DIRECTOR OF PERCUSSION STUDIES

Dr. Michael Kingan (Associate Professor of Music) 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.

ADDITIONAL PERCUSSION FACULTY

Additional percussion faculty include Dr. Jack Stamp, Director of Band Studies; and Dr. Ron Horner, Adjunct Percussion Instructor.