Dr. Julia Gaines
Assistant Professor, Percussion
Office: 116 Loeb Hall
Phone: 573-882-0345
Fax: 573-884-5515
Email: GainesJu@missouri.edu
Dr. Julia Gaines joined the faculty of the School of Music at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1996 and is currently the Assistant Professor of Percussion. She conducts the University Percussion Ensemble, the World Percussion Ensemble, coaches the Graduate Percussion Ensemble, teaches Percussion Techniques and applied percussion lessons for approximately 16-18 music majors. She is also the Faculty Advisor to the MU Percussion Society a student organization that promotes percussion performance and education on the MU campus and throughout the mid-Missouri region.
Dr. Gaines received her DMA degree from the University of Oklahoma, her Master's degree as well as a Performer¹s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, and her Bachelor's degree from the Lawrence Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Dr. Gaines has performed with the Missouri Chamber Orchestra, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra, the Fox Valley Symphony, and the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra.
She has been the Vice-President and President of the Missouri Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society and is on the Promark Educational Advisory Board. She is currently serving a two-year term on the International Board of Directors of the Percussive Arts Society.
She has a history in drum corps culminating as a member of the 1989 Santa Clara Vanguard front ensemble. Recent notable percussion appearances have been at PASIC 2004 in Nashville, the 2005 International Hawaiian Conference on Arts & Humanities held in Honolulu, and the 12th Annual Puerto Rico Percussion Festival held in San Juan in August of 2005.
She was named a Big 12 Faculty Fellow in 2007 and participated in a Fellowship Exchange at Kansas State University for ten days. She also gave her solo debut in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in March of 2007 performing a work she commissioned for marimba and electronic sounds.
Dr. Gaines is a member of MENC, MMEA, PAS, MTNA, and Pi Kappa Lambda and is a Wakonse Alumni Fellow.