Eastman Showcase 2006
Drumming Up Excitement
Current Eastman percussion student Colin Tribby recently completed his first season as a member of the North Carolina-based Open Dream Ensemble. The group creates original works combining dance, music, drama, and design, and does artist residencies throughout the North Carolina public school system. In July 2006, the Open Dream Ensemble will kick off its second season at the Illuminations Festival in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. In addition, Colin’s piece Let Freedom Ring, a setting of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech for speaker and drum ensemble, was performed for the second time at Eastman’s Martin Luther King Day (January 16, 2006) performance in Kilbourn Hall.
Recent alumnus Michael Kozakis (BM ’98) is also drumming up some excitement in a one-year position as a percussionist with the great Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Michael’s recent gigs include an adjunct position on the faculty of Carthage College (Kenosha, WI) and as percussionist in the Ars Viva! Symphony Orchestra of Skokie, IL — an orchestra whose core is made up of Chicago Symphony musicians.