Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 390 - Eri Isomura (Part 1)

Minneapolis (MN)-based freelance percussionist and educator Eri Isomura stops by to discuss her freelancing work, 10th Wave Music, networking, and the amount of planning needed to put it all together (03:40), her responsibilities when she taught at St. Olaf (MN), changes in her life once she became a mom, and the “Three M’s of Freelancing” (22:30), more about 10th Wave Collective and her entrepreneurship training in Boston (33:25), growing up in Minneapolis, her father the cellist, and her extensive piano background (42:20), and discusses her time as an undergrad at St. Olaf, the development of one’s musical taste, and how to create great sound from percussion instruments (56:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2022 book Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library (01:15:00).

Eri Isomura Links:

Eri Isomura’s website

10th Wave Collective

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Matt McClung in 2022

Matthew Coley in 2021

Other Links:

Heartland Marimba

Peter Klatzow

Doodle

LettuceMeet

Dave Hagedorn

Nancy Zeltsman

Black Lives Matter

American Composers Forum

New Music U.S.A.

Piano Concerto No. 3 - Sergei Prokofiev

Piano Concerto No. 23 - W.A. Mozart

Ballade No. 1 - Frederic Chopin

Piano Concerto No. 3 - Sergei Rachmaninov

“Merlin” - Andrew Thomas

The Golden Girls TV theme song

Sonatas and Interludes - John Cage

American Songbook No. 1 - George Crumb

Raves:

Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library - Amanda Oliver