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Interviews with some of the leading marimba artist-teachers from the 20th century. Topics include opinions on teaching, performing, how and what to practice, taking competitive auditions, repertoire selection, health and more. This book includes what students learned from early teachers including Musser, Bethancourt and Hiroaka. A follow up book, with more artists, is in progress. Interviews were conducted by Greg Giannascoli with a foreword written by William Moersch.
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Eri Isomura is a freelance performer and instructor of piano, percussion, and marimba, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2021 she released the album "Musical Moments for Cello and Marimba" with her father Sachiya Isomura, a former cellist in the Minnesota Orchestra. Eri is a founding member of 10th Wave Chamber Collective, a Twin Cities-based chamber ensemble featuring new(er) music.
She has been recorded for pop/contemporary albums by Jeremy Messersmith, Charlie McCarron and Champagne Confetti. She has recently performed in a variety of musical styles with the Minnesota Operai, Zeitgeist, Border CrosSing, Dubuque Symphony, Lakes Area Music Festival, and others. She has commissioned and/or premiered works for marimba by composers such as Asako Hirabayashi, Asuka Kakitani, Michael Maiorana, AJ Isaacson-Zwidwa, Ian A Cook, Elwyn A Fraser Jr., Jonathan Posthuma, and others.
As an educator, Eri is on the percussion faculty at St. Olaf College and the director of the Improvisation Ensemble, is a percussion class teacher at Yinghua Academy and serves as the president of the Percussive Arts Society Minnesota Chapter. Eri studied at St. Olaf College and received her Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance with Distinction. She completed her Masters in Percussion Performance at The Boston Conservatory.
Please see more at eriisomura.com or 10thwave.org.
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