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Daniel Kirkpatrick
The South Carolina School of the Arts
The South Carolina School of the Arts
Part-Time Instructor, Percussion
dkirkpatrick@andersonuniversity.edu
- dkirkpatrick@andersonuniversity.edu
Academic Background
MM, Timpani Performance – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
BM Percussion Performance, minor in Music Theory – University of North Texas
Teaching at AU
What year did you start teacing at AU?
2011
How would you describe your classes to someone who has never attended one?
In Percussion Methods, I'll teach you everything I can about percussion in one semester! In Percussion Ensemble, I will teach you to work without a conductor and rely on your fellow musicians. In lessons, everything is tailored with work with your individual strengths and weaknesses.
Contact
dkirkpatrick@andersonuniversity.edu
Fast Facts
In Percussion Methods, I’ll teach you everything I can about percussion in one semester! In Percussion Ensemble, I will teach you to work without a conductor and rely on your fellow musicians. In lessons, everything is tailored with work with your individual strengths and weaknesses.
Percussion Methods, Percussion Ensemble, Applied Lessons
The students are wonderful people!
Hard work is expected and needed to succeed. However, just as is important is human networking – who you know may land you a job!
Designed and built a tuning mechanism for timpani, re(built) a timpani.
The student culture.
“Goodman Versus Duff – A Comparison of Two 20th-Century Timpanists.”
“Percussive Notes – The journal of the Percussive Arts Society Vol. 47, No. 2, (April, 2009). (http://www.pas.org)”
