Percussion Alumni
Dear DePauw Percussion graduates, We’d love to hear from you! Please contact me at: albarber@depauw.edu with news of your current activities
Peter Meyer
- Class of 2012
- BM - percussion performance
- Currently: graduate teaching assistant in the MM program at University of Wisconsin
Bridget Parker
- Class of 2011
- BME
- Currently: Director of Bands for Triton Central Schools in Shelby County, Indiana
Rebekah Woolverton
- Class of 2011
- BM - percussion performance
Michael Lindsey
- Class of 2008
- BM - percussion performance, classics
- 2008-2011– KM Music Conservatory in Chennai, India – taught western percussion and music theory/appreciation
- Currently: MM program in musicology/ethnomusicology at University of California Santa Cruz
Matthew Rosensteele
- Class of 2007
- BM-percussion performance, Spanish
- Served in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica
- Currently: Executive Director of Restoring Our Watershed, a US non-profit in Costa Rica
Alex Helm
- Class of 2007
- BM – percussion performance
- MM in percussion performance - Belmont University
Aleksas Gylys
- Class of 2006
- BMA – music/business
- MM in Music Technology - Steinhardt School, New York University
- Co-founder, Audio/Video Engineer – The Pancake Factory, Brooklyn, NY
- Free-lance drummer and percussionist in New York
- Currently: Residential Computing Coordinator, New York University
Jason Sloan
- Class of 2004
- BME
Alissa Handy Van Deman
- Class of 2001
- BMA
Laurie Ono
- Class of 1999
- BA – music/business
- 1999-2022 – Makuhari Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan
- 2005-2009 – Clark College/Community Orchestra, Vancouver, WA; Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Lake Oswego, OR
- Currently: RN at St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, WA
Brian Hersh
- Class of 1999
- BA – music
- Arts Administration work with the American Music Center, New York, Lincoln Center, and Sarasota, FL Arts Council
- Currently: Education and Outreach Director, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Sarasota, FL
Dan Fitzgerald
- Class of 1996
- music/economics
- Currently: Attorney, Naperville, IL
Neal McCutcheon
- Class of 1995
- BME
- Currently: Principal, Wainwright High School, Lafayette, IN
Andrew Kay
- Class of 1994
- BA – music/business
Heather Hitchens
- Class of 1991
- BA – music/business
- MS – Arts Administration, Drexel Univesity
- Past position – Executive Director, New York State Council on the Arts; CEO, Delaware Symphony; CEO, Meet the Composer
- Currently: Executive Director, American Theatre Wing, New York
Don Parker
- Class of 1985
- BM – performance/music business
- MM, DMA – University of Texas, Austin
- Currently: Associate Professor of Music, Fayettesville State University, North Carolina
- Member of trumpet/percussion due Double Take
- Active percussion and jazz performer and clinician