Percussion Room

Built upon over half a century of excellence, the NIU Percussion Studio offers students a rich collection of opportunities in music performance, composition, pedagogy, scholarship, travel, arts advocacy and entrepreneurship. Percussion studies at NIU celebrates percussion as a passport to the world, its cultures and to the inner self. Our students work in equal measure on becoming both responsible, courageous citizens and finely attuned and sensitive musicians. We are a close-knit community and we look forward to welcoming you to our family.

Percussion Room

The NIU School of Music proudly offers one of the most generous percussion-dedicated facilities in the country. The NIU Percussion Studio has its own ensemble rehearsal and classroom space and twenty rooms assigned to percussion students and faculty.

Percussion

A dedicated large percussion ensemble rehearsal space and classroom
A dedicated steelpan ensemble rehearsal space and classroom

Percussion

A dedicated world music ensemble rehearsal space and classroom
A suite of three percussion practice rooms

Percussion

Five student-shared percussion practice rooms
An electronic percussion practice room

Percussion

A graduate student suite of three shared offices and two percussion practice rooms
Four faculty office/teaching studios

Percussion Performance

September 1, 2020, the NIU Percussion and Steel Pan Studio Faculty hosted a “Welcome Back” performance in NIU’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. This performance was the premiere of “fios e linhas” (wires and lines), a new quintet for berimbau and mallet quartet by Gregory Beyer, Director of Percussion Studies at NIU. The piece was composed for and dedicated to I-Jen Fang and the University of Virginia Percussion Ensemble.

The performers included:
Imanol Ruiz – glockenspiel
Christian Melhado – vibraphone
Gregory Beyer – berimbau and caxixi
James Gibson and Tony Cable – marimbas

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