Short press bio
Dr. Glenn Schaft is Associate Professor and Director of Percussion Studies at Youngstown State University where he has served since 1996. He directs the YSU Percussion Ensemble, teaches private and group lessons, performs with the Faculty Jazz Group, serves as faculty advisor for the Youngstown Percussion Collective, and is founder of the SMARTS RHYTHMS Drum Circle Educational Outreach Program. His performance and teaching credits include over thirty-three years of experience in classical, contemporary, world, jazz/improvised, and popular music. He is an educational endorser with Zildjian, ProMark, Remo, and Black Swamp Percussion. He has performed and presented clinics throughout the United States and China. He is a member of the Percussive Arts Society and serves on the College Pedagogy Committee and the Drumset Educators Committee.
For further information please contact geschaft@ysu.edu or www.ysu.edu/percussion
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Long press bio
Dr. Glenn Schaft is Associate Professor and Director of Percussion Studies at Youngstown State University where he has served since 1996. He directs the YSU Percussion Ensemble, teaches private and group lessons, performs with the Faculty Jazz Group, serves as faculty advisor for the Youngstown Percussion Collective, and is founder of the SMARTS RHYTHMS Drum Circle Educational Outreach Program. Glenn hosted the 2006 PAS Ohio Day of Percussion and three Afro-Cuban Arts Festivals at YSU. He produced and performed on the recently released recording Dark Wood featuring the YSU Percussion Ensemble and the Youngstown Percussion Collective. He is an educational endorser with Avedis Zildjian, ProMark, Remo, and Black Swamp Percussion. He has performed and presented clinics and masterclasses throughout the United States and China. He is a member of the Percussive Arts Society and serves on the College Pedagogy Committee and the Drumset Educators Committee. He recently completed a sabbatical leave to begin writing a drumset book.
His
performance credits include over 33 years of orchestral percussion,
contemporary music, world music, and diverse drumset experience. He has toured
the United States, Cuba, and China and has performed with the Colorado Music
Festival, Youngstown Percussion Collective, Battu World Percussion Group, Akron
Symphony, Youngstown Symphony, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Ohio Chamber
Orchestra, Cleveland Ballet, Cleveland Opera, Chuck Berry, Stewart Copeland,
Paquito D”Rivera, Jim McNeely, Sean Jones, Chip Stephens, Dan Wall, Allison
Krauss, Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Marvin Stamm, and numerous others. He appears
as soloist on Dave Morgan’s Reactions
for drumset and wind band recorded with the YSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble on
their 2005 release Spin Cycle, winner
of the Downbeat magazine award for
Outstanding College Wind Ensemble Recording.
Glenn earned
the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
with Tom Siwe, the Master of Arts from Eastern Illinois University with Johnny
Lee Lane, and the Bachelor of Music from Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory
with George Kiteley. He pursued post-doctoral studies and served as a graduate
assistant/manager of the New Music Associates a professional ensemble in-residence
at Cleveland State University and studied contemporary music with Edwin London.
He has studied with Tom Freer and Jay Burnham of the Cleveland Orchestra,
drumset with John Riley, Lewis Nash, John Hollenbeck, and Harold Damas,
Afro-Cuban percussion with Roberto Vizcaino, Fermin Nani, and Santiago Nani at
the National School of the Arts in Havana, Cuba through an Ohio Arts Council
Grant, with Giovanni Hidalgo, Horacio Hernandez, Glen Velez, Jamie Haddad, and
Trichi Sankaran at the Berklee College of Music World Percussion Festival, drum
circle facilitation with Christine Stevens at the Remo Health Rhythms Workshop,
ethnomusicology with Bruno Nettl, Charles Capwell, Tom Torino, and jazz
composition with Alan Horney.
For further information please contact geschaft@ysu.edu or www.ysu.edu/percussion