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CIRQUE DU SOLEIL MUSICIANS VISIT PERCUSSION STUDIO
"Samman and Hankin's visits provide some exposure for our students and provide them with some real world applications", says Brown. "Our objective," says Brown, "is to produce thoroughly qualified and artistically sensitive musicians who are prepared with the skills needed to make a living as percussionists." Wayne Hankin is a specialist in unique wind instruments playing over forty instruments for Cirque du Soleil. Hankin's harp mater class provided not only the basics about playing the instrument, but also advanced skills such as plucking and vocalizing. Hankin is a varied and flexible instrumentalist and is currently writing a piece for the Shepherd School Percussion Studio for ten harps and ethic percussion. The Shepherd School of Music has one of the country's most active and productive percussion studios. Carefully selected from both graduate and undergraduate applicants, this intense group of students works under the full-time guidance of its director, Richard Brown. Members of this group have consistently won places in every major summer festival, most recently Tanglewood, the National Repertory Orchestra, the National Orchestral Institute, the Pacific Music Festival, and the Spoleto Festival. Professionally, former students are performing with symphonies in Vancouver, Honolulu, Puerto Rico, and Detroit, as well as with the U.S. Marine Band. Current students are frequently engaged by the Houston Symphony Orchestra as extra players. |
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