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
Dr. Michael Kingan
(Associate Professor of Music) assumed the role as Director of Percussion Studies at IUP in Fall 2003. He teaches applied percussion and directs the IUP Percussion Ensemble and Steel Band. He holds the degrees DMA from the University of North Texas, MM from the University of Cincinnati, and BME 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. 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 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 areas performing on occasion with symphonies in all the cities mentioned. He has performed, toured, and recorded with the Atlantic Brass Quintet, the chamber group Pastiche, and the Keystone Winds. As a soloist or chamber musician, he has performed at PASIC, MENC, NACWPI, and ITG National Symposiums. As a conductor, he led both the IUP and LSU Percussion Ensembles to PASIC performances, including the important "New Literature of Percussion Ensemble" session at PASIC 2007. His groups have presented several state tours, performances at PMEA, LMEA, and for several "Days of Percussion." He co-founded and conducted the Louisiana Youth Orchestra Percussion Ensemble from its inception in August 2000 until coming to IUP. The IUP PE will release a CD in 2011.
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 in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee, and Louisiana. He has hosted three statewide "Days of Percussion," sixteen Yamaha "Sounds of Summer" Drumline Camps, and numerous clinicians to each of his teaching situations. His articles have been published in Percussive Notes, Teaching Music, the NACWPI Journal, and the Yamaha Education Packets. Kingan is a former Chapter President of the PAS/Louisiana and is endorsed as an artist/clinician by the Yamaha Corporation and Innovative Percussion.
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