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Daniel Tones is an award-winning percussionist equally committed to fostering creative development in aspiring musicians. He has studied with some of Canada’s most well respected percussionists, including Salvador Ferreras, Russell Hartenberger, and John Rudolph, and has worked with internationally recognized artists such as Bob Becker, Aiyun Huang, and Steve Schick. He has appeared at music festivals on three continents and has been broadcast nationally on radio and television.
A love of global percussion led him to study frame drumming, West African drumming and dance, Balinese gamelan, and Cuban percussion with master musicians. Equally at home with Western art music, he is the Principal Percussionist of the Kamloops Symphony and has performed with the Toronto, Vancouver, and Victoria symphonies, the CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra, and the Vancouver Opera. He also appears regularly as a chamber musician with Vancouver New Music and Fringe Percussion.
Brian Nesselroad is an active contributor to Vancouver’s musical and cultural scene. With areas of expertise ranging from marimba and contemporary chamber music to jazz drumset and orchestral percussion, he has performed with many of the city’s premiere ensembles and artists.
Brian is currently a candidate for a doctoral degree in performance at the University of British Columbia, and has studied with leading percussionists in North America, including William Moersch and Andrew Spencer. He is currently Principal Timpanist with the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly with the Vancouver Island Symphony and the Vancouver Symphony. Duo Schfifty-Five, his collaboration with pianist Andrea Lodge specializing in works for percussion and amplified piano, was featured at the 2008 Sound Symposium in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Martin Fisk is an accomplished percussionist and dedicated teacher. He holds a music degree from the University of British Columbia where his studied with percussionists John Rudolph and Salvador Ferreras, and refined his skills playing classical, contemporary, and world music.
Over the past 10 years Martin has performed a wide variety of musical genres across Canada and the United States including orchestral, jazz, rock, klezmer, and musical theatre. He has performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Island Symphony, Vancouver New Music, the RedShift Music Society, and Fringe Percussion. He also studied gamelan in Bali with the well-known orchestra Cudamani.
Martin is the Assistant Director and Percussion Instructor for the West Vancouver Youth Band. He maintains a private teaching studio and leads student percussion ensembles at the Vancouver Academy of Music.
Jonathan Bernard
Martin Fisk
Brian Nesselroad
Daniel Tones
Jonathan combines his background in Western percussion with a fascination for Asian traditions to create a unique sound palette that incorporates a myriad of instruments, techniques, and styles. His interests span genres from orchestral music to new music and world music. Jonathan has premiered over seventy chamber works, and performs with the Orchid Ensemble, Tandava, Vancouver New Music, and Fringe Percussion. He is the Principal Percussionist with the Vancouver Island Symphony and has performed with the Vancouver and Victoria symphonies and the CBC Radio Orchestra.
Jonathan’s interest in world music led him to perform Chinese, Javanese, Balinese, and Korean music and to study traditional and contemporary Chinese percussion in Beijing, Arabic percussion in Cairo, and Carnatic rhythm in South India. In addition, Jonathan has toured throughout North America, Europe, and Japan.
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