Tentative dates: January 7-19, 2013
Application deadline: September 24, 2012
The MU International Center and School of Music sponsor the inaugural year of their January intersession faculty-led program in Trinidad. MU professor Julia Gaines will lead a two-week, three credit hour program that is open to both MU undergraduate and graduate students, as well as non-MU enthusiasts with an interest in steel pans. Download a flyer here.
MU Graduate Percussion Ensemble Video
The University of Missouri Graduate Ensemble recorded this piece in the Summer of 2011 at the MU Corner Playhouse. This is the second movement from Emmanuel Sejourne's Martians Tribes.
New Book
Dr. Gaines first book, Sequential Studies for Four-Mallet Marimba, Level 1 will be published this Fall. This book breaks down four-mallet marimba technique from the very beginning. It includes 8 new etudes and pieces for beginning marimba by Julia Gaines, Brian Tate, Keith Larson, Tracy Thomas, and Ricardo Souza. For more information on this book, please see www.marimbalevels.com
April 23, 8 pm
University Percussion Ensemble Concert Missouri Theatre
May 1, 8 pm
University Wind Ensemble Concert
Performing visiting composer John Mackey's Drum Music: Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble Featuring Dr. Julia Gaines, Soloist Missouri Theatre
Dr. Gaines first book, Sequential Studies for Four-Mallet Marimba, Level 1 will be published this Fall. This book breaks down four-mallet marimba technique from the very beginning. It includes 8 new etudes and pieces for beginning marimba by Julia Gaines, Brian Tate, Keith Larson, Tracy Thomas, and Ricardo Souza. For more information on this book, please see 