UAFS Percussion Studio

UAFS Percussion Studio Welcome to the UAFS Percussion Studio Page! These events are free and open to the public.

Percussionists within the university have the opportunity to experience a wide variety of performance mediums, including the UAFS Percussion Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, Athletic Band, Jazz Lab Ensemble, and auxiliary percussion with the UAFS Choirs and Jazz Cats (a vocal jazz ensemble). This page is dedicated to providing information for all UAFS Percussion Studio recitals, concerts, maste

rclasses/clinics and other related events. For more information regarding the UAFS Percussion Studio, feel free to contact our director, Dr. Connor Stevens, at [email protected]

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Congrats to first year students Tekhi Hodge and Michael Berton for their performances of solos by Jessica Flannigan and ...
05/01/2026

Congrats to first year students Tekhi Hodge and Michael Berton for their performances of solos by Jessica Flannigan and Mark Ford in recital class today!

Concert this Thursday at 7:00pm! We’ll be performing works by David Skidmore, Jessica Flannigan, Brant Blackard, Ivan Tr...
04/28/2026

Concert this Thursday at 7:00pm! We’ll be performing works by David Skidmore, Jessica Flannigan, Brant Blackard, Ivan Trevino, and Terry Riley.

Congrats to first year students Ashtin Hobbs and Britley Sirratt for performing solos by Jessica Flannigan and !
04/24/2026

Congrats to first year students Ashtin Hobbs and Britley Sirratt for performing solos by Jessica Flannigan and !

Percussion section pic from our recent Wind Ensemble concert!
04/09/2026

Percussion section pic from our recent Wind Ensemble concert!

Congrats on another recital class performance for the UAFS Music Department!
04/03/2026

Congrats on another recital class performance for the UAFS Music Department!

A huge thank you to the incredible Darci Wright for coming back to UAFS to give an inspiring recital, lessons, and Q&A f...
03/13/2026

A huge thank you to the incredible Darci Wright for coming back to UAFS to give an inspiring recital, lessons, and Q&A for our music department!

Two beautiful new snare drums have arrived! Thanks !
03/11/2026

Two beautiful new snare drums have arrived! Thanks !

We are so excited to welcome UAFS alum .percussion back on campus as a guest artist this week! She’ll be giving a recita...
03/11/2026

We are so excited to welcome UAFS alum .percussion back on campus as a guest artist this week! She’ll be giving a recital and Q&A for the music department this Friday at 1:00pm so make sure to come check it out!

Darci Wright currently serves as a Doctoral Teaching Assistant at the Florida State University. She earned the Master of Music degree in Percussion Performance from FSU and her Bachelor of Music Degree in Music Education at the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith, where she graduated with Honors Magna Cum Laude. Her primary teachers include Dr. John W. Parks IV and Dr. Tommy Dobbs.

Still inspired from last week’s amazing guest artist Dr. Hannah Weaver!
03/07/2026

Still inspired from last week’s amazing guest artist Dr. Hannah Weaver!

is here on campus! She spent the day teaching and rehearsing with our students; recital is tomorrow at 7:00pm!
02/26/2026

is here on campus! She spent the day teaching and rehearsing with our students; recital is tomorrow at 7:00pm!

We are so excited to have the incredible Dr. Hannah Weaver visit as a guest artist this week! She will be giving a recit...
02/24/2026

We are so excited to have the incredible Dr. Hannah Weaver visit as a guest artist this week! She will be giving a recital THIS FRIDAY at 7:00pm in Breedlove Rm 105, joined by and It is free and open to the public. She’ll also be teaching and coaching some of our percussion students; We can’t wait to have her on campus!

From her bio: An avid solo and chamber performer, Hannah Weaver has special interests in contemporary literature and the solo literature of J. S. Bach. Recent performances include a world premiere of Jennifer Bellor’s “Amethyst Sky” (considered for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Grammy 2020) and a solo recital of transcriptions of Bach solo works for collaborations of marimba, vibes, and dancers. A member of the Heartland Marimba Quartet since 2021, she will be performing with the quartet on their spring 2021 tour (concerti performances with Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, concerts in Mason City, IA and Oak Park, IL). Her mixed chamber trio “Odds and Ends” (saxophone, clarinet and percussion) will release an electronic album summer ‘21 with new commissions by Kitty Xiao, Erich Barganier, Jeremy Bearsden and Sean William Calhoun. With the Eastman Percussion Ensemble in their showcase performance at PASIC Nov. 2017, she performed in the world premieres of the John Psathas octet and Michael Burritt septet. Summers of 2016-2018, Weaver was percussion fellow with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, and summer 2019 she attended the Lake George Music Festival as one of two percussion fellows. She has also held fellowships with the Texas Music Festival and the National Repertory Orchestra. A passionate teacher committed to cultivating her students’ individual musicianship, Weaver holds the position of Assistant Professor of Percussion at University of Nebraska-Omaha. Previously she taught at Virginia Tech during the 2018 spring semester.

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