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The members of our faculty are more than teachers. They’ll be your mentors, your collaborators, and your instant list of more than 500 industry contacts. They are experienced and talented professionals in their field—and bring a thorough knowledge of music to the classroom that comes from a rich professional background in the music industry. They also bring an energy that will inspire you to push your talents and thinking beyond what you thought were the limits. You’ll find yourself transferring their influences to your ensemble rehearsals, performances, recording sessions, and gigs. In addition, the student-teacher ratio averages 8 to 1. Which means you’ll never feel like a number.

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Steve Wilkes, Professor

DEPARTMENT : Percussion Department

"Student demand for technology in percussion is peaking. I teach four different courses that are either directly about technology or peripherally involve it. Students really need to be adept at the technology, so that they can get the jobs that will define the musical landscape in the future. In ten to fifteen years, the landscape of drumming is going to change drastically. Today, when you think of a band you think drum set, guitar, bass, singer. In the future, I think many bands are just as likely to be comprised of electronic drummer, keyboard, guitar, and singer."

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Nancy Zeltsman, Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT : Percussion Department

"One of the hardest things about playing marimba is that you need an eight-and-a-half-foot wingspan. Note accuracy is the bane of our existence. A bar of a marimba is something like an inch and a half wide, so as you're flailing around over eight and a half feet, the challenge is to be able to swing a mallet and hit the right target. We like that people enjoy a concert, aside from the beautiful sound, because it's fun to watch."

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