Heartland Marimba Founder, Entrepreneur, and Arts Administrator Matthew Coley stops by to talk about the history of Heartland Marima, freelancing, and his background in arts administration (02:25), the many ways the Covid pandemic has affected his life (28:15), growing up in southwest Virginia and the beginnings of his percussion career (37:30), studying with Mark Ford at East Carolina University and North Texas, along with discussion of North Carolina percussion back in the day (48:15), and his Northwestern grad school years under Michael Burritt and She-e Wu (01:17:10).
Finishing with a Rave on Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly (01:32:25).
Links:
Matthew Coley’s Marimba One page
“Root Beer Rag” - Billy Joel (percussion version)
“Two Mexican dances” - Gordon Stout
Dave Hall’s appearance on the podcast
“Concealed Chambers” - Matthew Coley
“Drums” - Sven-David Sandstrom
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion - Bela Bartok
“Ambient Resonances” - Peter Klatzow
Concierto Madrigal - J. Rodrigo
“Three Transformations” - Andrew Thomas
“And Legions Will Rise” - Kevin Puts
Velocities - Joseph Schwantner
Raves: