Bob
Becker
.....Mallet
Clinic
Zampino's
Drum Shop and Malletech are sponsoring a clinic by Bob Becker
at Perry High School, Sunday, April 20, 2008. Bob will hold
a Master Class at 1:00 pm followed by a concert at 6:00 pm.
The event will be held in the Mattachione Theater and tickets
will be sold at the door at a cost of $5.00 per person. A ticket
purchased for the Master Class will also be honored for the
evening's concert.
Perry High School is located at 3737 13th St. SW, Massillon,
OH. For more information, you can contact Darin Good by phone
at 330-874-0123 (between 5:00 and 9:00 pm) or by email at
drumguy@adelphia.net.
There will be a reception in the high school band room immediately
following the concert.
As a founding member of the percussion ensemble NEXUS,
Bob Becker has been involved with the collection and construction
of a unique multi-cultural body of instruments as well as the
development of an extensive and eclectic repertoire of chamber
and concerto works for percussion.
Becker's performing experience spans nearly all of the musical
disciplines where percussion is found. He has been percussionist
for the Marlboro Music Festival and timpanist with the Marlboro
Festival Orchestra under Pablo Casals. He has also performed
and toured as timpanist with the Kirov Ballet and the Tafelmusik
Baroque Orchestra. For several years he toured as drummer and
percussionist with the Paul Winter Consort. He has performed
and recorded with such diverse groups as the Ensemble Intercontemporaine
under Pierre Boulez, the Ensemble Modern of Germany, the Schoenberg
Ensemble of Amsterdam, and the Boston Chamber Players.In 1988
he directed and performed in the show SuperPercussion
at the Tokyo Music Joy Festival, which brought together NEXUS,
the Korean percussion group Samul-Nori, drumset artist Steve
Gadd, and Ghanaian master drummer Abraham Adzenyah.