UNCSA PERCUSSION
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Intensive personalized instruction by experienced faculty.
A full set of well maintained large percussion instruments in every rehearsal and performance space. The best student-to-instrument ratio in the Mid Atlantic.
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UNCSA percussionists perform!
The intimate conservatory setting provides excellent performance opportunities for students from high school - graduate school under the direct supervision of Artist-Faculty member John R. Beck, a performer and teacher with over 25 years of experience. |
Since 1999 graduates of the UNCSA Percussion Program have been accepted at leading music schools and universities in the US including: Curtis, Eastman, Julliard, Northwestern, Oberlin, Manhattan, CIM, Peabody, Ithaca College, Boston Conservatory, Boston University, Vanderbilt, SMU, FSU, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Carnegie Mellon, UNC, and summer programs including Tanglewood, Julliard, Interlochen, and Brevard. UNCSA graduates have found careers as orchestral performers, college teachers, in service bands, and as public school music educators.Audio Links: Rhythm Song duet arrangement - High School Seniors Sharpened Stick - UNCSA Percussion Ensemble Trio per Uno - UNCSA Percussion Ensemble Momentum - Kraft - UNCSA PE
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-All students study with an experienced professor. -No Graduate Teaching Assistants for lessons. |
MM, BM, and high school degrees
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"I can state with confidence after serving on the faculties of 10 universities over the past 25 years that UNCSA has some of the most motivated and talented percussion students with whom I have worked. This is a learning environment where students can reach their potential." - John R. Beck |
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Spend your time practicing not moving drums around campus. Instrument Inventory NCSA Percussion Ensemble 2006-07 “The evening began with John Beck leading the school's Percussion Ensemble in Varese's Ionisation, from 1931... The performance glowed with precision.” - Winston-Salem Journal - Sunday, October 22, 2006 Listen: Ionisation (excerpt) performed by the UNCSA Percussion Ensemble
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Members of the Percussion Ensemble make annual visits to the Outer Banks of North Carolina during the summer to perform in the Festival Park in Manteo. Listen: Marimba Band at Roanoke Island Festival Park Performance opportunities both in school and in the community. Central North Carolina is home to the Winston-Salem Symphony, the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, and the Salisbury Symphony, Carolina Chamber Symphony, and several Jazz Venues which book local musicians and student groups.
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John R. Beck has performed with a wide variety of ensembles in a diversity of musical styles. He is a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and a percussionist with the Winston-Salem and Greensboro Symphony Orchestras, Brass Band of Battle Creek, and the Philidor Percussion Group. A former member of the United States Marine Band, he performed regularly with the National and Baltimore Symphonies, Washington and Baltimore Operas, and the Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center. Beck has toured the United States as a xylophone soloist with the Marine Band, Jack Daniel's Silver Cornet Band, and the New Sousa Band. As a teacher, he has served on the faculties of the Universities of Utah, Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina-Greensboro, and Florida State, and holds degrees from Oberlin College and the Eastman School of Music. Beck is an active member of the Percussive Arts Society and is currently the Vice President. He has appeared as a clinician at several PASIC's and state chapter Days of Percussion . He presents clinics representing Innovative Mallets, Yamaha Percussion and Zildjian Cymbals, and his compositions, arrangements, and instructional video are published by HoneyRock. His CD “Shared Spaces” is distributed by Equilibrium. JR Beck CD released on Equilibrium Shared Spaces; music for percussion, horn, clarinet, and winds 8/04 |
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