Curtis Hartshorn is a music composer, performer, and educator living in Boston, MA who specializes in drumset and percussion. This is the concert program of the Boston University Percussion Ensemble performance on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue.
Admissions into the New England Conservatory is moderately competitive, with approximately 30 percent of applicants offered admission each year. In 2010 Curtis earned a Bronze medal with the Corps. Depending on your cost tolerance and public/private preference, and of course, the type of percussion pursuit, you may want to take a peek at University of Michigan. Currently head of the percussion department at Boston University, he also runs the BUTI percussion program at Tanglewood and is an active clinician for the Zildjian Cymbal Company, Remo Drum Company, Perl/Adams Drums, and Vic Firth, Inc. The school of music is conservatory-like, but you can dual degree or take minors; the school is strong in … The Hofstra University Percussion, Summer Seminar (HUPSS) is a unique, pre-collegiate music intensive for students in grades 7-12 who desire an extraordinary experience learning many styles of percussion, with world-class instructors and performers.
Upon completing his formal education, Mr. Bisesi was appointed to the Percussion Faculties at both Boston University and the prestigious Boston University Tanglewood Institute. As a high school student Curtis performed 2 seasons with the Boston University Winter Percussion Ensemble and later joined the Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps. With over 34,000 part-time and full-time undergraduate and graduate students and nearly 10,000 faculty and staff spread across 17 schools and colleges, BU’s three city campuses are always humming. Look to Boston University faculty to deliver breaking news from national networks or experience it firsthand. The oceanfront campus is minutes from downtown Boston and nationally recognized as a student-centered urban public research university. Famous professors include news anchor Katie Couric, executive editor of the Frost-Nixon interviews Robert Zelnick and Attorney General Eric Holder. Works performed were "Melody Competition" by Evan Ziporyn, "Canon alla Ottava from The Art of Fugue" by Johann Sebastian Bach, "Canon for Three Equal Voices: in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky" by Elliott Carter, … Excerpts of a performance by the Boston University Percussion Ensemble at the "Percussion Night" concert at Everett High School in April of 2011. A Tanglewood Music Center fellow in 1990, Mr. Genis also attended the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.
Nearly half of the members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra have ties to the school, while Boston itself is a vibrant music community with several regional orchestras and performance ensembles. The item La cliquette, : un instrument de percussion égyptien de l'époque copte represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries. Boston University is a major global research institution, creating breakthroughs in everything from African studies to zebrafish genetics. As a student, Mr. Bisesi was a fellow of the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, and The Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts. Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel teaches at BU too.