Percussion ensemble is an auditioned course. Please get in touch with Dr. Walsh to introduce yourself and set up an audition time for admission/placement. This course requires fluency in reading sheet music and an understanding of the "big three" percussion instruments: snare drum, keyboards, and timpani.

Repertoire will be picked at the beginning of each semester and distributed at the first class meeting. Students are expected to provide their own sticks/mallets unless otherwise indicated (for example, bass drum and gong mallets). 

This course focuses on two types of repertoire: historical music important to the development of percussion, and new music pushing the instrument forward. Each semester is a balance between these two focuses at the instructor's discretion.

Students will leave with having elevated their chamber music performance abilities and with an increased level of musicianship.