Brian Calhoon, percussion | marimba | voice

Official Website

Contact

briancalhoon@gmail.com

Currently Based

Boston, Massachusetts

Hometown

Los Altos, California

Member

Boston Percussion Group (BPeG)

Juventas New Music Ensemble

Boston Musicians’ Association

Education

MM: Boston Conservatory

BM: San Francisco Conservatory

California State University, Hayward

Brian Calhoon is a San Francisco bay area native who enjoys combining percussion, marimba, and voice in creative ways. He is equally comfortable in a symphony hall, a theater pit, recording new works—even playing the marimba and singing simultaneously.

Brian has performed throughout the United States and Europe, including at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall and Boston’s Jordan Hall, having worked with famed conductors Michael Tilson Thomas and Edwin Outwater. Currently residing in Boston, Brian is in demand as a freelance percussionist and marimbist, and frequently premieres new works as the core percussionist with the Juventas New Music Ensemble. He is also a core member of the Boston Percussion Group (BPeG).

Brian continues to adapt and commission new works for marimba/vibraphone/voice (for one player) and has plans soon to record an album of his unique repertoire. He can be heard on GM Recordings, Innova, Dan Levitan Music, and Parma record labels.

A Bang On A Can Summer Festival fellow, Brian received praise from composer Steve Reich for his performance in "Music for 18 Musicians" in the 2009 concert of Reich's music. In the summers of 2003 to 2005, Brian toured the United States and Europe in the front ensemble of the Concord Blue Devils Drum & Bugle A-Corps. Brian has shared the concert stage with Lyle Mays, Jack Van Geem, and Nancy Zeltsman, as a percussionist, marimbist, and a vocalist.

Also an Admissions Counselor at The Boston Conservatory, Brian remains involved in arts administration with Zeltsman Marimba Festival. He holds degrees from Boston Conservatory and San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and is a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda music honor society. Brian lives, works, and plays in Boston, Massachusetts.

All Is Quiet for voice/vibraphone/marimba

(Mintzer/Hobgood/Elling, arr. Calhoon)

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latest updates ~ November 2011

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