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Drumm, Melissa; Instructor |
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Office: 15-106
Phone: (509) 533-3195
Email: Melissa.Drumm@spokanefalls.edu
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Ms. Drumm joined the SFCC Music Department faculty in 1992, teaching Private Voice, Singing I and II, and Music Appreciation courses.
The professional career for soprano Melissa Percy Drumm includes both concert and opera performances. She has been guest artist at the International Institute at Round Top, Texas, the International Institute for Vocal Arts in North Carolina and Florida, and the Bach Festival in Central Florida. She has been a guest recitalist at Washburn University, Lees-McRae College, Westchester Conservatory of Music and as a member of the Kansas Arts Commission Touring Program. Her European engagements include performances in Graz, Vienna, and at "Studio VOICES" in Paris. Ms. Drumm's operatic performances began in New York at the Amato Opera and Verdi Square Opera. She made her debut as Micaela in "Carmen", followed by Susanna in "The Marriage of Figaro". She has also sung roles in "La Boheme", "Suor Angelica", "La Traviata" and "Cosi Fan Tutte" and in "L'Elisir D'Amore" with the Ft. Worth Opera.
A native of Kansas, Ms. Drumm holds a Master of Music from Texas Christian University. She studied with William Woodruff and Margaret Kalil in New York and has worked under the direction of Leonard Bernstein, Paul Nadler and Joel Ethan Fried. She also received training from Eleanor Steber, Mignon Dunn and Licia Albanese. As a member of the faculty at Spokane Falls Community College, Ms. Drumm has performed with the SFCC Orchestra, SFCC Community Band, Jazz Ensemble, Choral ensembles and the Spartan Theatre in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and "Camelot". Ms. Drumm has been listed multiple times in the "Who's Who Among America's Teachers". Within the Spokane community, she has also performed for "Art on the Green", Opera Buffs, Holy Names Music Center. Ms. Drumm is the Director of Music Ministry at Hamblen Park Presbyterian Church.
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Edlin, Sara; Instructor |
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Office: 5-143E - 5-134
Phone: (509) 533-3222
Email: Sara.Edlin@spokanefalls.edu
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SARA EDLIN-Marlowe teaches theatre and speech at SFCC; she has also taught in the Applied Education Division at
Spokane Community College. Currently she is the faculty advisor for Whitworth.fm, a webcast station (formerly KWRS),
at Whitworth. For ten years, Sara worked for Spokane Public Radio where she was the "Morning Edition" host. Sara's
professional credits include: The Basket, Safe Passages, a water safety video made by the Army Corp of Engineers,
and a small part in Godfather I. She has numerous credits as a voice talent on the East and West coasts and appeared
on the Brian Keith Show filmed in Hawaii. Sara earned her Associate's degree at the University of Florida in
Gainesville; her Bachelor's is from the University of Miami where she double majored in Radio-TV-Film and Theatre;
She earned her Master's in Fine Arts with the emphasis on directing from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Edlin-Marlowe tours with her one woman shows: Sacagawea and her new adventure, the Canadian artist, Emily Carr.
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Gamberoni, Steve; Audio Engineering Instructor |
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Office: 15-222
Phone: (509) 533-3212
Email: Steve.Gamberoni@spokanefalls.edu
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Steve has been a faculty member in the Audio Technology program at Spokane Falls Community
College since 2006. Steve came to Spokane to head up the new, fast-growing audio program and
was instrumental in designing the curriculum and setting up the school's new state-of-the-art
Digital Audio Lab. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Steve still takes on freelance
recording and mixing projects.
Steve's background in the industry started
in 1994 when he graduated from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Music degree,
majoring in Recording Arts and Sciences. He then took his degree to Philadelphia where he first
broke into the recording industry working at Baker Sound, a post-production and voice-over facility.
He moved to Los Angeles where he worked as an engineer at several large commercial recording studios,
including Sunset Sound and Bay 7. By the time he left LA in 2003, Steve was an accomplished freelance
audio engineer with credits including major artists, record labels and entertainment companies such
as Usher, Ben Harper, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kid Rock, Ivan Neville, Shangri-La Entertainment, Geffen Records,
and Capital Records.
With his background established in the commercial recording
field, Steve turned his attention to teaching the recording arts. He was on the faculty at Full Sail,
a major media arts college in Orlando, Florida, before joining the faculty at Drexel University in
Philadelphia, where he designed and taught courses in their newly established Music Industry program.
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Guerrero, Rosi; Instructor |
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Office: 15-227
Phone: (509) 533-3719
Email: Rosi.Guerrero@spokanefalls.edu
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Dr. Rosi Guerrero has been a full-time tenured faculty member in the music department since 1998 and heads the
piano department at Spokane Falls Community School. Her expertises lie in class piano instruction from beginner
to advanced levels, private piano instruction, piano pedagogy involving children in a young preparatory program,
and music theory instruction. Recently, Dr. Guerrero piloted a funding proposal to upgrade the music building
at SFCC, and the music department was awarded $15 million dollars to renovate and add-on to it's building in
2009.
Dr. Guerrero is a member of the Washington State Music Teachers Association Spokane
Chapter and the Music Teachers National Association. She has an extensive educational background with a Doctoral
of Musical Arts Degree from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, a Master of Music Degree from the
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, and a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada. All three degrees emphasize a major in piano performance. Guerrero's piano studies also
include Gyorgy Sebok at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Alberta, Canada, Robin Wood, Nohema Fernandez and Ralph
Votapek.
Dr. Guerrero is a strong advocate of the philosophy that music education and
participation in music should be accessible to everyone. Music is expressive, inventive, meaningful, but most
importantly, humanistic. It is an artistic form of self-expression from within. Offering music instruction
within the community provides all students with diverse backgrounds, regardless of their age, level or ethnicity,
the opportunity to contribute to the cultural and social life of the communities in which they live.
Rosi has been an adjudicator for the Washington State Music Teachers Association State Honors
Piano Recital Competition, the Washington State Music Teachers Association Honors Recognition Piano Recital and
the Michigan Music Association Annual Piano Competition. She has toured Japan, Quebec and Vancouver for the
Worldwide and National Music Festival. As a performer, Rosi has had a wide variety of experiences in the solo,
chamber and accompanying repertoire. She has performed in numerous recitals throughout Western Canada,
Southwestern and Eastern United States, and presented a piano lecture recital on "The Evolution and Idiosyncrasy
of Stravinsky's Solo Piano Works" in Michigan.
Rosi Guerrero also actively participates in
seminars and workshop's across the Western region, including the Piano Pedagogy summer workshops in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada, the World Piano Pedagogy Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Pacific Northwest Teachers
Seminar in Portland, Oregon, and the Seminar in Community and Technical College Education in Seattle, Washington.
Dr. Guerrero served on the music faculty as an adjunct instructor in piano pedagogy at
Michigan State University (MSU) and has been a former faculty member of the Community Music School at MSU, the
Tucson Valley Suzuki Association, and the Southwest School of Music in Tucson. Functioning as supervisor and
coordinator of the Class Piano Program at MSU, she supervised and trained the class piano graduate teaching
assistants and dealt with approximately 125 music majors and non-music majors at the undergraduate level on a
daily basis. Through lecture-demonstrations of keyboard applications skills and music fundamentals, she assisted
students in acquiring skills to improvise, develop aural cognition, harmonize and apply theoretical concepts to
other subjects within their degree program.
Her extensive training also includes working with
beginning level pedagogy courses and the piano pedagogy Children's Preparatory Program at MSU, providing hands-on
demonstrations and acting as supervising teacher for undergraduate pedagogy and piano majors. This is an
innovative and valuable program to undergraduate degree students because it provides the opportunity for college
students to become directly involved within the community, and at the same time, equips students with the
necessary teaching tools in order to prepare them toward a successful teaching career in music.
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Halversen, Paul; Instructor |
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Office: 15-210
Phone: (509) 533-3723
Email: Paul.Halversen@spokanefalls.edu
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Paul Halversen is currently in his 34th year as a member of the college's music faculty. For over 20 of those
years, he directed the college's concert band. He received his B.S. and M.A. degrees in Music from Brigham Young
University, specializing in instrumental conducting, music theory and brass performance. He has continued his
studies at Washington State and Eastern Washington Universities. He has also served as an adjunct professor at
Gonzaga University and Whitworth College and as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the western and
northwestern United States and British Columbia. He has been chosen as guest conductor for numerous honors bands
and choirs, most recently the Idaho Regional Honors Band and the Southeast Alaska Honors Band.
Mr. Halversen is former director of the Spokane Jazz Society and has twice been guest
lecturer/performer in jazz studies at the Musikhochschule in Lubeck, Germany.
His current
teaching assignments include Music Theory and Introduction to Music.
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Krumbholz, Gerald; Instructor (Department Chair) |
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Office: 15-103
Phone: (509) 533-3991
Email: Gerald.Krumbholz@spokanefalls.edu
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Gerald A. Krumbholz received his B.A. in music education from the University of South Florida, his M.M. in music
theory from the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, and his Ph.D. in music theory from
the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. His doctoral dissertation, "Friedrich Wilhelm
Marpurg's Abhandlung von der Fuge (1753-4)", examined both Marpurg's theories on fugal procedure as well as the
musical and literary sources for those theories.
Prior to his arrival at SFCC Dr. Krumbholz
has taught music theory courses at the Eastman School of Music, Monroe Community College (Rochester, NY), Ithaca
College, the Oberlin Conservatory, DePauw University, and Knox College. His research interests include the history
of music theory, counterpoint, music theory pedagogy, American popular song from 1900-1950, and film music. He
has published articles in "Theory and Practice" and "The Harmonizer" and has presented a paper "Mozart's
Symphonic Triptych: Thematic Connections in the Symphonies K. 543, K. 550, and K. 551" at meeting of the Rocky
Mountain Society for Music Theory. He is an active barbershop harmony singer, arranger, judge, and currently
sings with Spokane's men's barbershop chorus, "The Pages of Harmony".
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Marlowe, Bill (William); Instructor |
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Office: 5-136/15-106
Phone: (509) 533-3592
Email: Bill.Marlowe@spokanefalls.edu
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William C. Marlowe is a wannabe Renaissance Man. He teaches, acts, directs,
stage manages and designs. Now in his 12th year as Director of Drama at Spokane
Falls Community College, he came to the college following 15 years as a free-lance
artist working across the country. Nationally, Bill has directed the nation's
premier outdoor drama TECUMSEH! as well as working for five years as Actor/Artistic
Director at the Birmingham Children's Theatre directing several National Tours. He
received the regional Obelisk Award for Best Actor for his role as the Kabuki Emperor
in The Nightingale.
Bill has worked as an Equity stage manager in New York for Mark Twain: The Musical for
two seasons and one season in Hartford, Connecticut. Some of his memorable local roles
include: Pseudolous in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Henry VIII in Royal
Gambit, Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar, Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Melvin P. Thorpe in
The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Lazar Wolf in Fiddler, Max Prince in Laughter on
the 23rd Floor, and numerous roles in his six seasons at Interplayers including the eleven
roles in A Tuna Christmas which won him the local Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in
Spokane for that season. He is also appearing in the recent film The Big Bang as a Russian
mobster with Antonio Banderas, LLCool J and Sam Elliot.
His local directing credits include: Titus Andronicus, The Importance of Being Earnest,
Curse of the Starving Class, The Tempest, Insect Comedy, Strange Bedfellows, Twelfth Night,
The Good Doctor, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Oedipus Rex, Buried Child, Macbeth, Working,
You Can't Take It with You, The Taming of the Shrew, Camelot, Run For Your Wife, How to
Eat Like a Child, The Crucible, Lysistrata, Oedipus, The Government Inspector, Comedy of
Errors, Othello, The Insanity of Mary Girard, and the critically acclaimed Civic production
of Wit in which he won the Critics Circle Award for Best Director. He was recently awarded
the Outstanding Faculty Award by the Community Colleges of Spokane and in 2006 received the
Arts in Education award from the city of Spokane. When scholarship funding dried up several
years ago for drama students, he started the fundraising for the first endowed scholarship
account through the CCS Foundation which now has over $25,000 and last year $2,000 in scholarships
were awarded to deserving students.
Bill most enjoys the opportunity that the Falls affords him as a creative artist and as a
mentor to students. In the summer he enjoys gardening, playing Dungeons and Dragons and camping
trips with Sara, his wife of 27 years, and his two dogs Bilbo and Baggins.
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McCollim, Danny; Audio Engineering Instructor |
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Office: 15-221
Phone: (509) 533-3238
Email: Danny.McCollim@spokanefalls.edu
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Danny is a member of the music faculty at SFCC and Whitworth College and has performed with jazz greats Michael
Brecker, Freddie Hubbard, Ernie Watts and Richie Cole, to name a few. He is very involved in the local music
scene as a member of All Fall Down, the leader of Jazz Conspiracy and a featured performer with the Spokane
Symphony and Spokane Jazz Orchestra. Danny received his B.A. in Music from Berklee College of Music in Boston.
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Meyer, Pamela; Audio Engineering Instructor |
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Office: 15-213
Phone: (509) 533-3741
Email: Pamela.Meyer@spokanefalls.edu
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Ms. Meyer has been a member of the SFCC Music Department faculty since 1993, currently teaching Live Sound Reinforcement I & II,
Coop Ed Seminar, supervises the Internship Program and provides PA sound and recordings for the SFCC Music Department and Student
Activities.
She has worked in concert production and studio recording as an independent sound technician since 1992, and is recognized as one
of the area's finest sound engineers. Her experience with many national and local productions as a front-of-house engineer, monitor
engineer, and systems engineer in different venues across the Pacific Northwest has provided her the skills and knowledge to
operate most any PA system available. Some of her clients include The Spokane Symphony Orchestra, Martin Woldson Theater at the
Fox, The Couer d'Alene Symphony, The Festival at Sandpoint, George Relles Sound Inc., Spokane Jazz Orchestra, Whitworth University,
Lewis & Clark H.S., St George's School, Mead H.S., Eastern Washington University, and Gonzaga University, to name a few.
Ms. Meyer has also engineered for numerous distinguished performers and touring acts such as Brandi Carlile, Keb'Mo', Glenn
Yarbrough, Natalie Cole, Natalie Macmaster, Clark Terry, David Sanchez, Mike Stern Band, Dennis Chambers, Dave Weckl (Conrad
Herwig's Latin Side of Miles, Trane and Wayne), Ernie Watts, Utah Phillips, Little Feat, Hal Ketchum, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band,
Mavis Staples, Suzy Bogguss, John Hiatt, John Mayall, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Asleep at the Wheel, John Prine, Johnny
Lang, Leroy Bell, Curtis Salgato, Madeleine Peyroux and more.
She was a member of the 560th Air Force Band (flute, piccolo, saxophone) at Fairchild AFB for 5 years and retired from the USAF
ANG after 26 years. She is a union member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 93 since 1995. She graduated from SFCC
with honors (Jazz studies/Audio engineer A.A.S. and General Studies A.A.).
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Wakeley, Dave; Instructor |
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Office: 15-208
Phone: (509) 533-3711
Email: Dave.Wakeley@spokanefalls.edu
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Dave Wakeley currently serves as the Director of the Spokane Falls Community College Community Band. He has
been a member of the faculty since 1990. He is the former director of the SFCC Jazz Ensemble and Co Director
of the SFCC Jazz Festival. He teaches courses in Jazz History, Intro to Music, The Business of Music and
Arranging as well as Jazz Combos and the newly formed Pep Band. He also teaches the Jazz in America class at
Whitworth College. Mr. Wakeley has also taught at Shadle Park High School, University High School and the
University of Connecticut.
He is a popular adjudicator and clinician. Recent experience
includes the Boise District Marching Band Championships, Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Jazz Unlimited Jazz
Festival, Eastern Washington Music Educators Jazz festival, guest conductor of the 2003 Yakima Valley Music
Educators Honor Band and 2003 and 2005 Bi County Music Educators Honor Band.
Mr. Wakeley's
freelance percussion performance experiences range from Jazz, Blues, Rock, Country, Bluegrass and Salsa bands
to Symphony Orchestras and Big Bands including recent performances with Tuxedo Junction Orchestra and the Men
of Rhythm Big Bands. He recently performed with rock legends, The Diamonds, Papa Glenn's Border Run Blues Band
and Fred's Kidz, a local resort rock band.
Under his direction, the SFCC Jazz Ensemble
performed with:
John and Jeff Clayton, Jeff Hamilton, Dave Weckl, Louis Bellson, Peter
Erskine, Pete Christlieb, Ernie Watts, Lew Tabakin, Bob Berg, David Sanchez, Stefon Harris, Dan Balmer, George
Mitchell, Carlton Jackson, Ellen Rowe, Frank Mantooth, Clark Terry, Jon Faddis, Clay Jenkins, Kim Richmond,
Ron Eschette, Todd Johnson, John Stowell, Eddie Palmieri, Jose Madera, Joe Santiago, Kristin Korb, Stan Kessler,
Todd Wilkinson, Keith Mallory, Dave Tippett, Jeff Taylor, Daniel Barry and Dave Glenn.
Awards
for Mr. Wakeley and his ensembles include a Drum Corps International World Championship (1975 Madison scouts),
4 American National Championship awards in Drum Corps, 2 Drum Corps United Kingdom National Championships,
2 National Marching Band Championships, 2 Bands of America Regional Championships, Gold and Silver Medals at
the Hawaiian International Music Festival with Spokane Falls Jazz groups. He was a 2 time Washington State
Percussive Arts Society Rudimental Snare Champion and the Northwest Drums Corps Association Snare Drum,
Rudimental Bass, Drum Quartet Champion and Outstanding Drum Major.
As a composer/arranger,
Mr. Wakeley has published more than 70 arrangements with William Allen Music and Arrangers Publishers Company
and written hundreds of commissioned works for school music programs throughout the United States and Canada.
He has collaborated with many of the top arrangers in the country including Jim Ott, Wayne Downey, Jay Chattaway,
Jeff Taylor, Jerry Nowak, and Ralph Gingery.
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Westrick, Rick; Percussion Instructor |
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Office: 15-207
Phone: (509) 533-3907
Email: Rick.Westrick@spokanefalls.edu
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Rick Westrick has been a member of the music faculty at Spokane Falls Community College since 1989, teaching
jazz drumset. He received a B.M. from Eastern Washington University in 1981 and is an active freelance performer
and teacher throughout the Spokane area.
Rick is a member of the Spokane Symphony's percussion
section and performs regularly with the orchestra. As one of Spokane's leading drumset players, Rick plays a
variety of jazz, rock and Latin styles with groups such as Moko Jumbie, Desafinado, Spokane Jazz Orchestra,
Danny McCollim Trio, Brent Edstrom Trio, Stagecoach West, and That Good Time Band. He is also a founding member
of the popular performance-educational percussion group, Happy Hammers.
In addition to
teaching at SFCC, Rick is also director of the percussion ensemble at Gonzaga Preparatory School and maintains
a large private teaching studio.
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Zyskowski, Marty; Music Instructor |
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Office: 15-209
Phone: (509) 533-3770
Email: Marty.Zyskowski@spokanefalls.edu
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Marty Zyskowski is a native of Dearborn, Michigan and graduated from The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where
he earned the Bachelor and Master degrees. Marty worked his way through college performing nightly with blues, jazz
and society bands in Detroit, Chicago and Windsor, Canada and was on call regularly to record commercial jingles for
Ford, Chrysler and General Motors Corporations. While attending the University of Michigan, he performed under the
direction of the legendary Dr. William D. Revelli, and recorded on the Vanguard label at Carnegie Hall in New York
City.
Zyskowski joined the music faculty at Eastern Washington University in 1968 at the age of 20, and went on to
distinguish himself over the next three decades as one of the regions leaders in music education and performance. He
served as principal timpanist with The Spokane Symphony Orchestra and NW Bach Festival Orchestra for 36 years and was
the first president of the Washington Percussive Arts Society. Marty was co-founder of The Northwest Percussion
Festival and has served as adjudicator, clinician and guest soloist conductor throughout the US and Canada.
Professor Zyskowski was awarded the PTI (Pacific Foundation Faculty Achievement Award) medal for teaching excellence
in 1966 and was inducted into the WMEA (Washington Music Educators) Hall of Fame in 2000. In 1993, he was invited to
present a series of master classes at The Royal Academy of Music at Copenhagen, Denmark and was escorted by Jans
Pustjens (principal percussion with the Concertgebauw, Amsterdam) to evaluate European timpani instruments at the
Adams Music Corporation, Thorn, Holland.
In 1997, Marty was recipient of a United State Agency for International Development (USAID) grant to teach western
music and study African drumming techniques at The University of Cape Coast, Ghana, West Africa. Zyskowski then
founded and developed the African Drum Ensemble program at EWU and has presented numerous workshops, lectures and
performances throughout the Northwest as part of the Eastern Horizons series "An American Drummer in Africa".
Professor Zyskowski conducted the EWU Symphonic Orchestra and was founder/conductor of The EWU Film, Art and
Theatre Orchestra. Marty is Professor Emeritus at EWU and is currently Music Director and Conductor of The Wenatchee
Valley Symphony Orchestra.
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