Thank you for your interest in joining the NAU Kitt School of Music Percussion studio! Percussion professor Dr. Abby Fisher cultivates an environment where discovery, creativity, and personal and professional development flourishes. The KSOM provides experience-based education, balancing performance and academics in a way that leads to successful careers and lifelong involvement in music.
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Why NAU?
- NAU Kitt School of Music boasts a strong support structure, close faculty contact, and smaller class sizes. A moderate size program (approximately 400 music majors) means comfortable surroundings, rich relationships with colleagues and faculty, and a familial atmosphere where true friendships are easily developed, while also being large enough to provide exceptional training and experiences.
- Freshmen face immediate immersion and opportunity for performance experience in ensembles
- An exceptional environment to study, create, and present in numerous disciplines of percussion performance within a variety of genres and collaborations – solo & chamber, orchestral, jazz, marching, contemporary, historic, world & cultural, improvisation and experimental
- Excellent leadership opportunities including principal positions in concert ensembles (Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band, Orchestra)
- Drum set chairs in jazz ensembles and combos
- Section/segment leadership positions in marching band drum line
- Solo performance opportunities: master classes, studio recitals, degree recitals, honor recitals, and concerto competitions
- Energetic, experienced ensemble conductors/directors who advance judiciously designed short and long-term musical and technical goals
- Well-equipped percussion practice facilities with in-house technological resources
- Opportunity to audition and perform in the per-service Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra percussion section
Music Degrees
NAU Kitt School of Music offers the following music degrees, and requires an audition for acceptance into the program:
- Bachelor of Music Education
- Bachelor of Music Performance
- Bachelor of Arts in Music
- Music Minor
- Masters of Music Performance
- Graduate Certificate
NAU Percussion Ensemble
An integral component of percussion studies at Northern Arizona University, the NAU Percussion Ensemble performs extensively on campus and throughout Arizona. The development of chamber music performance skills is at the core of the ensemble’s existence. The ensemble repertoire comprises a wide variety of musical and cultural styles, including standard and contemporary percussion works, West African Ewe drumming, and Brazilian batucada. Membership of the ensemble is established primarily of percussion performance and education majors, and is also open to select music minors and majors of diverse academic disciplines (non-music majors) through audition/interview.