Percussion Educator, Performer and Composer Angela Kepley stops by to chat about running her own private studio in the Chicago area, how she’s incorporated percussion ensemble into the private studio experience, and making it all work with billing and equipment (04:05), fitting composing in to her activities (24:00), taking and teaching fitness classes (27:30), growing up in southern Illinois, her piano background, and her marching band career under legendary band director Carolyn Dominick (34:40), attending Millikin University (IL) for undergrad (44:25), teaching percussion post undergrad, going to Northern Illinois University for her master’s, and working through the pandemic as a private studio teacher (54:00), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including her studies of gender in the percussion world, cooking tofu, and recovering from an elbow injury (01:16:30).
Finishing with a Rave on books by Rich Holly, Lemuel Watson, Diane Petrella, and Nick Petrella (01:41:30).
Links:
Nathan Daughtrey on the podcast in 2021
Dynamic Duos for Mallets - Angela Kepley
“County Clare” - arr. David Steinquest
“Monograph IV” - Richard Gipson
Rich Holly on the podcast in 2020
“The Odyssey, According to Penelope” - Kevin Bobo
“Rebonds B A” - Iannis Xenakis
Watership Down - Richard Adams
“Variations on Japanese Children’s Songs” - Keiko Abe
“To The Earth” - Frederic Rzewski
The Percussionists’ Guide to Injury Treatment and Prevention - Darin Workman
Raves:
The Musician’s Toolbox - Diane Petrella and Nick Petrella