Michael Overman Percussionist

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1 Michael Overman Percussionist Curriculum Vitae 308 W. Bank Street Bridgewater, VA (540) Education Northwestern University, Doctor of Music, 2002 document: Four-mallet Marimba Pedagogy: a part practice approach Ithaca College, Master of Music, 1996 lecture: A Performer's Analysis of Joseph Schwantner's Velocities: moto perpetuo West Virginia University, Bachelor of Music & Bachelor of Arts-German, 1994 Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg, Germany, on a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship Current Positions James Madison University, Instructor of Music, 2005-present undergraduate and graduate applied percussion recital coaching studio masterclasses jury adjudication percussion ensemble percussion methods graduate assistant supervisor steel bands recruitment & auditions perform faculty solo and chamber recitals marching band front ensemble coach and arranger student workstudy supervisor percussion instrument inventory and maintenance Bridgewater College, Instructor of Music, 2012-present undergraduate applied percussion weekly masterclasses large ensemble sectionals jury adjudication

2 Past Positions Washington & Lee University, applied percussion percussion methods Beloit College, applied percussion percussion ensemble percussion instrument inventory and maintenance Maranatha Baptist Bible College, applied percussion assisted with percussion methods Watertown High School, Wisconsin, private lessons percussion ensemble Sun Prairie High School, Wisconsin, private and group lessons James Madison University, (see above) Marion Catholic High School, Chicago Heights, IL, private and group percussion and theory lessons Select Percussive Arts Society (PAS) International Percussion International Composition Contest, 2013 Activities adjudicator PAS International Convention (PASIC), 2012 All-Star Steel Band performance PASIC, 2011 professional marimba orchestra performance University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 2011, masterclass, clinic, percussion ensemble and steel band coaching American University of Cairo, Egypt, 2008 Nile Ruby, a ferry on the Nile River Al-Azhar Park, Cairo, Egypt Washington & Lee University Wind Ensemble, Concert Tour

3 Canora Hall, Okaya, Nagano, Japan, nd World Marimba Festival, solo performance National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, 1999 solo performance National Institute for the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, 1999 masterclass, clinic Cheng Hsing Hall, Tainan, Taiwan, 1999 solo performance Chung Hsing Hall, Taichung, Taiwan, 1999 solo performance Leigh Howard Stevens International Marimba Competition, Rochester, NY, 1998 five solo performances in six days, third place Rhythm Sticks Festival, London, England, 1998 performance NU Doctoral Percussion Quartet Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg, Germany, 1998 performance NU Doctoral Percussion Quartet PASIC, 1996 performance NU Percussion Ensemble Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg, Germany, numerous solo and chamber performances Select National Robert McCormick Marimba Festival, Tampa, FL, 2015 Activities conducted JMU Percussion Ensemble National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy (NCPP), 2014 Masterclass: The Marimba Roll a missing pedagogy Song & Story Fest, Burbank, OH, 2014 world percussion presentation/performance NCPP, 2013 presentation/performance: tonal snare drum NCPP, 2011 solo marimba performance

4 Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network National Conference, 2011 steel drum soloist NCPP, 2010 presentation: percussion methods class philosophy North American Brass Band Association (NABBA), 2006 solo marimba, chamber percussion, brass band performances Great American Brass Band Festival, Danville, KY, 2006 brass band performance Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, 2001, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 upcoming principal and section percussion, timpani Select Regional Activities Percussive Arts Society, Virginia/DC Chapter Shenandoah Valley District Representative, 2015-present March Mallet Madness, 2014 organized and facilitated four-day residency of Kevin Bobo, including clinics, masterclasses, rehearsals and performances; responsible for overall organization, travel arrangements, securing funding, and industry support St. Francis in the Americas: A Caribbean Mass by Glenn McClure, 2012 organized collaboration between JMU Steel Band and Schola Cantorum of Waynesboro, VA Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, 2011 organized collaboration between JMU Percussion Ensemble and Bridgewater College Oratorio Choir Collaboration between JMU Percussion Ensemble and Shenandoah Valley Children's Choir, 2011 organized numerous arrangers in creation of unique combination of musical forces Staunton Music Festival Happy New Ear!, 2011 Vera Ivanova Four Variations for Two, for flute and percussion, composer in audience March Mallet Madness Festival, JMU, 2009 guest artist percussion duo with David Helms clinic, masterclass, recital

5 Day of Steel Drums, 2008 organized and facilitated day long steel drum festival, including clinics, masterclasses, rehearsals and performances with four guest artists (Ellie Mannette, Chris Tanner, Anthony Hailey and Richard Rudolph) and two guest ensembles (Mosaic Steel Band and Quest Academy); responsible for overall organization and scheduling, travel arrangements, securing funding, and industry support Virginia PAS Day of Percussion, 2007 Mallet FUNdamentals Clinic Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, 2007 organized collaboration between JMU Percussion Ensemble and Bridgewater College Oratorio Choir Virginia Band & Orchestra Directors Association (VBODA), solo performance, 2006 Concerto for Percussion and Wind Orchestra by Steven Stuckey Southeast Horn Workshop, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA, 2006 Call of Boromir by Daniel McCarthy, with Abigail Pack Virginia PAS Day of Percussion, 2002 marimba clinic VBODA, solo performance, 2002 Concerto for Marimba and Band by David Maslanka Select Clinics & Virginia Tech, 2015 upcoming Masterclasses Shenandoah E.S. Steel Band, Luray, VA, 2014 Ithaca College, 2011 Tuscarora High School Steel Band, Leesburg, VA, 2011 Quest Academy Steel Band, Roanoke, VA, 2007 University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2004 Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, 2004 Minnesota State University Moorhead, 2004 University of Missouri, Columbia, 2003 Southwest Missouri State University, 2003 University of Nebraska Omaha, 2003 University of Kansas, Lawrence, 2003 University of Northern Iowa, 2003 Watertown High School, Wisconsin, 2003 Sun Prairie High School, Wisconsin, 2003 West Virginia University, Morgantown, 2002 University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, 2000

6 Select World Music Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, 2015 upcoming Presentations Wilson Elementary School, Fishersville, VA, 2014 Smithfield Elementary School, Harrisonburg, VA, 2015 Virginia State Winnebago Industries Travelers (WIT) Rally, Endless Caverns, VA, 2014 Sunnyside Retirement Community, Harrisonburg, VA International Festival, 2014 Stuarts Draft High School, VA, 2014 S. Gordon Stewart Middle School, Fort Defiance, VA, 2013 Kate Collins Middle School, Waynesboro, VA, 2012 Wilson Memorial High School, Fishersville, VA, 2012 Massanutten Regional Library, Harrisonburg, VA, 2012 Spotswood Elementary School, Harrisonburg, VA, 2012 Rockfish River Elementary School, Afton, VA 2010 Virginia Good Sam RV Rally, Rockingham County, VA, 2010 Virginia PAS Day of Percussion, Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester, VA, 2009 Thomas Harrison Middle School, Harrisonburg, VA, 2009 Augusta County Library, VA, 2009 Skyline Middle School, Harrisonburg, VA, 2009 Buena Vista RV Rally, Buena Vista, VA, 2008 Trevillians Elementary School, Louisa, VA 2008 Premiere Blue Ridge by Michael Burritt Performances world premiere, 2014 Farewell to Stromness by Peter Maxwell Davies marimba transcription, world premiere, 2014 New York Triptych by Gordon Stout world premiere, 2011 Quondam Reflections by Gordon Stout world premiere, 2011 Sedimental Structures by Gordon Stout Asian premiere, 1999 Desperate Attitudes by Gordon Stout world premiere, 1998 Nagoya Marimbas by Steve Reich United States premiere, 1995 Other Select Vertical River by Blake Tyson, 2015 Performances marimba / vibraphone duet with Blake Tyson

7 Marimba soloist with Shenandoah Valley Choral Society, 2014 A Star in the East by Malcolm Dalglish Marimba Soloist with JMU Madison Singers, 2014 Concerto for Marimba and Choir by Gene Koshinski Bridgewater College Convocation Series, 2014 Xylophone soloist with JMU Percussion Ensemble, 2013 Moonshine by Michael Overman Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies, 2012 composer in audience Xylophone soloist with JMU Percussion Ensemble, 2012 Black & Blue by Michael Overman Gray Cottage Studies by John Hollenbeck, 2011 composer in trio Steel Drum soloist with Ithaca College Steel Band, 2011 Xylophone soloist with JMU Percussion Ensemble, 2011 Girlfriends Medley by Bob Becker Marimba Soloist with JMU Percussion Ensemble, 2010 Rounders by Michael Burritt Chamber Symphony by Daniel McCarthy, 2009 composer in audience University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2008 Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich, 2008 composer in audience Soloist with JMU Wind Symphony, 2006 Concerto for Percussion and Wind Orchestra by Steven Stuckey composer in audience University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2004 Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, 2004

8 University of Missouri, Columbia, 2003 Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, 2003 University of Nebraska Omaha, 2003 University of Northern Iowa, Waterloo, 2003 West Virginia University, Morgantown, 2002 Soloist with JMU Wind Symphony, 2002 Concerto for Marimba and Band by David Maslanka composer in audience Soloist with Northwestern University Philharmonia, 1998 The Glory and the Grandeur by Russell Peck Soloist with WVU Symphony Orchestra, 1990 Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints by Alan Hovhaness Professional Ensembles University-Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra, 2005-present principal timpani & principal percussion Virginia Sinfonietta, 2014-present contemporary chamber orchestra, founding member; players from across Virginia; booked as guest ensemble for JMU's 2016 Contemporary Music Festival Od-Tapo-Imi, professional steel band Beloit-Janesville Symphony Orchestra, principal percussion Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, section percussion MeloMania!, Chamber ensemble (two saxophones, cello, piano, percussion) performing music written since 1945, and premiering newly commissioned works; founding member; performed throughout Chicago area, Wisconsin and North Dakota

9 Pantet, Ithaca, NY, freelance steel drum sextet; founder, director Elmira-Corning Symphony, section percussion Contemporary Chamber Players of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Educational Northwestern University, Ensembles Percussion Ensemble, Philharmonia Contemporary Music Ensemble Ithaca College, Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra Jazz Workshop vibraphone Percussion Ensemble Steel Bands director Marimba Ragtime Band Contemporary Chamber Ensemble Wind Ensemble timpani West Virginia University, Gamelan Ensemble Steel Band Symphony Orchestra principal percussion Wind Ensemble Percussion Ensemble African Ensemble Ragtime Marimba Band Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, Germany, Perkussion Ensemble Hochschule Orchester Recordings Each One's Different Like a Work of Art, 2013 Michael Stern singer-songwriter based in Seattle, WA Anyone Can Sing, 2012 Yurtfolk (L. Harley and B. Kruschwitz) children's music, original and from around the world Songs from the Heart, 2010 Shenandoah Valley Children's Choir Momentum, 2005 Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Apotheosis of This Earth: Music of Karel Husa, 2002 Ithaca College Wind Symphony

10 Grants Received International Development Grant, JMU Office of International Programs, 2010 funding to bring Dr. Anthony Hailey to campus for clinic and performance International Development Grant, JMU Office of International Programs, 2008 funding to bring Dr. Ellie Mannette to campus for clinic, lecture, and performance Commissions Passageways by Baljinder Sekhon, 2015 consortium member Blue Ridge by Michael Burritt, 2014 consortium organizer Elements by Kevin Bobo, 2012 consortium organizer Quondam Reflections by Gordon Stout, 2011 consortium organizer Compositions Amani Music, 2013 steel band (my compositions Never Mined, 2012 are self-published, percussion ensemble available on my Left Turn 'Layne, 2011 website) steel band Rashly Swilling, 2010 marimba etude Fish Whistling, 2010 steel band Boboesque, 2010 marimba etude...to Gordon Stout, 2009 marimba etude Beloeb's Song, 2009 steel band Milo (?), 2004 marimba etude I have also created numerous arrangements in a wide variety of styles for the various steel bands I have directed. Some of them are available at my website. Primary Teachers Michael Burritt, Northwestern University currently at Eastman School of Music James Ross, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Leigh Howard Stevens, Summer Marimba Seminar Gordon Stout, Ithaca College Phil Faini, West Virginia University (retired)

11 Significant Anders Åstrand, 1997 Masterclass Bill Cahn, 1997 Teachers Evelyn Glennie, 1996 Keiko Abe, 1995 Notable Honors & Leigh Howard Stevens International Marimba Competition, Awards Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, 3rd place, 1998 Northwestern University Doctoral Assistantship, Ithaca College Graduate Teaching Assistantship, West Virginia University College of Creative Arts Outstanding Graduate Award, 1994 Presser Foundation Scholar, 1991 National Merit Scholarship, Professional National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy (NCPP), Memberships College Music Society (CMS), Pi Kappa Lambda National Honor Society, inducted 1996 Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, inducted 1994 Percussive Arts Society (PAS), 1989-