with Don Koss of
the Chicago Symphony. Throughout the 1970’s Frankie
Donaldson continued to expand his playing talents
and musical options. He enrolled at the American
Conservatory of Music in 1971, where he studied under
James Dutton. Frankie was the percussion soloist with
the North Shore Philharmonia, which gave more than
thirty-eight performances of Milhaud’s Concerto for Percussion. From 1969–78 Frankie
was a member of a funk band named Rasputin’s Stash, they were signed with Cotillion
and Gemigo Records. Frankie was the drummer with the Ramsey Lewis Trio for fifteen
years recording four albums on Columbia Records including a recording with the London
Symphony Orchestra. He toured world-wide at auditoriums, festivals and symphony orchestras including the American Symphony Orchestra in New York. He is currently on the
faculty of Columbia College Chicago and tours with his own jazz ensemble as well as the
Chicago Jazz Ensemble. He has also toured and/or recorded with Curtis Mayfield, Angela
Bofil, Ray Charles, George Shearing, Bill Withers, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turentine, Roy
Ayers, Noel Pointer, Patty Austin, Carmen Mac Crae and others. From 1990 to the present,
Frankie has toured and recorded with Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues (www.chamberblues.
com) on Gadfly and Alligator Records. In November, 2007 Frankie was elected to a three
year term on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Federation of Musicians. In the fall
of 2010 Frankie was elected to his 2nd 3-year term with the Federation. In early 2011
Frankie will release his debut solo album, Swims With Dolphins.
Cynthia Yeh
Frank Rosaly
Cynthia Yeh joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
as principal percussionist in June 2007. She previously
served as principal percussionist for the San Diego
Symphony Orchestra from 2004–2007.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Ms. Yeh received a Bachelor
of Music performance degree from the University of
British Columbia and a Master of Music performance
degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, where
she studied with Alan Abel. She has received grants
and awards from the Canada Council Grant for the Arts
in 2000 and 2001, the British Columbia Arts Council
in 1999 and 2000, and the Charles Owen Memorial
Scholarship in 1998.
Ms. Yeh has been featured as a soloist on Chicago’s WFMT program Live from Levin Studio.
In 2010 Cynthia made her solo debut with the CSO and Pierre Boulez in Carnegie Hall
performing Bartok’s Sonata for two pianos and percussion. She performs regularly with
the CSO’s MusicNOW ensemble and most recently performed Steven Mackey’s Micro
Concerto. Cynthia has given master classes and clinics all over the United States, including the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Northwestern University, New
World Symphony, Indiana University, Peabody Conservatory and New York University.
In 2009, Ms. Yeh served on the faculty at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan.
Clinic Info:
3:00–4:00 pm at the Columbia College Chicago Music Center.
Cynthia Yeh will discuss how to play in the orchestra as well as orchestral percussion
techniques and how to prepare for orchestral auditions.
Frank Rosaly (born 5/30/74) is a drummer and composer currently living in Chicago. He has been involved
in the improvised and experimental music community
for 10 years where he has become an integral part
of the Chicago scene, navigating a fine line between
the vibrant improvised music, experimental, rock and
jazz communities. He contributes much of his time to
performing, composing, teaching, as well as organizing
musical events, while also touring regularly domestically and internationally.
Frank is currently active in many projects throughout
Chicago as well as New York and in Europe. Some
groups include Matana Robert’s Chicago Project, Rob
Mazurek’s Mandarin Movie, The Rempis Percussion
Quartet, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten Quintet, Jeff Parker/Nels Cline Quartet, Josh Abrams
Remindring, Fred Lonberg-Holm’s Valentine Trio, Keefe Jackson’s Fast Citizens & Project
Project, The Josh Berman Quartet, The Jeb Bishop Trio, Jason Adasievicz’s Rolldown, Jorrit
Dijkstra’s Flatlands Collective, Chicago Lucern Exchange, Hearts and Minds, Slow Cycle,
Outskirts, Daniel Levin Trio and others.
Rosaly also leads a quintet, Viscous, featuring Jaimie Branch (tpt), Kyle Bruckmann
(oboe), James Falzone (cl) and Kevin Davis (cello), as well as his clarinet sextet, Cicatas
Music, featuring James Falzone (cl), Jason Stein (bcl) and Keefe Jackson (cbcl), Jason
Asasiewicz (vb), and Jason Roebke (b).
Other performances in the recent past include collaborations with Peter Brotzmann, Tony
Malaby, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Coleman, Paul Flaherty, Marshall Allen, Louis Moholo,
Eric Boeren, Ken Vandermark, Michael Zerang, Walter Weirbos, among many others.
He is also involved in two solo projects. One is Milkwork: a study in integration of electronically manipulated percussion instruments, improvising dense sound walls with controlled
feedback, overdriven amplified drums and creating soundscapes designed on analog
instruments, blending these sounds with more traditional extended techniques on unamplified drum set. The other project, Softbeater, is a ‘solo drums with voice’ outing. It’s
Frank’s version of a singer/songwriter performance, taking cues and drawing inspiration
from Sonic Youth, Wire, Juana Molina and J Dilla.
Dick Sisto
Dick Sisto was born and raised in Chicago. Studied
mallets privately with Jose Bethancourt of the Chicago
Symphony and house musician at the London House.
Sisto was names best soloist at the Illinois High School
big band contest. Attended North Texas and led a
quartet as a freshman at the Notre Dame Collegiate
Jazz Festival where he was judged “an excellent player”
by Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderly. Attended Northwestern
University where he was a featured soloist with David
Sanborn in the Lab band.
Frank organizes and coordinates the Ratchet Series, a weekly showcase of creative music
at the Skylark in Chicago. Frank is also faculty at the Old Town School of Folk Music where
he teaches private lessons.
Frank earned a performance degree from NAU. He has studied with Billy Higgins, Peter
Donald, Bob Moses, Joel DiBartolo, Dom Moio, Steve Hemphill, Robert Schulz, Michael
Vatcher and with the staff at the Jazz Record Mart.
Frank Rosaly Clinic:
11:30–12:15
Title: This ain’t no drum clinic
Topics:
– short electo-acoustic piece.... into
– playing with the trio
– a fireside chat
– finding yourself: the gospel according to a record geek
– learning to be a critical thinker as a means to finding your voice in creative music (jazz, improvised music)
– community: finding your people/developing within a ‘scene’
Frank Rosaly Performance
Frank Rosaly will be joined by guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Nate McBride.
Sisto has played jazz clubs and festivals throughout
the US with Fathead Newman, Milt Hinton, Ira Sullivan,
Willie Pickens, Larry Koonse, Ben Monder, Fred Hersch,
Bobby Broom, Drew Gress and many others.
As the house band leader at the famous Seelbach Hilton Jazz Bar in Louisville Ky. his
trio has featured numerous guests, including Joe and Pat Labarbera, Barry Ries, Rich
Perry, Rufus Reid, Joe Morello, David Hazeltine, Antonio Hart, Dave Stryker, etc. etc. etc.
He has toured England five times playing prominent venues.
Sisto is the author of The Jazz Vibraphone Book (Meredith-Hal Leonard) and has given
clinics and master classes at the University of N. Texas, Queens College, NYC, Indiana
Univ, Depaul University, Arizona State U. and many more.
As a leader Sisto has released 4 CD’s nationally and in Europe with Kenny Werner, Fred
Hersch, Barry, Ries, Drew Gress, Bobby Broom and Dennis Irwin.
He has been the jazz vibe teacher at the Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops for more
than a dozen years.
More info at www.dicksisto.com
Clinic: Creating the Vibe
Demonstrating the process of achieving a jazz voice and facility on the vibraphone, including sound, melodic and harmonic development, comping and self accompaniment,
two, three and four mallet application and rhythmic variation.
Michael Spiro
Known specifically for his work in the Latin music field,
Michael Spiro is an internationally recognized percussionist, recording artist, and educator, whose career
is remarkably multi-faceted.
He currently is in his third year as Professor of World
Percussion at the esteemed Jacobs School of Music
at Indiana University, where he has developed the
curriculum for teaching both Afro-Cuban and AfroBrazilian music and culture in both the Percussion
and Jazz Departments.
He is a five-time Grammy nominee, and has performed
on literally thousands of recordings, many of which he
also produced. This includes several seminal rccordings in the Latin music genre such as: “BataKetu”, “Mark Levine and the Latin Tinge”,
“Orquesta La Moderna Tradición”, and “Grupo Ilu-Aña”. He also has co-produced and/
or played on several prominent instructional videos, including “El Lenguaje del Tambor”,
“Talking Drums”, Changuito’s “The History of the Songo”, Giovanni Hidalgo, Ignacio Berroa,
and of course his own DVD which was released in 2008.
His performing credits include such diverse international artists as David Byrne, Cachao,
The Caribbean Jazz Project, Dori Caymmi, Changuito, Richard Egues, Frank Emilio Flynn,
Ella Fitzgerald, David Garibaldi, Gilberto Gil, Giovanni Hidalgo, Ray Holman, Toninho Horta,
Bobby Hutcherson, Dr. John, Mark Levine and the Latin Tinge, The Machete Ensemble,
Bobby McFerrin, Andy Narell, Ray Obiedo, Chico O’Farrill, Eddie Palmieri, Lazaro Ros, David
Rudder, Carlos Santana, Grace Slick, Omar Sosa, Talking Drums, Clark Terry, McCoy Tyner,
Wayne Wallace, and Charlie Watts. He has recorded soundtracks to such major motion
pictures as Soapdish, Henry and June, True Stories, Sworn To The Drum, Walker, Eddie
Macon’s Run, and Dragon-The Life of Bruce Lee; and wrote several arrangements for the
Tony Award winning Broadway show “BLAST!” which was released on DVD by PBS in 2002.
He is an acclaimed author, having published three books on Afro-Cuban percussion, including “TimbaFunk”, “Tiempo”, and “The Conga Drummer’s Guidebook”, the latter of which
has become the standard for intermediate and advanced conga study. Finally, three years
ago he launched two ground-breaking educational websites—www.congamasterclass.
com, and www.sambamasterclass.com, both of which offer complete and comprehensive
instruction on the internet of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian music and culture.
His formal education includes a Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in Latin American
Studies from the University of California, and three and a half years of graduate work in
ethnomusicology at the University of Washington. His practical education consists of a
seven-year apprenticeship with the late Francisco Aguabella (b. d. May 7, 2010), and ex-
tensive study throughout Latin America. He has studied annually in Cuba since 1984 with
musicians such as Jose Luis Quintana (“Changuito”), Esteban Vega Bacallao (“Cha-Cha”),
Daniel Diaz and Juan “Claro” Blanco of “La Orquesta Ritmo Oriental”, Regino Jimenez,
Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, and Grupo Afro-Cuba de Matanzas. In addition, in 1986
he spent two months training at G.R.E.S. Portela, the famous Escola de Samba in Rio
de Janeiro, has maintained regular study with Mestre Jorge Alabe since 1990, and then
returned to Rio in 2008 to further deepen his knowledge of carioca music and culture.
In addition to his position at Indiana University, Michael is a frequent visiting artist at
universities worldwide. He has been a Guest Artist or Artist in Residence at literally at
over 150 colleges throughout North America and Europe, teaches annually at a variety of
international Music Workshops and clinics, and continues to be a presenter at national
and statewide conventions of P.A.S. (The Percussive Arts Society) every year.
Although Michael teaches full time at Indiana University, he still records and produces in
a wide variety of genres throughout the Unites States, and he remains an integral part
of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He continues to co-lead (with violinist Tregar
Otten) the only surviving Charanga group in the United States devoted to preserving the
classic Afro-Cuban “danzón” sound, “Orquesta La Moderna Tradición”. This Orquesta
continues to play festivals throughout the US (including New York’s Lincoln Center), and
under his direction has released three celebrated CDs over the last decade. Five years
ago he teamed with Santana veteran Karl Perrazzo to form “Conjunto Karabali”, an 11
piece Latin band devoted to the traditional Afro-Cuban conjunto sound, which has become
arguably the number one Latin dance band in the Bay Area. Finally, he holds the conga
drum chair in Wayne Wallace’s Latin Jazz quintet, which has just completed its sixth CD
in the last five years, and is receiving international critical praise for its ensemble sound,
skill, and maturity.
“Michael… knows how to teach it... giving the reasons for things and the history. He can
teach any aspect of Brazilian or Afro-Cuban music that you want. He’s one of the most
talented guys I’ve ever met.”
David Garibaldi, Hall of Fame Drummer
Clinic:
Michael Spiro is an internationally recognized percussionist who has developed a residency program of workshops and master classes for music students. The residency’s
curriculum covers the history, development, and performance techniques of Afro-Cuban
and Brazilian music. Spiro not only teaches how to play the music, but emphasizes the
cultural context within which the music takes place. Included are participatory activities in Afro-Cuban and Brazilian percussion performance. Activities are adapted to the
particular group in attendance.
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