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Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 373 - I-Jen Fang

 
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University of Virginia Associate Professor of Percussion and Principal Timpanist and Percussionist for the Charlottesville Symphony I-Jen Fang stops by [after Pete learns how to say her name at (03:00)] to discuss her recent PASIC 2023 performance for the New Music Research day with Greg Beyer (04:00), her percussion responsibilities at UVA and Charlottesville, the marching band at UVA, and the challenges of recruiting there (12:50), growing up in Taiwan, having artistic parents (who are not in the music field), getting started in piano, and the culture of music there (41:10), studying at Carnegie Mellon University (PA) for undergrad with Tim Adams and performing on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood (53:40), living in Chicago and studying with Michael Burritt for her masters at Northwestern (IL) (01:10:00), doing the doctorate at University of North Texas and her research into the 1986 Marimba Commissions (01:18:45), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, with sections on developing well-rounded percussionists, being an Asian woman in the percussion world, her love and skill at cooking, Anime series, and performing the music of Christopher Deane (01:29:20).

Finishing with a Rave on the movies of Bruce Lee (01:59:00).

I-Jen Fang Links:

I-Jen’s UVA page

I-Jen’s Innovative Percussion page

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Mark Ford in 2023

John Lane in 2023

Eric Willie in 2022

William Moersch in 2019

Jason Baker in 2020

Other Links:

Greg Beyer

Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival

Michael Burritt

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Shenandoah National Forest

Tim Adams

“Wind in the Bamboo Grove” - Keiko Abe

Ju Percussion Group

She-e Wu

“Yellow After the Rain” - Mitchell Peters

“Time for Marimba” - Minoru Miki

Christopher Deane

Rob Moore

Sandi Rennick

Ed Soph

Ed Smith

“Reflections on the Nature of Water” - Jacob Druckman

“Velocities” - Joseph Schwantner

Leigh Howard Stevens

Keiko Abe

Cynthia Yeh

Momoko Kamiya

Nancy Zeltsman

Top Gun: Maverick trailer

Star Wars: The Clone Wars trailer

Hunter x Hunter Set 1 trailer

Hot Tub Time Machine trailer

UVA Men’s Basketball 2018 and 2019

2017 Charlottesville Protests

“Child of Tree” - John Cage

“The Bones of Chung Tzu” - Christopher Deane

Raves:

Fist of Fury - dojo fight

The Way of the Dragon - fight with Chuck Norris

Enter the Dragon - fight vs. O’Hara

  continue reading

102 episodes

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University of Virginia Associate Professor of Percussion and Principal Timpanist and Percussionist for the Charlottesville Symphony I-Jen Fang stops by [after Pete learns how to say her name at (03:00)] to discuss her recent PASIC 2023 performance for the New Music Research day with Greg Beyer (04:00), her percussion responsibilities at UVA and Charlottesville, the marching band at UVA, and the challenges of recruiting there (12:50), growing up in Taiwan, having artistic parents (who are not in the music field), getting started in piano, and the culture of music there (41:10), studying at Carnegie Mellon University (PA) for undergrad with Tim Adams and performing on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood (53:40), living in Chicago and studying with Michael Burritt for her masters at Northwestern (IL) (01:10:00), doing the doctorate at University of North Texas and her research into the 1986 Marimba Commissions (01:18:45), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, with sections on developing well-rounded percussionists, being an Asian woman in the percussion world, her love and skill at cooking, Anime series, and performing the music of Christopher Deane (01:29:20).

Finishing with a Rave on the movies of Bruce Lee (01:59:00).

I-Jen Fang Links:

I-Jen’s UVA page

I-Jen’s Innovative Percussion page

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Mark Ford in 2023

John Lane in 2023

Eric Willie in 2022

William Moersch in 2019

Jason Baker in 2020

Other Links:

Greg Beyer

Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival

Michael Burritt

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Shenandoah National Forest

Tim Adams

“Wind in the Bamboo Grove” - Keiko Abe

Ju Percussion Group

She-e Wu

“Yellow After the Rain” - Mitchell Peters

“Time for Marimba” - Minoru Miki

Christopher Deane

Rob Moore

Sandi Rennick

Ed Soph

Ed Smith

“Reflections on the Nature of Water” - Jacob Druckman

“Velocities” - Joseph Schwantner

Leigh Howard Stevens

Keiko Abe

Cynthia Yeh

Momoko Kamiya

Nancy Zeltsman

Top Gun: Maverick trailer

Star Wars: The Clone Wars trailer

Hunter x Hunter Set 1 trailer

Hot Tub Time Machine trailer

UVA Men’s Basketball 2018 and 2019

2017 Charlottesville Protests

“Child of Tree” - John Cage

“The Bones of Chung Tzu” - Christopher Deane

Raves:

Fist of Fury - dojo fight

The Way of the Dragon - fight with Chuck Norris

Enter the Dragon - fight vs. O’Hara

  continue reading

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