The Vanderbilt Percussion Group masters "Omphalo Centric Lecture" by Nigel Westlake

The Vanderbilt Percussion Group 2022-23 first-year class performing "Omphalo Centric Lecture" by Nigel Westlake. Featured student performers include Alex Holloway, Sarang Shravan, Matthew Oh, and Riley Hale.
Vanderbilt Percussion Group is the Blair School of Music's percussion chamber music ensemble. VPG's repertoire includes contemporary classical works for both traditional and nonconventional percussion. Recent commissions include composers Emma O'Halloran, Alejandro Vinao, Jury Seo, Adam Silverman, Suzanna Hancock, Aeryn Santillan, Fiona Merivale, Shruthu Rajasekar, and Jonathan Bingham
Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music offers a world class music education, exclusively for undergraduates, at a Top 15 university. With a student to faculty ratio of 4:1, Blair's areas of study include strings, woodwinds, brass, voice, keyboards, jazz studies, percussion, composition, music education, and more. Vanderbilt University is located in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Blair School of Music Faculty:
• Ji Hye Jung, Associate Professor of Percussion; Director of the Percussion Program
• W. Lee Vinson, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Percussion
Video production: Continuous Motion Productions
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Ji Hye Jung is Associate Professor of Percussion at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music and principal percussionist with the west coast-based chamber music ensemble Camerata Pacifica. An advocate for new music, she has commissioned works by Kevin Puts, Emma O'Halloran, Annika Scolofsky, Bora Yoon, Molly Herron, Christopher Theofanidis, Alejandro Viñao, Lukas Ligeti, Paul Lansky, Jason Treuting, Michael Torke, David Bruce, Huang Ruo, and John Serry.
Ms. Jung garnered consecutive first prizes at the 2006 Linz International Marimba Competition and the 2007 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition while completing a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. As an artist endorser, she proudly represents Pearl/Adams instruments, Vic Firth sticks and mallets, and Zildjian cymbals.
W. Lee Vinson is a classical percussionist, music educator, and snare drum historian with an extensive background in symphony orchestra performance. For four seasons, from 2007 through 2011, he was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and from 2000 to 2004 served as a member of the United States Navy Band in Washington, DC. Mr. Vinson holds a bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music where he was a student of John Beck, and has done graduate study at Boston University. He also attended summer music festivals at Interlochen, Tanglewood, and the Brevard Music Center.
An active performer, Mr. Vinson has appeared with the orchestras of Detroit, Toronto, Houston, Atlanta, Colorado, Kansas City, and Nashville. A dedicated music educator, Mr. Vinson was a guest lecturer at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York during the 2014 - 2015 academic year while also serving on the music faculty of the University of Kansas in an adjunct capacity. He was previously a faculty member at Boston University and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He presently serves as Adjunct Associate Professor of Percussion at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music in Nashville, Tenn.
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