Join us for my final concert as the Director of the SOU Percussion Ensemble! I am retiring from full-time teaching at SOU on 12/31 - but I’ll still be sticking around for a bit part-time!
Me with Brian Gardiner and the Mountain View H.S. students at a rehearsal in September - they were rockin’!
The Mountain View High School Percussion Ensemble, from Vancouver, WA, will perform Cascade, written by my son mackxswell and I, at the Western International Band Clinic (WIBC) in Seattle! The solo part will be played by their Percussion Director and my Portland Percussion Group colleague, Dr. Brian Gardiner. A huge thank you and congratulations to Brian and Band Directors Mark Claassen and Sam Ormson for including Cascade in your program and for being invited to perform at WIBC!
Caballito Negro and Other Arts Ensemble will premiere Baljinder Sekhon’s new concerto Five Rings…
Tyzik:: A Christmas Overture
(Variations on Deck the Halls)
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on “Greensleeves”
arr. Tyzik: Ave Maria
Arnold: The Holly and the Ivy
Kelly: Of Nights and Lights: A Chanukah Celebration
Tyzik: The Twelve Gifts of Christmas
Anderson: Sleigh Ride
Gruber arr. Tyzik: Silent Night
Finnlegan: Christmas Sing Along
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Dvořák: Violin Concerto
Paul Huang, violin
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique”
Caballito Negro (flutist Tessa Brinckman and percussionist Terry Longshore) are thrilled to collaborate with percussionist Andy Bliss and flutist Maria Maria Castillo Rodriguez at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville…
Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
Joyce Yang, piano
Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
Theofanidis: Rainbow Body
Strauss: Four Last Songs
Meredith Wohlgemuth, soprano
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
I am excited to present The Innocents by John Lane and Alan Otte at SOU!
Now the subject of an award-winning documentary film, The Innocents is social justice advocacy through performance art…
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Will Hagen, violin
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Brass Don’t Melt! brings the excitement of New Orleans-style second line music…
Ives: Central Park in the Dark
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
George Li, piano
Elgar: Enigma Variations
The 26-27 Rogue Valley Symphony season opens with “Americana Pops”…
…I am excited to perform it again with Maestro Martin Majkut at the Oregon Coast Music Festival!
Portland Percussion Group returns to Makrokosmos Project…
I am looking forward to joining the Portland Summer Percussion Academy for the sixth year in a row…
Dúo Flamenco returns to and opens the 2026 Oregon Shakespeare Festival Green Show…
SOU Percussion Ensemble’s Maraval Road Steel Band, directed by Reed Bentley, will open the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Green Show…
The Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensembles will present their final concert of the season – “Playtime!”…
The Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensembles will perform at the 2026 Northwest Percussion Festival…
The Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensembles will present their second concert of the season – “Toy Story”…
On Friday, February 20, from 6-8pm, ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum and the Southern Oregon University Honors College will present “Making Music,”
The Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensembles will present their first concert of the season – “Trances”…
Portland Percussion Group will be presenting with composer Alejandro Viñao at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC)!
Portland Percussion Group will be presenting a masterclass along with composer Alejandro Viñao at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music…
I am thrilled to be performing Adam Schoenberg’s fabulous 2019 percussion concerto, Losing Earth…
Caballito Negro continues galloping to Mexico City…
Caballito Negro gallops to the Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato…
A great season in store with RVS - and I’ll be a soloist this year for Masterworks II in November!
I am looking forward to joining the Portland Summer Percussion Academy for the sixth year in a row…
I’m thrilled to be joining 45th Parallel Universe…
The SOU Percussion Ensembles present “Circles,” our final concert of the year!
I’m excited to welcome back my dear friend, Iván Manzanilla, for a solo recital at SOU!
Link Up is a music education program created by Carnegie Hall to unite the classroom with the concert hall, giving students in grades 3–5 the opportunity to explore music through a year-long curriculum of classroom activities and a culminating concert in which students perform with a professional orchestra.
We are excited to welcome percussionist Michael Jones to SOU to perform for our Percussion Studio Class…
The SOU Percussion Ensemble and Maraval Rd. Steel Band will perform a free, outdoor concert at SOU’s Hannon Library…
Stunning vistas, desert waterfalls, ancient cliffside ruins, wind-carved slot canyons, paint deserts, and surprising islands of life in a rugged, unforgettable land this is Grand Canyon Country:
I’ll be visiting McNary, McKay, and West Albany High Schools…
