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Jan Williams & Stuart Marrs
Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
Lecture/Demonstration
Wednesday, 2:00 p.m.


Jan Williams	Stuart Marrs
Jan Williams is a percussion soloist and conductor. Composers who have written works especially for him include Lukas Foss, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Joel Chadabe, Morton Feldman, Orlando Garcia, Gustavo Matamoros, Luis de Pablo, Frederic Rzewski, Nils Vigeland and lannis Xenakis. He has toured extensively throuxghout the United States, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia and has recorded for Columbia, Vox/Turnabout, Desto, Lovely Music, Spectrum, Wergo, DGG, Orion, Hat-Art, OO, New World, Deep Listening, EMF and Mode Records. He served as co-artistic director of the North American New Music Festival, with Yvar Mikhashoff, from 1985 to 1991. He is professor emeritus at the University at Buffalo, where he directed the percussion program for thirty years and served as chair of the music department from 1980 to 1984. He is Trustee of the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music.	As soloist, clinician, orchestral timpanist-percussionist, conductor, and teacher, Dr. Stuart Marrs’s professional experience spans over thirty-five years and three continents. His principal orchestral positions include the orchestras of Louisville, Bolivia, and Costa Rica. His free-lance experience includes such diverse areas as television, Ice Capades, jazz, symphonic orchestras, experimental groups, and solo and chamber recital performances. Marrs has an extensive international profile having taught and performed in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, El Salvador, Bolivia, and Costa Rica. Marrs is founder and past president of the Maine Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society. He has taught at the National University of Costa Rica, Indiana University, and the University of Maine, where he presently occupies the position of chair of the music division. In 2005, he authored the analytical DVD entitled Stuart Marrs on Elliott Carter: Eight Pieces for Four Timpani-Performance and Analysis.