Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 249 - Matthew Coley (Part 1)

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 Website

Matthew Coley’s Marimba One page

Heartland Marimba

Heartland Marimba Quartet

Ujjal Bhattacharyya

Joe Millea

Hannah Weaver

Clocks in Motion

“Root Beer Rag” - Billy Joel (percussion version)

Mark Ford

Christopher Deane

Harold Jones

John Floyd

Annie Stevens

Erik Johnson

Cort McClaren

Martinsville Speedway

Rob Falvo

“Two Mexican dances” - Gordon Stout

Ed Smith

Poovalur Sriji

Sandi Rennick

Patricia Islas

Girls March

Nick Werth

Dave Hall’s appearance on the podcast

“Merlin” - Andrew Thomas

“Concealed Chambers” - Matthew Coley

“Drums” - Sven-David Sandstrom

Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion - Bela Bartok

“Ambient Resonances” - Peter Klatzow

Concierto Madrigal - J. Rodrigo

“Cryin’ Time” - Bob Becker

“Three Transformations” - Andrew Thomas

“And Legions Will Rise” - Kevin Puts

Michael Burritt

She-e Wu

Anthony Calabrese

Owen Clayton Condon

James Ross

Velocities - Joseph Schwantner

“Mirage” - Yasuo Sueyoshi

Raves:

Daring Greatly - Brené Brown