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Current Projects

Castaway Bay Steel Band

I'm in Ohio working for Cedar Point for a winter season of christmas steel pan music as well as the spring for several shows of Rock, Calypso, and Funk.

We performed Sleigh Ride, The Christmas Song, Jingle Bell Rock, This Christmas, Trepak and are now playing Jump in the Line, Under the Sea, You and Your Heart, Oye Como Va, Rant and Rave, as well as The Hammer, Just the Two Of Us, Kokomo, Come on Eileen, Hot Hot Hot, and I Wish.

Pan in Motion

Education Coordinator for Pan in Motion!

Gamelan Yowana Sari

Since forming in 2011, Gamelan Yowana Sari has been a performing Balinese Art Ensemble in residence at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, NYC. Under the direction of Michael Lipsey and Fred Trumpy, Yowana Sari have toured Bali multiple times, studying and performing under the master composer and musician I Dewa Ketut Alit in Pengosekan, Bali. In 2024, the group has commissioned new works from Michael Gordon and Evan Ziporyn, which were performed alongside compositions by Dewa Ketut Alit, Vivian Fung, and Kyle Miller at Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival and MASS MoCA Summer Music Festival. Following these performances, GYS has returned to Bali to study and perform with Dewa Alit’s Gamelan Salukat, as well as to record their debut album.

BK Steppers

I'm a teaching artist with the wonderful group BK Steppers! They have Saturday classes for elementary kids and weekly classes within the NYC schools. I recently got to teach at their DOE seminar!

G-Line

BDEntertainment G-Line : Drumming for the Giants!

BMCDE

​The Brooklyn Motion Capture Dance Ensemble is an organization dedicated to breathing life into emerging forms of artistic expression. Based on the belief that all people should have the facility and confidence to express themselves, BMCDE is committed to expanding who is considered an artist, and sonically empowering all movers through the exploration of technology-based experiences.

Past Events

- 2025 -

She Loves Me

I'm back at my favorite theater in NYC for She Loves Me at Maggie's Little Theater in Queens!

Here's ​a little scrub through of She Loves Me from our final show a couple of weeks ago!

Legally Blonde

Subbing Legally Blonde at the Gallery Players Theater in Brooklyn.

Pippin

Subbing Pippin at The Heights Players in Brooklyn

Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening at The Narrows Community Theater in Fort Hamilton Brooklyn.

Mangrove Steel at London Panorama

​My first First Place at a Panorama, first time being in the Best Section, and my first time being in Europe!
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I cannot begin to express how grateful I am to the tenor section and @mangrovesteelband for allowing me to come over and play with them. This was such an incredible experience with incredible people. Im especially thankful for Lisa, Myriam, Sarah, and Anne for their support and for making the back row of tenors such an amazing spot to be!
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I’m tired and maybe have a sinus infection but I wouldn’t trade my time in London for anything else. Thanks @quelled_photography and @micaalicesteelpannist for inviting me and talking me into coming when I went back and forth about it. I’m eternally grateful for their friendship and support!
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Thanks to Zeina for showing me around the. Dutiful city and for coming to the pan yard to support me evening knowing the crowds were rowdy and the music was loud!

🎶Cocoa Tea by Kes
🎧arr. Andre White

folx in NYC

folx premieres a New York version of Glimpses with a performance at Mise En Ensemble's location in Harlem. Poetry, Music, Identity, Stories, People, Community. We wouldn’t be able to be creatives without all of your support and encouragement. Thanks for making this show so magical; we hope you had as amazing a time as we did!

Brooklyn Steel Pan Fête

​🎶 Get ready to feel the rhythm of summer! 🎶
Join us for Counterpoint: Brooklyn Steel Pan Fête — a FREE celebration of Caribbean culture, music, and community! 🌞🥁

📅 Sunday, July 27, 2025
🕑 2–6 PM
📍 Ticketmaster Plaza at Barclays Center

🔥 Featuring:
🎵 Eruption Steel Orchestra
🎵 Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra
🎵 Pan in Motion
🎧 Hosted by DJ Silencer

The Wiz - Fidelity Theatricals

Fidelity Theatricals presents The Wiz at Don't Tell Mama in Manhattan.

folxlore​ by Ben Hausman

folxlore was written for my friends in folx Percussion, a percussion collective founded by Kendall Rhymer and McKenzie Squires. Their mission is to create a safe and positive environment for an all female and non-binary percussion group where its members are free to create music and explore the unconventional. The base instrumentation: glockenspiel and metal pipes, was inspired by some of the projects they have worked on together. folxlore (pronounced folklore) is a love letter to queer experimentation. 

Pride NYC

Blue Devils Entertainment hosted the NFL drumline for the New York City Pride Parade in the East Village.

folx Percussion Residency

What an experience it was attending NNSF as one of the ensembles in residence! It was great to share our project folx’s Glimpses with everyone in our showcase concert at Knoxville Museum of Art , premiere Anissa Ibrahim's piece woman, body, rage perform on WDVX's Blue Plate Special, premiere Joshua Muetzel's piece Ontology, and play some old favorites.

BK Steppers @ Carnegie

The Orchestra Rocks
Link Up guides students in grades 3–5 through a yearlong exploration of orchestral repertoire and music making. During the 2024–2025 season, New York City students will participate in a new version of The Orchestra Rocks, exploring rhythm, pulse, groove, and how it feels when the orchestra rocks. At the end of the year, students will sing and play the recorder with a professional orchestra in a culminating concert at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. Concerts will take place on May 20, 21, and 22, 2025.

Reading Session for Kiddies in the Bronx

Reading some music and stories written by elementary kids, my heart is full. This was such a cool little Wednesday project!
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Over the course of 14 weeks some students (3rd-5th grade) learn some music through percussion and write stories then compose for an ensemble of professional musicians. I was one of those lucky professional musicians and I had a blast! What a cool idea and program to have students write stories and music to go along with those stories. Maybe one of these children will become a famous composer or story teller and remember me playing some percussion for them. 

Something Rotten

Gallery Players presents SOMETHING ROTTEN!

Book by Karey Kirkpatrick & John O’Farrell
Music & Lyrics by Karey Kirkpatrick & Wayne Kirkpatrick

Directed by: Mark Gallagher
Choreographed by: Ryan Hendricks
Produced by Cathy Cosentino

Performances run May 3 - May 18, 2025

​Production poster graphics design by Chris Kind, Performing Pixel Design

Protestra

Join us May 10 for the next installment in the PROTESTRA 2025 series, A Concert for the 99%!

The concert will protest the outsized influence that corporations and the billionaire class hold over the U.S. government and call on elected officials to work for the American people.

​The concert’s finale transforms Petrushka, Stravinsky’s ballet about a Russian puppet master and his puppets, into a timely critique of U.S. government leaders who cater to oligarchs, autocrats, and corporate interests at the expense of the 99%.

Meshuggah-Nuns!

Meshuggah-Nuns! presented by Maggie's Little Theater in Queens, NY. Music Director Ray Naccari
Performance dates are March 23, 29, 30, April 5 & 6, 2025

Jesus Christ Superstar

March 14 - 23, Utopia Opera presents:
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Lyrics by Tim Rice

Invaders - Blessings

Panorama Finals in Trinidad with Shell Invaders Steel Orchestra. They presented Blessings by Blaka Dan arranged by Arddin Herbert.

Watch Finals here!

A Night of Theatrical Percussion

A Night of Theatrical Percussion curated by Catwalk Trio and presented at Player's Theater in the Village. Performers include: McKenzie Squires, Sean Statser, Russell Fisher, Michael Yueng, and Catwalk Trio.
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Video Performance and Program Notes

-2024-

Carnegie Hall debut

Reflects du Silence with Vox Feminarum at Carnegie Hall

To the Earth

DiMenna Center debut! ​𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐇: 𝐀 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜, 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐫𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚

Recording Sessions

collaborations with Dice Trio and folx Percussion as well as some individual recordings for their project that comes out in 2025!

Athena Entertainment

​Drummer for Athena Entertaiment productions/events!

The Selkie Bride

The Selkie Bride - a new musical reading inspired by celtic folklore. The Madison Theater at Molloy University in LI.

Panorama 2024

My second year of participating in Pan in Motion's performance NYC Panorama 2024!

Sandbox Percussion's The JUMP UP!

Douglas J. Cuomo: THE JUMP UP!
​(World Premiere, co-commissioned by Caramoor)

THE JUMP UP! is a celebration of the joy of communal music making, composed by Douglas J. Cuomo (Doubt, Arjuna’s Dilemma) for Sandbox Percussion and volunteer percussionists from the local community. This free outdoor performance will have the musicians roaming through Caramoor’s beautiful Sunken Garden, with the audience encouraged to freely move about the players, each listener navigating their own interaction with the music.

folx Percussion

Check out my percussion collectives' upcoming projects through our website!

Shows this year will be performed in Connecticut, North Carolina, and New York.

Nief-Norf 2024

Till human voices wake us and we drown - Henri Colombat
?! (Interrobang) - Joshua Muetzel
floating down the river with a mycelial growth named soup - Rain Michael
to wALk Or ruN in wEst harlem - Andy Akiho
Workers Union - Louis Andriessen​
Spoons - Juri Seo
Parlour Games - Meredith Monk
IV - Johanna Beyer
Watch the performances here

The Trojan Women

Joins us for a brand new, searing adaptation of Euripides' infamous play The Trojan Women, directed and created by Anna Rebek (Yale, Columbia, Juilliard). Set in the Meditteranean haven of Casa Clara (218 East 25th St), audiences will be just inches away from some of the most harrowing events in all of classical tragedy. The show opens just after the mythical violence of the Trojan War (Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid) when all the women of Troy have been rounded up only to be split off as prizes to their Greek conquerors. Lead by their former queen Hecuba, these women experience the devastation of being a conquered people. This play resonates with the current state of war, exploring how often our humanity is the cost of victory, and as women and children continue to suffer the greatest consequences of battle.
Read more here

Here I Am

Here I Am is an off-broadway musical. I was hired by Christian Cantrell to workshop and play the drum set book for this musical. 
*I am in no way associated with Samantha Roberts

Fiddler on the Roof

I Subbed for Morgan Parker for Fiddler on the Roof at the Gateway Playhouse in Long Island!!

-2023-

Utopia Opera

HMS PINAFORE
words by W.S. Gilbert
music by Arthur Sullivan

Full cast and orchestra finally bring life to one of Gilbert & Sullivan's greatest successes, never yet presented by Utopia Opera! Presented in a semi-staged production with dialogue, supertitles, extra jokes, subtracted jokes, costumes, costumelettes, choreography (where appropriate), and a special appearance by Ringo Starr.

Free Iran Protest at the UN

Pan in Motion - Panorama

​4th Placed Pan In Motion at New York Panorama 2023 playing Voice's "Long Live Soca" arranged by Dr. Kendall K. Williams. (264)

SōSI 2023

Claire Rousay (work shop)
20 answers - Pamela Z
music for the small hours - Emma O’Halloran *
Inevitable - Christina George *
Go Placidly with Haste - Jason Treuting
Tension:Release - Ethan Isaac *
Animal - Francisco del Pino *
Orange Arrow - Jason Treuting (arr. For Double Seconds)​
view the full playlist here

View this performance of folx at SōSI

Nief Norf 2023

exulansis : dictionary of obscure sorrows - Annika Socolofsky
Time Windows - Aidan Gold *
Modern day minding days; For Open Spaces - marc perez
Stages of Drowning - marc perez *
it free wonderful - Hayden Mesnick *
Travel - Thomas Ward *
Elemenohpi - Ian T. Jones *
Luminous - Joe Moore III
JNNJ - JooWon Park
seeds to plant in an unmarked grave - Rain Michael
Nested Duets - JooWon Park
view the full playlist here

Three Sisters

Performance of Three Sisters at 2Rivers Theatre in Red Bank, NJ.

Performances at NYU

deconstruction

My masters recital at NYU. Presented on April 30th, 2023.

Composers: Yaz Lancaster, Emma O'Halloran, Emily McPherson, Molly Joyce, Annika Socolofsky

read more here: program notes
view the performance here

Re(new)al - Viet Cuong

NYU Concerto Concert with the NYU Orchestra1

Solosts in the Quartet: McKenzie Squires, Grace Sprecher, Adriana Harrison, and AJ Moresy

​Listen to an audio recording here.

Duo Lingo Concert

Graduate Percussion Experience taught by Josh Quillen Presents the graduate percussion duo: Duo Lingo.

Crossroads - Ivan Trevino
Ember (premiere) - Alyssa Weinberg
Uniformity - Molly Joyce
Katana of Choice (trio version) - Nicky Lizee * 
Dream - John Cage
Double Happiness - Chris Cerrone

*premiere

NYU Quartet Experience

The NYU Quartet 2021-2022 are happy to present an afternoon of percussion quartet music. Their program includes pieces by Annika Socolofsky, Alyssa Weinberg, Jason Treuting, John Cage, Ivan Trevino and Paul Lansky.

In the Air Tonight ESPN

NYU's Percussion Studio's performance of In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins for the Sunday Morning Tribute.

Javier's video can be viewed here!



I do not own the rights to audio or video, other than that I am a performer in the recording/ensemble.

Other Notable Performances at NYU

Performances at Western Carolina University

Final Undergrad Recital: Dyad

Reese Maultsby: Coalescence
Hubard: Soda Song
Xenakis: Rebonds B
O'Halloran: meditation for metal pipes
Druckman: Reflections on the Nature of Water mvts 1-3
Aeryn Santillon: Silent Town (with electronics)
Chad Heiny: Auroras mvt 2,3,4 (with electronics)
Molly Joyce: Head to Toe
Yaz Lancaster: Sequoia

Program Notes

Everybody Hits

WCU Percussion Ensemble Concert Spring '21

I was beyond lucky to perform on this wonderful showcase of the Everybody Hits Commission for percussion pieces. I performed meditations for metal pipes by the esteemed Dr. Emma O'Halloran!

Some Fun with Magic Flute (by Mozart)

While recording my audition materials for Graduate School Auditions, I met with Josh Quillen (So Percussion, NYU) to talk about some of my videos. We discussed the timing of Magic Flute (as well as some of my other pieces). He suggested I put on a backing track, so here is my new and improved version of Magic Flute.

Calypso beat used: ​https://youtu.be/b5eVGshlneM

Ceci N'est Pas Un Jouet (This is Not a Toy)

Ceci N'est Pas Un Jouet by Gene Koshinski is a piece that I have had sitting in my stack of random pieces of music for a couple of years now, but I've never played it. The only other person that I knew of that had a hand-crank music box was Kendall Rhymer, so we sat down the other day and played through it. I am obsessed with the sounds that we created and this wonderful piece! Make sure to go check out Quey Percussion's original version and the dance that goes with the piece!!

Grad School Pieces

I'm currently working on my Graduate school applications and want to share my final videos with all of you! More information on the process as well as videos of my pieces can be found here.
Repertoire:
SOLO REPERTOIRE
Marimba
Druckman : Reflections on the Nature of Water
“Crystalline”
“Fleet”
Bach: “Bourree” from Lute Suite in E minor
Snare Drum
Delecluse: "Etude 9" from ​Douze Etudes Pour Casse-Claire
Delecluse: “Etude 1” from Keiskleiriana
Tompkins: “Solo No. 9” from Nine French-American Rudimental Solos
Timpani
Carter: “Moto Perpetuo” from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
Multiple Percussion
Xenakis: Rebonds B
ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS
Snare Drum
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, mvt. 3 - reh. K (with condensed rests)
Prokofiev: Lt. Kije Suite, Op. 60 - reh. 1-2
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, mvt 3 - D-E and mvt 4 - P-R
Keyboard
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Suite, No. 5 Valse - m. 144-176
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - m. 4-17
Messiaen: Exotic Birds - reh. 6-7
Mozart: Magic Flute​ excerpt
Timpani
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, mvt. 1 - m. 513-end
Schuman: New England Triptych, mvt 1 - m. 1-13
Mozart: Symphony No. 39, mvt. 1 - m. 1-21 (with condensed rests)

WCU Quarantine PE

During the pandemic when we were allowed to return to the Whee but were not allowed to perform together in ensembles we filmed and performed Sarah Hennies Everything Else. It has finally been released to the world and I cannot wait for people to hear our version!

Harmony Project with So

I was invited to join So Percussion's recording project for the Harmony Program (based in NYC)!

​Harmony at Home Lesson 1 - Rhythm and Percussion, featuring So Percussion
John Cage - ​Living Room Music
Performed with So Percussion for the Harmony Project Summer 2020
Performance starts at 28:04

Vous avez du Feu?

Quarantine hit everyone differently and when my junior recital was cancelled I decided that I still wanted to be creative. The ladies of the percussion studio and I were supposed to perform Vous avez du Feu? by Emmanuel Séjourné. Since the piece is very accessible we moved online. I immediately forgot about it in all the chaos but I finally finished it. May I present four of the six Womxn of the WCU Percussion Studio performing Vous avez du feu? Enjoy!

SoSI 2020

This Summer I was fortunate to be able to participate in So Perucussion's Virtual Summer Institute!  I cannot express how amazing this was and how amazing everyone who participated in it made my experience. The playlist of videos and collaborations can be found here!

Projects I participated in:
​Clapping Music by Steve Reich
Codex Mvt II by Lawton Hall
Shifting Ground by Elijah Smith
In C by Terry Riley
Why Don’t We Go Where There It Is What The Time by Theo Trevisan
Just Waves by Martin Schmidt
Tuning Meditation by Pauline Oliveros
Our Amore Vieni – Jason Treuting
Our Amore Vieni - Cenk Ergun
Amore Vieni – Jack Herscowitz
Amore Vieni – Dan Langa
Living Room Music - John Cage

Eastman's Virtual Summer Percussion Festival

I was fortunate to have to opportunity to interact with lots of wonderful and kind percussionists in the summer of 2020 through Eastman School of Music's first annual Summer Percussion Festival. I had hoped to be able to travel to this festival in-person, but had a wonderful experience online and would highly recommend this to any percussionist. Some artists that I interacted with were Michael Burritt, Ivan Trevino, John Beck, EscapeX Duo, Doug Perkins, and Todd Meehan!

Junior Recital at Home

2020 is crazy so far, but I had the amazing opportunity to get back into the recital hall after weeks away to record my repertoire. Enjoy!

​Rondo by Joe Demarco
Vous avez du feu? by Emmanuel Séjourné
Texas Hoedown by David Friedman
A Cool Gadget for Tambourine by Casey Cangelosi
Breaking Point by Rob Smith
​Swerve by Gene Koshinski

Macy's Thanksgiving Parade 2019

I was fortunate to travel with the Price of the Mountain's Marching Band to New York City to perform cymbals during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Other Notable Performances at WCU

Percussion Ensemble
- October Mountain by Alan Hovhaness
- Curious Surroundings by Clif Walker (premiere)
- Jason Treuting's Amid the Noise
- Escape by Drew Worden
- Vicious Children by Wally Gunn
​- Land Electric by Emma O’Halloran
- Death Wish by Gemma Peacocke
- Waltz by Johanna Beyer
- White Pines by Michael Burritt
- to wALk Or ruN in wEst harlem by Andy Akiho
- Credo in Us by John Cage
- Shell by Emma O’Halloran,
- Everything Else by Sarah Hennies
- Perfectly Voiceless by Devonté Hynes
​- Meditation for Metal Pipes by Emma O'Halloran
Steel Pan
- Sounds of the Seasons Christmas Show
- Year for Love (panorama)

​Aunklung and Gamelan Ensembles

Large Ensembles
​- Porgy and Bess overture (arr. James Barnes for Wind Band)
​- Star Wars
- Angels in the Architecture by Frank Ticheli
- Terpsichorean Dances and Letters from Sado by Jodie Blackshaw
-  Mother of A Revolution by Omar Thomas