Music Department Faculty
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Associate Professor
mkingan@iup.edu
724-357-2897
By Appointment
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Director of Percussion Studies
Applied Percussion
Percussion Ensemble
Michael Kingan
assumed the role as Director of
Percussion Studies at IUP in the Fall of 2003. He holds the degrees
Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of North Texas, Master of
Music from the University of Cincinnati, and Bachelor of Music
Education from the Ohio State University. Prior to his appointment at
IUP he held a similar position at Louisiana State University for seven
years and at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth for three years,
where, in addition to his percussion duties, he taught courses in Music
Theory and Musicology. He was also the Percussion and Drumline
Instructor at J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas for six
years and high school band director in Harlingen, Texas for two years.
Dr. Kingan's performance experience includes the East Texas Symphony
Orchestra
and the Fort Worth Symphony. He has freelanced as a drummer and
percussionist
in the Columbus, Cincinnati, Dallas/Ft. Worth and Baton Rouge/New
Orleans area
performing, on occasion, with symphonies in all the cities mentioned.
In May
2000, he began performing and touring as percussionist/drummer with the
Atlantic
Brass Quintet. He can be heard on the ensemble’s CD
“Passages,” released
summer of 2002. During the year 2002-03, he performed with the chamber
group
Pastiche presenting concerts and outreach performances around
Louisiana. As a
soloist or chamber musician, he has performed at MENC, NACWPI, and ITG
National
Symposiums. As a conductor, the LSU Percussion Ensemble has performed
throughout
Louisiana and Texas, at several Louisiana “Days of
Percussion,” and
the Louisiana Music Educators Association Convention. The group was
also privileged
to perform at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention 2002
in Columbus,
Ohio on the New Music/Research Day, “Percussion Ensemble
Literature of the
Twentieth Century,” as part of the Historical Retrospective
Celebration
Concerts. He also co-founded and conducted the Louisiana Youth
Orchestra Percussion
Ensemble since its inception in August 2000 until coming to IUP.
Kingan’s other activities include being a faculty member of
the Blue Lake
Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan and the Yamaha/Stephen F. Austin
Percussion
Symposium in Texas. He has judged percussion events, both marching and
Solo & Ensemble,
in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee, and Louisiana. He has hosted two
statewide “Days
of Percussion,” eleven Yamaha “Sounds of
Summer” Marching Percussion
Camps, and numerous clinicians to each of his teaching situations. His
articles
have been published in Percussive Notes (PAS), Teaching Music (MENC),
the NACWPI
Journal, and the Yamaha Education Packets. While at LSU, he was awarded
several
grants: one was technology based to create the LSU Electronic
Percussion Studio.
The other was a Teaching Incentive Grant which provided equipment for a
newly
structured Percussion Methods Class. Kingan is a former Chapter
President of
the Percussive Arts Society/Louisiana and has also served as the
Secretary/Treasurer.
He is endorsed as an artist/clinician by the Yamaha Corporation and
Innovative
Percussion.
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