Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 337 - Edward Choi

After Pete discusses a very busy month for the Athletics Bands at Mizzou, Principal Percussionist for the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and educator Edward Choi stops by to talk about his orchestral position, the ways he serves the greater Korean percussion community, and his college teaching schedule (04:10), his work with the Percussion Conservatory (27:25), growing up mostly in Toronto, his Drum Corps years, getting an English degree and studying Asian languages, and coming to percussion later in life (33:50), living and learning in Korea, and teaching Drum Corps in Asia (49:00), studying with Michael Burritt at Northwestern and She-e Wu at Rutgers (01:04:50), his time learning from Alan Abel (01:11:45), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions, with discussions of the value of both Drum Corps and Orchestral Music study, issues of IDE, watching U.S. sports in Korea, and great books (01:23:50).

Finishing with a Rave regarding more of Pete’s recent travels (01:59:10).

Links:

Edward Choi’s Percussion Conservatory page

Edward Choi’s Seoul Philharmonic page

Christopher Deviney

Musical Chairs

Myung-Whun Chung

Alan Abel

Riccardo Muti

Eric Sammut

Joshua Vonderheide

Will James on the podcast in 2017

Norm Weinberg on the podcast in 2017

Joseph Pereira

Boston Crusaders DCI

Star of Indiana DCI

NEXUS Percussion

Russell Hartenberger

Robin Engelman

Fred Hinger

“The Birds” - NEXUS Percussion, 1984

Thom Hannum

Colin McNutt

Keiko Abe

Method of Movement for Marimba - L.H. Stevens

Beverley Johnston

“Dynamite” - BTS

Squid Game trailer

The Three Japanese Alphabets

Jeff Lee

Steven Schick

Adrian Stefanescu

Jeremy Branson

She-e Wu

“Mirage pour Marimba” - Yasuo Sueyoshi

“Variations on Lost Love” - David Maslanka

“Caprice No. 24” - Nicolo Paganini/Johan Bridger

“Velocities” - Joseph Schwantner

“Rhythmic Caprice” - L.H. Stevens

“Rhythm Song” - Paul Smadbeck

I-Jen Fang

Scheherazade, Mvt. III - N. Rimsky-Korsakov

Bolero - Maurice Ravel

Thomas Sherwood

Christopher Lamb

Cloyd Duff

Unsuk Chin

Rebecca Lloyd-Jones on the podcast in 2022

Dune (2021) trailer

Eternals trailer

Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger

IQ84 - Haruki Murakami

Doug Flutie NFL Highlights

Old Dutch Ketchup Potato Chips

Canadian Butter Tarts

Coffee Crisp Chocolate Bar

Dark Chocolate Hobnobs

Jaap van Zweden

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Symphony No. 1 - Jean Sibelius

Becca Laurito on the podcast in 2023

Raves:

Old Sacramento

DOCO

Fisherman’s Wharf (SF)