Percussion

The percussion students at the School of Music hail from all points within Australia as well as Asia and New Zealand. Studying percussion at the School of Music involves a total immersion into the full spectrum of percussion though an emphasis on developing the individual percussionist as a chamber and solo musician. Students study the full range of orchestral repertoire as well as contemporary percussion ensemble, world music and current trends.

The percussion program resides within the School of Music with purpose built facilities for practice and performance. In addition to a complete range of traditional western percussion instruments, the percussion area is the custodian of a set of West African Ewe and Ashanti drums, a complete Javanese Gamelan and a collection of South Indian and Asian percussion instruments. The School of Music Library archives an extensive collection of solo and ensemble repertoire written exclusively for percussion. Students have full access to the latest technology in the research of percussion performance practice.

The School of Music percussion ensemble “DRUMatiX” presents the rich and divers repertoire written exclusively for percussion. Numerous School of Music percussion students and ensembles regularly perform national broadcast for ABC Classic FM as well as many public performances in Australia and overseas. You will find ANU percussion graduates leading the way as members in both ABC and overseas orchestras performing in the worlds leading percussion ensembles, in the studio and in the pit.