Director: Dr. Ksenija Komljenović
Percussion at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) focuses on discovering your unique voice as an artist. 🥁 Join us for your graduate, undergraduate, and high school degrees! 🎓 We offer undergraduate, graduate, and high school degrees.
🏫 As a student in this program, you'll benefit from one-on-one private lessons, studio classes, chamber music coachings, guest artist master classes, and numerous opportunities to showcase your skills.
👩🏫 Director: Dr. Ksenija Komljenović
05/06/2026
Sunbathing with our bellies full for our end of year studio party! 🌞
We’ve got expert grill masters, bakers, and cooks among us 🧑🍳 We enjoyed many delightful foods, including a Balkan-themed collection of meals (ćevapi, lepinje, roasted peppers, kiflice - special shoutout to Garrett for cooking on the spot)!
An amazing end to an awesome year! 🎉
Wait until we pick our jaws up off the floor 🔥
At UNCSA, students can choose to participate in the Improvised Music & Jazz program - and play weekly sessions in downtown Winston-Salem! Willow and Luke took full advantage of it this semester 🙌
Willow on vibes
Luke on drums
Carter on bass
Yusuf on piano
Shhh, the recording lights are on and the xylo solo is 🔥 🎙️
This is what happens when arranges music and shreds!
04/29/2026
Did you see the UNCSA Percussion Studio & Friends rock this weekend? 👀👩🎤🌟
The students presented their awesome arrangements of Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Strokes, Kansas, Alice In Chains, Tool, Rush, Dżem, Arch Echo, AC/DC, The Surfaris, and Prince!
🤘🥁 🎸
All photos by the super-talented !
04/26/2026
Still buzzing from the Percussion Ensemble concert, why not keep it going today?🤩 Come support all of hard this evening, the last but very not least recital of the year!🔥
Who doesn’t love Queen?! arrangement of the iconic Bohemian Rhapsody🕺
We’ll rock on Saturday, and we’ll introduce you to some R’n’R from Poland, too! 🇵🇱 Come and learn about the moving story behind „Letter to M.”! ❤️🩹
Arrangement by - our Polish Ambassador
Vibes - Griffin & Paulina
Marimba - Soph
Percussion - Monte
04/21/2026
Saturday, April 25 at 4:30 PM in Watson Hall! 🤘👩🎤🎸
The students have arranged their favorite rock tunes into percussion chamber music ✨
The concert is free!
Some chill Led Zeppelin vibes cooking for ya - join us this Saturday at 4:30 PM in Watson Hall! 🏝️ 🚘 🤘
Arrangement by
Alex - trumpet
Willow - vibes
Yusuf - piano
Carter - bass
Luke - drums
Prep for next Saturday (April 25 at 4:30 PM!) and our Spring concert: Percussion Rocks! 🤘 🎸
This Alice In Chains arrangement is done all by and it features:
Kam on cajón
Caroline on marimba
Ethan on guitar