Percussion Area
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The percussion students at the School of Music, Faculty of Arts
hail from all points within Australia as well as Asia and New Zealand.
Studying percussion at the School of Music involves a total immersion
into the full spectrum of percussion though an emphasis on developing
the individual percussionist as a chamber and solo musician. Students
study the full range of orchestral repertoire as well as cotemporary
percussion ensemble, world music and current trends. The percussion
program resides within the School of Music with purpose built facilities
for practice and performance. In addition to a complete range of
traditional western percussion instruments, the percussion area
is the custodian of a set of West African Ewe and Ashanti drums,
a complete Javanese Gamelan and a collection of South Indian and
Asian percussion instruments. The School of Music Library archives
an extensive collection of solo and ensemble repertoire written
exclusively for percussion. Students have full access to the latest
technology in the research of percussion performance practice.
The School of Music percussion ensemble “DRUMatiX” presents
the rich and divers repertoire written exclusively for percussion.
Numerous School of Music percussion students and ensembles regularly
perform national broadcast for ABC Classic FM as well as many public
performances in Australia and overseas. You will find ANU percussion
graduates leading the way as members in both ABC and overseas orchestras
performing in the worlds leading percussion ensembles, in the studio
and in the pit. |
Head of Area
Gary France, MMus
(UNT), BMusEd (SUNY)
Percussion
T: +61 2 6125 5753
F: +61 2 6125 9775
E: Gary.France@anu.edu.au
W: www.garyfrance.com
(On Leave Semester 1, 2009)
Performance Staff
Mary Broughton
Percussion
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