NEW MEXICO PERCUSSION EVENTS

This list is constantly being updated, so visit often. If you know of an event that’s not listed, let me know and I’ll post it. Also, I can’t list all of the events happening in the area so I encourage you to visit the web sites listed in the “Music Links” section of this web page.

Spring 2008:

• Aaron Morales, Master of Music Percussion Degree Recital. Saturday, January 26, 6:00 p.m., Keller Hall, free.
• Percussion Afternoon. Sunday, February 10, 3:00 p.m., Keller Hall, free.
• Masterclass with Dennis Mackrel – Friday, February 15, 10:00-11:30 a.m. in B117.
  

  Dennis is one the great jazz drummers of our time, having performed with The Carla Bley Very Large Band, Slide Hampton and the Jazz Masters, The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni Band, The Manhattan Symphony Jazz Orchestra, The Carnegie Hall Classic Jazz Orchestra, The Hank Jones Trio, The Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, The Smithsonian Jazz Orchestra, and The American Jazz Orchestra. In February of 1990, Mel Lewis chose Dennis as his successor for the drum chair in The Mel Lewis/Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. Dennis was also a featured soloist in the West Coast Premier of Charles Mingus' Epitaph.

• Percussion Ensemble. Wednesday, March 5, 7:30 p.m., Keller Hall, $7/$5/$3.
• Scott Ney, Faculty Percussion Recital. Saturday, March 8, 7:30 p.m., Keller Hall, $10/$7/$3. (rescheduled from February 25th)