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1 Garwood Whaley began his study of drums and percussion with Juilliard graduate Bruce Tucker in Tarrytown, New York. At Tucker s suggestion, he auditioned and was accepted at the Juilliard School where he studied for two years with Morris (Moe) Goldenberg and three years as a scholarship student with Saul Goodman. Goodman had recently sent Anthony Cirone to the San Francisco Symphony and promised Whaley the next position Goodman was asked to fill. Goodman referred to Whaley as one of his most talented students. While at Juilliard, he free lanced in New York and began giving private lessons at the White Plains Academy of Music and Art in White Plains, NY. Upon graduation, Gar performed with Paul Lavalle and The World s Fair Band of America during the 1965 World s Fair. In October of 1965 he received a draft notice and auditioned for the United States Army Band at the West Point Military Academy. No positions were available there but Captain Eugene Allen, the auditioning officer, immediately called the Army Band in Washington, DC and procured a position for Whaley with that band. During his six years as percussionist with the United States Army Band Pershing s Own, Gar gigged and began teaching, building a studio of around fifty students at all performance levels. It was during this period that he began writing instructional books to fill what he perceived as a void in the pedagogical percussion literature. Positions Garwood Whaley received degrees from the Juilliard School and The Catholic University of America where he earned a doctor of musical arts degree while performing with the United States Army Band, Pershing s Own. While a member of the Army Band, he performed several times as soloist including a performance of Milhaud s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra (band arrangement). He is conductor emeritus of the Bishop Ireton Symphonic Wind Ensemble in Alexandria, Virginia, former adjunct professor of music at The Catholic University of America, past president of the Percussive Arts Society, former curriculum coordinator of instrumental music for the Diocese of Arlington Schools, former chief editor for Music for Percussion, Inc., and president and founder of Meredith Music Publications (1979). As director of Meredith Music, he has been responsible for the publication of some of the most exceptional performance and educational materials available today. More than 400 composers and authors are included in the Meredith catalog. While serving for thirty years as Curriculum Coordinator of Instrumental Music for the Diocese of Arlington Schools (VA), he was responsible for the administration of instrumental music in twenty-nine schools. During his tenure, he established a yearly honor band, an annual band festival and was responsible for providing instrumental music education to thousands of students in Catholic Schools in the Northern Virginia area. While in the Army Band he taught percussion at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and later served as adjunct professor of music at Catholic University teaching private lessons, percussion methods and courses in music education. As a percussion instructor at Catholic University, he organized the first percussion ensemble, whose members included Doug Howard, John Rudolph, Dick Ecton, Frank Cocuzzi and Randy Eyles. Publications

2 Gar wrote his first book in 1965 and since then has become one of the best known and best selling writers of percussion method books of all time with more than 300,000 copies of his books sold worldwide. His first book (co authored) written in 1965 was later published in 1974 by JR Publications titled Rhythmic Patterns of Contemporary Music; a collection of original etudes based on rhythms of composers Bartok, Stravinsky, Carter and others. It became the first book of its kind to explore contemporary compositional devices written specifically for percussionists as an instructional text. A series of books for beginning and intermediate percussionists followed including Fundamental Studies for Snare Drum, Fundamental Studies for Mallets, Fundamental Studies for Timpani, Musical Studies for the Intermediate Timpanist, Recital Pieces for Mallets, Intermediate Duets for Snare Drum, Four-Mallet Technical Studies and the best selling title Musical Studies for the Intermediate Snare Drummer. In 1979, Whaley founded Meredith Music Publications and continued writing for percussion instruments. These new titles included method and solo collections: Primary Handbook for Snare Drum, Primary Handbook for Mallets, Primary Handbook for Timpani, Recital Duets for Snare Drum, Recital Solos for Snare Drum, Solos and Duets for Snare Drum, Solos and Duets for Timpani, Concert Solos for the Intermediate Snare Drummer, Rhythm Reading For Drums (books 1 & 2), Musical Studies for the Intermediate Mallet Player, 4 Mallet Exercises, Audition Etudes, Basics in Rhythm, More Basics in Rhythm and More Audition Etudes. His works for solo and ensembles include: Dialogue for Snare Drum and Timpani, Scherzo for Timpani, Statement for Timpani, Essay for Snare Drum, Etude in 32 nd s, 3 Movements for 2 Drums, Introduction and March and Etude for Percussion Quartet. In all, he has written more than thirty works for percussion instruments that have become standard international repertoire and helped to train thousands of students worldwide. Meredith Music Publications As president and founder of Meredith Music Publications, Whaley has been responsible for the publication of some of the most exceptional performance and educational materials available today. Percussion author/composers included in the Meredith Catalog include: Ronald Horner, Charles Dowd, Morris Lang, Bill Cahn, Anthony Cirone, Gerald Carlyss, John Beck, Roland Kohloff, Fred Begun, Brad Stirtz, Guy Gauthreaux, Dominick Cuccia, Al Payson, John Pratt, James Campbell, George Hamilton Green, Dick Sisto, Lynn Glassock, Randy Eyles, Neil Grover, Jack Van Geem, Harry Breuer, Bart Quartier, Paul Henley, Paul Buyer, Michael Colgrass, Tim Huesgan, Bob Becker, Willis Rapp, Clair Omar Musser, Tim Genis, Ed Soph, Michael Udow, Joe Sinai, Paul Henley, David Herbert, Dean Borghesani, Patrick Roulet, Russ Girsberger, Robert Snider, Steve Grimo, Warren Benson, Rick Mattingly, William James and Garwood Whaley. In addition, there are fifty-seven authors contained in The Drum and Percussion Cookbook with royalties from this publication going directly to the Percussive Arts Society. Percussive Arts Society During the late 1960 s Gar wrote a feature article for PAS while a member of the United States Army Band, Pershing s Own that included a photo of the band s 2

3 percussion section that became the issues cover. He organized and became the first president of the Virginia chapter of PAS and assisted host Randy Eyles with the Washington PASIC in Gar became chairman of the PAS Education Committee and produced the first commercial educational publication for PAS entitled Percussion Education: A Source Book of Concepts and Information. He was later elected to the PAS executive board where he served for ten years as second vice president, vice president and president where his popularity as president led to a second term. During his four-year term he introduced the President s Industry Award, the Outstanding PAS Service Award and by calling on all major sustaining members, developed a membership campaign that brought PAS membership to over eight thousand. For the past several years, he provided a $1,000 PAS/Meredith Music Publications Grant for a Non-Percussionist Band Director to attend PASIC. Awards During his career, Gar has received numerous awards including: Outstanding Secondary Educators of America Award, Outstanding National Catholic Bandmaster, The National Band Association s Citation of Excellence, The National Federation Interscholastic Music Association Outstanding Music Educator Award, Bandworld s Legion of Honor administered by the John Philip Sousa Foundation and has been included in Who s Who in American Music, Who s Who in America and the International Who s Who in Music. In 1993 he was inducted in Kappa Delta Pi and in 1994 received the Alumni Achievement Award in the field of Education from The Catholic University of America. This annual award presented by the Board of Governors Alumni Association, recognized his accomplishments and honored him for his life s work in education. In 2002, he was inducted as an associate member into the American Bandmasters Association. For five years he received a Grant in the Arts from the Washington Post Newspaper s Educational Foundation for his "Commissioned Work and Composer-In-The School Project." In 1998, Bishop Ireton High School named its new performance hall the "Garwood Whaley Auditorium" in recognition of his long-term contributions to the fine arts. He is the recipient of the 2011 Midwest Clinic s prestigious Music Industry Award. Students A number of Dr. Whaley s students have gone on to successful careers in music and the arts including: Dean Borghesani, principal timpanist, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Patrick Roulet, director of percussion studies, Western Washington University: Jake Odmark, Flash in the Broadway production of Spiderman; Brendon Caldwell, director of bands, Baldwin Wallace; Juan M. Ponciano, Vice President, PostHaste Music; Claire Walker MacHenry, music therapist, Capital Music Therapy Services; et al. Bishop Ireton Wind Ensemble 3

4 Achieving international recognition under his direction, The Bishop Ireton Wind Ensemble performed concert tours for twenty-seven years in Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, Finland, Wales, Austria, Luxembourg, Holland, Belgium, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Denmark. For a quarter of a century, he commissioned a new work each year. Composers include: Michael Djupstrom, Frederick Speck, James Syler, Steve Rouse, David Froom, Tom Duffy, Warren Benson, Michael Weinstein, Mark Camphouse, Stephen Melillo, David Maslanka, Ron Nelson Elliot Del Borgo, William Schaefer, Robert Jager, Floyd Werle, Barney Childs, David-Ward Steinman, Elliott Schwartz and Robert Washburn. In addition, the ensemble performed twenty-nine (annual) combined concerts with university and professional bands including the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army Field Band, U.S. Naval Academy Band, U.S. Air Force Ceremonial Brass, U.S. Army Brass Band, The National Concert Band of America, the Eternal Winds of Washington, and band/ensembles from James Madison University, Radford University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Villanova University, Shenandoah Conservatory, Catholic University, Old Dominion University, University of Georgia, Harvard University, Yale University and George Mason University. The Ensemble and its conductor were featured in the June 1991 BD Guide article "More than Just Performance and in the May 2000 Instrumentalist article "From Struggling Ensemble to a Band of Distinction. Clinics Gar s popular clinics, Solving Rhythm Problems in the Instrumental and Choral Ensemble and The Rehearsal: Teaching More Than Notes have been presented throughout the United States including: A Balanced Mind Conference (New York) Arizona Music Educators Association Conference California Music Educators Association Conference Delaware Music Educators Clinic Georgia Music Educators Conference Illinois Music Educators All-State Conference Iowa Music Educators Convention Jim Swearingen Band Directors Clinic (Columbus, Ohio) The Juilliard School Conducting Workshop for Music Educators Kansas Music Educators Association In-Service Workshop Kennedy Center Professional Teacher Outreach Program Maryland Music Educators Association Conference Mid West Band and Orchestra Clinic Michigan Music Conference Missouri Music Educators Association Convention Music Educators National Conference Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah MENC Eastern Division Convention, Baltimore, Maryland MENC North Western Division Convention, Spokane, Washington Nebraska Music Educators Conference 4

5 New England Band Directors Institute New Jersey Music Educators Association Convention New York State School Music Association Summer Clinic (Buffalo) New York State School Music Association Winter Clinic (Rochester) North Carolina Music Educators Association Conference North Dakota Music Educator Conference Ohio Music Educators Association Conference OMEA/CMIEC Conference, Ontario, Canada Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Annual Conference Rhode Island Music Educators Association Convention Tennessee Music Educator Conference Texas Bandmasters Association Convention Texas Music Educators Association Convention Total Band Director Workshop IV, Wichita, Kansas VanderCook College of Music Virginia Music Educators Association Conference Wisconsin Music Educators Association Convention His charities, both personal and corporate through Meredith Music Publications have provided thousands of dollars to individuals and organizations that promote music and provide music education opportunities. He lives with his wife Adele and Welsh terrier in Delray Beach, Florida. 5

86 87 INDUSTRY ICON SERIES GARWOOD WHALEY INSPIRATIONAL LEADER article By Gary France Garwood Whaley is a name synonymous with excellence in the percussion writing for percussion instruments.

He is one of the best selling writers of percussion method collections: Primary Handbook for Snare Drum, Primary Handbook for Mallets, books of all time with more than 300,000 copies of his books

Primary Handbook for Timpani, Recital Duets for Snare Drum, Recital Solos for His commitment to the Percussive Arts Society is evidenced through his service Snare Drum, Solos and Duets for Snare

Concert Solos for the Intermediate Snare Drummer, Rhythm Reading For Drums His innovative leadership and vision developed a membership campaign that (books 1 & 2), Musical Studies for the

Garwood Whaley received Exercises, Audition Etudes, Basics in Rhythm, More Basics in Rhythm and degrees from the Juilliard School and The Catholic University of America More Audition Etudes.

Essay United States Army Band, Pershing s Own.

Percussion Quartet. In all, he has written more than Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra (band arrangement).

by JR Publications titled The Rhythmic Patterns of Contemporary Music; a Garwood Whaley is widely recognized as a conductor, composer, performer collection of original etudes based on rhythms of

It became the first book of its kind to explore contemporary within the music profession. As president and founder of Meredith Music compositional devices written specifically for percussionists.

6 86 87 INDUSTRY ICON SERIES GARWOOD WHALEY INSPIRATIONAL LEADER article By Gary France Garwood Whaley is a name synonymous with excellence in the percussion writing for percussion instruments. These new titles included method and solo industry worldwide. He is one of the best selling writers of percussion method collections: Primary Handbook for Snare Drum, Primary Handbook for Mallets, books of all time with more than 300,000 copies of his books sold worldwide. Primary Handbook for Timpani, Recital Duets for Snare Drum, Recital Solos for His commitment to the Percussive Arts Society is evidenced through his service Snare Drum, Solos and Duets for Snare Drum, Solos and Duets for Timpani, for ten years as second vice president, vice president and two-term presidency. Concert Solos for the Intermediate Snare Drummer, Rhythm Reading For Drums His innovative leadership and vision developed a membership campaign that (books 1 & 2), Musical Studies for the Intermediate Mallet Player, 4 Mallet grew PAS membership to over eight thousand people. Garwood Whaley received Exercises, Audition Etudes, Basics in Rhythm, More Basics in Rhythm and degrees from the Juilliard School and The Catholic University of America More Audition Etudes. His works for solo and ensembles include: Dialogue for where he earned a doctor of musical arts degree while performing with the Snare Drum and Timpani, Scherzo for Timpani, Statement for Timpani, Essay United States Army Band, Pershing s Own. As a member of the Army Band, for Snare Drum, Etude in 32nd s, 3 Movements for 2 Drums, Introduction he performed several times as soloist including a performance of Milhaud s and March and Etude for Percussion Quartet. In all, he has written more than Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra (band arrangement). thirty works for percussion instruments that have become standard repertoire His first book (co authored) written in 1965 was later published in 1974 worldwide. by JR Publications titled The Rhythmic Patterns of Contemporary Music; a Garwood Whaley is widely recognized as a conductor, composer, performer collection of original etudes based on rhythms of composers Bartok, Stravinsky, and educator for his achievements through numerous significant awards from Carter and others. It became the first book of its kind to explore contemporary within the music profession. As president and founder of Meredith Music compositional devices written specifically for percussionists. A series of books Publications, Whaley has been responsible for the publication of some of the for beginning and intermediate percussionists followed including Fundamental most exceptional performance and educational materials available today. His Studies for Snare Drum, Fundamental Studies for Mallets, Fundamental charities, both personal and corporate-through Meredith Music Publicationshave provided thousands of dollars to individuals and organizations that Studies for Timpani, Musical Studies for the Intermediate Timpanist, Recital Pieces for Mallets, Intermediate Duets for Snare Drum, Four-Mallet Technical promote music and provide music education opportunities. He lives with his Studies and the best selling title Musical Studies for the Intermediate Snare wife Adele and Welsh terrier Blossom in Delray Beach, Florida. Drummer. I caught up with Garwood (Gar) at PASIC 2013 for a chat and am pleased In 1979, Whaley founded Meredith Music Publications and continued to present this interview/portrait of this inspirational musician. Having studied and taught from many of your fantastic publications, it is a real honour to share time with you discussing your incredible career. From early on, your leadership in composing and publishing percussion music has set an example of best practice in combining educational and artistic pathways. How has the publishing industry changed and where do you see our future going. Unfortunately there seems to be a lack of creativity in many publications coming out today. I see a lot of copy cat publications. That is, taking the best from successful method books and pirating that material into new publications. Another lack-of-creativity approach is to use the same material over and over from one book to the next. On another note, with the new era of digital printing, self-publishing and the Internet, it is much easier to have things published by the individual. However, distribution is a problem and the cost is often prohibitive. In my opinion, it is best to seek out an established, reputable publisher who can help with distribution, marketing and both hard copy and electronic edition production. With thousands of young people pursuing careers in percussion education, performance and research, what advice would you give to the: beginner, first year university student and university graduate looking for their first job. Don t quit, stick with it! It is not easy to break into any profession in the arts. Although I was trained as a symphonic percussionist, most of my career has been in music education, conducting and publishing. This is nothing that I planned but it s the way my life led me. So you never know what path life will take you. My best advice is to work hard at what you do, be prepared-because you never know when an opportunity will present itself-and don t be afraid to go where life leads you. A drummer/percussionist might end up as a professional performer or in some other area in the arts. Or, perhaps in a totally different field. A great number of medical doctors and computer engineers have strong backgrounds in music. The ability to multi-task, as most drummers can, is a common trait among corporate executive officers! As a performer, composer and conductor you have article CUA Orchestra Percussion worked with numerous luminaries throughout your career. Many of us hear of the giants of the past, names like Morris Goldenberg, Saul Goodman, and Henry Adler to name a few. Would you be willing to share some of your experiences/anecdotes about your time with them as student and colleague? I consider myself to be extremely fortunate to have spent five years at Juilliard studying with Morris (Moe) Goldenberg and Saul Goodman-what an experience! Not only my studies with them, but the students that I was surrounded by served as inspirations and colleagues including Anthony Cirone (San Francisco Symphony), Eugene Espino (Cincinnati Symphony), Gerry Carlyss (Philadelphia Orchestra), Jimmie Rago (Louisville Symphony), Rick Holmes (St. Louis Symphony), Dick Ecton (U.S. Army Band), Wilson Moreman (N.Y. City Freelance), Bob Ayres (N.Y. City Freelance, Broadway Show percussion), David Goldberg (N.Y. City Ballet), David Friedman (International Jazz Artist), Lee Beach (New Orleans Symphony), Gordon Gottlieb (Juilliard, New York Philharmonic) and others. My fifty-year friendship with Anthony (Tony) Cirone led to our publication of a number of tremendous works of his and, our collaboration, together with Neil Grover, on several titles including The Art of Percussion Playing. Several years ago I appointed Tony as senior editor of percussion publications for my company Meredith Music Publications. From Moe Goldenberg I learned how to sight-read and studied lots of percussion literature. From Saul I learned the importance of sub dividing which he insisted on. I learned the interpretation of symphonic timpani parts that he had developed over the years from conductors like Toscanini, Mahler, Bernstein and countless others. People comment on the musicality of my percussion writing, which when I started composing was not common in the percussion literature of the day. I credit any musicality that I may have to my years at Juilliard being surrounded by talented students and fantastic teachers and the creativity that the school encouraged. One of my most prized possessions is an autographed picture from my teacher Saul Goodman with the inscription: To Gar Whaley, one of my most gifted and musical students. For more information on Garwood Whaley please go to What is on the horizon for you, any new projects, books etc. in the pipeline? There s always something new at Meredith Music Publications! Right now we are doing a series of three books on the interpretation of timpani parts for the nine Mahler Symphonies by David Herbert (Chicago Symphony). We have a series of Marimba books by former student Patrick Roulet titled Christmas Carols for Marimba, Folk Songs for Marimba and Church Hymns for Marimba. We just published an exciting work by my former student Dean Borghesani (Milwaukee Symphony) titled Turbo for 4 Timpani. And just released is The Modern Concert Snare Drum Roll by St. Louis Symphony principal percussionist William James. We are publishing a series of intermediate method books for all brass and woodwind instruments and have several new pedagogical texts coming out on conducting, musical interpretation and an exciting new comprehensive musicianship series titled Guides to Band Masterworks. TUSAB Percussion 86 DRUMscene PERCUSscene Issue4911 Issue 1149 PERCUSscene DRUMscene 87

Kelsey Tamayo, D.M.A. Percussionist, Conductor, Educator, Music Theorist

Kelsey Tamayo, D.M.A. Percussionist, Conductor, Educator, Music Theorist Curriculum Vitae Educational Background Michigan State University, the College of Music; 2012-2015 Doctor of Musical Arts in Percussion