Summer Percussion Academy Workshop

The 2021 IU Summer Percussion Academy/Workshop (scheduled for July 11-17, 2021) has been cancelled. We hope to include information for the 2022 IU Summer Percussion Academy/Workshop very soon.

This intensive 6-day event is offered to talented percussionists. Applicants in grades 7 through 12 are invited to apply for the Pre-College Session (Academy). Applicants over 18 years of age are invited to apply for the Adult Session (Workshop), with both offerings running concurrently.

Master classes, clinics, and performances will be presented by internationally-renowned performers.

No audition required! However, all participants must be able to read music (medium level difficulty).

Academy faculty

John Tafoya

John Tafoya is a professor of percussion and chair of the Percussion Department at the IU Jacobs School of Music. He served as principal timpanist of the National Symphony Orchestra (1999 to 2007) and has also performed with the Indianapolis Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, and Detroit Symphony Orchestras.

For more information, please contact musicsp@indiana.edu.

Summer Percussion Academy Workshop

Summer Percussion Academy Workshop

Academy faculty

John Tafoya, director