Jazz Up Your Percussion Skills With Steve Houghton
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 27, 2018) — University of Kentucky Percussion Studies will help sponsor a workshop on jazz percussion performance practice by Steve Houghton, professor of percussion and jazz at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. The workshop will run 12:30 p.m.-1:50 p.m. Thursday, March 29, in Room 22 of the UK Fine Arts Building. The workshop is free and open to the public.
Internationally renowned jazz drummer, percussionist, clinician, author and educator, Steve Houghton initially received acclaim at age 20 as the drummer with Woody Herman’s Young Thundering Herd. Since then he has shared stage and studio with luminaries Freddie Hubbard, Rufus Reid, Gary Burton, Dave Stryker, Clay Jenkins, Shelly Berg, Jared Gold, Lyle Mays, Bob Sheppard, Billy Childs, Bobby Hutcherson, Pat LaBarbara, Bobby Shew, Geoff Keezer, Bob Bowman, Walter Smith III, Wayne Bergeron, Bill Cunliffe, Arturo Sandoval, Steve Allee, Joe Henderson, Ray Brown and Eddie Henderson, among others.
In addition to his academic duties, Houghton presents yearly clinics and masterclasses to students around the world, most recently in Germany, England, China, New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan. Houghton is a past president of the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) and a founding member of the Jazz Education Network (JEN). He endorses Yamaha drums and percussion, Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth sticks and mallets, and Remo world percussion products and drumheads.
For more information on Steve Houghton's workshop, contact James Campbell, director of UK Percussion Studies, at 859-257-8187.
The UK School of Music in the UK College of Fine Arts has garnered national recognition for high-caliber education in opera, choral and instrumental music performance, as well as music education, music therapy, composition, and theory and music history.
