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 Thom
Hasenpflug - Bio
Dr. Thom Hasenpflug
is
nationally recognized as a unique performer and educational voice,
while his compositions for percussion receive international recognition
and are played all over the world. Currently the Director of Percussion
Studies (Associate
Professor of Music) at
Idaho State University , he
has held prior teaching posts at
Drake University, the University of South Dakota, Emporia State
University, and the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts.
Dr.
Hasenpflug has presented performances, clinics and masterclasses at
many universities, high schools, and festivals, for several Percussive
Arts Society chapter Days of Percussion, and at the 2005 PAS
International Convention. As a composer, he has been commissioned by
some of the field’s leading percussionists, and has received
top awards
in the 1995 PAS composition contest for South of Jupiter,
as well as
receiving the 1993 Louis Smadbeck prize for Six Bagatelles.
He
has also judged several contests for
various PAS activities, and was a featured composer-artist at both the
2006 and 2007
International Conventions. Other
recent international
performances of his works have occurred in London, Barcelona, Hong
Kong, Taiwan, Dublin, Rio de Janiero, Venezuela, and Sweden, by various
percussion groups / individuals of note.
He has performed as a member
of numerous symphonies, including acting as principal timpanist in the
South Dakota Symphony, and more recently principal percussionist here
with the Idaho State Civic Symphony. Dr. Hasenpflug has performed in
symphonic and freelance capacities with artists as diverse as Peter
Cetera, the Moody Blues, Blood Sweat and Tears, Riders in the Sky, and
many others. He has also fronted the Hasenproject percussion
group with brother, Andrew, whose album
“Compercussions”
has received
critical acclaim (check it out here on this site!)
Born
in
1966, he received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in percussion and
composition from Ithaca
College, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of
Colorado, having studied primarily with Gordon
Stout, Doug Walter, Greg Woodward, Joe Lukasik, and secondarily with
Bill Molenhof and Dana
Wilson. Additionally, Hasenpflug was
fortunate to study privately with notable Pulitzer Prize-winning
composers during
their respective residencies at Ithaca College, including John
Corigliano, William
Bolcom, and Karel Husa. Thom Hasenpflug has percussion works published
through
K.P.P. (a division of Malletech
- Mostly Marimba),
Go Fish Music, and C. Alan
Publications, as well as his
own label, “Hasenworks.” He is a proud endorser of Pro-Mark
Sticks and
Mallets, Remo Drumheads, and Sabian Cymbals.
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