Steven Hemphill
Timpani FUNdamentals
Saturday, 9:00 a.m.

Steve Hemphill, Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at Northern Arizona University since 1991, earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music and a doctoral degree from Florida State University. He has performed with the Atlanta Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Savannah and Tallahassee Symphonies, the Phoenix Symphony, the Arizona Opera Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfonica Municipal of Caracas, Venezuela, and the Flagstaff Festival of the Arts Orchestra. He currently serves as principal timpanist wth the Flagstaff Symphony and as principal percussionist with the Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango, Colorado. Hemphill has published articles in Percussive Notes, The Instrumentalist, The International Association of Jazz Educators Journal, Arizona Music News, and a number of statewide educational newsletters. He is associate producer/director of The Art of Timpani instructional video series, and is a past president of PAS Chapters in Arizona and Wyoming.

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