UWM Percussion

Congratulations to Emilio De La Rosa and Ciprian Fountain on their shared junior recital this weekend! It was a fun program, and it was enjoyable to watch them present their first recital!

Our final percussion ensemble concert of the school year is complete! Thanks to all those who came in person and watched the livestream! Some “fun” power grid failures around the block made for an interesting final piece of this one… 🔋🪫

We had a great final concert of the year for the UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band and Community World Music Ensemble last night! Thanks to everyone who came out and tuned in online!

We have 2 concerts this week! Both are in the Zelazo Center but also live streamed. We hope to see you at one, or both!

UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band & Community World Music Ensemble: https://uwm.edu/arts/event/uwm-steel-panthers-steel-band-university-community-world-music-ensemble-2/

UWM Percussion Ensemble: https://uwm.edu/arts/event/uwm-percussion-ensemble-2/

UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band & Community World Music Ensemble This exciting night of music will feature music from Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago performed by UWM students and Milwaukee community members. The UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band and the Community World Music Ensemble will join forces on a program highlighting traditional and arranged musi...

We had a great weekend with the 2026 MKE Percussion Festival! It started with a bang with the MKE Mass Steel Band with the amazing (with a lovely extended intermission courtesy of a tornado warning), and continued with awesome sessions with , Chris Riggs, and Julio Pabon on Saturday! Thanks to all of our guests for presenting, and to everyone who attended parts of the events!

The 2026 MKE Percussion Festival, including the MKE Mass Steel Band, is coming up next week! The mass band is on Friday 4/17 with guest artist Victor Provost, and the rest of the activities (clinics and solo and ensemble festival) are on Saturday 4/18! We hope you can join us! Full event information: https://uwm.edu/arts/event/mke-percussion-festival/

Our wonderful TA, Abraham, gave us a great clinic presentation on Venezuelan maracas in studio class today!

We had the pleasure of having Dr. Anthony Di Sanza on campus yesterday! We really enjoyed his class on the Darbuka and then later in the evening his wonderful recital program. Thanks for visiting!

We had a blast this weekend presenting our 5th annual World Percussion Night! Thank you to and UWM Dance for joining us, and to everyone who came out for the performances! We will also have more photos to share soon from the photographer.

The 2025-2026 Percussion program in the Music Department Convocation was yesterday and we had a blast! Thanks to all you students who were required to attend and actually did. 🙃

We loved having .percussion back on campus yesterday to do a samba class! So many great insights on approaching the instruments, the feel of the music, and new patterns to work on for our World Percussion Night concerts at the end of the month! (Link in bio)