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Eric HollenbeckColorado State University
Eric R. Hollenbeck is currently the Assistant Professor of Percussion at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. He is also a Doctoral candidate at the Northwestern School of Music and a former Assistant Professor of Percussion at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in Percussion Performance, and a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from Kent State University.
Eric Hollenbeck is currently the Vice President of the Colorado Chapter of the Colorado Chapter of the Percussive Arts society and performs as principal timpanist with the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra and the Fort Collins Wind Symphony. Eric is an adjudicator for the Rock Mountain Percussion Association.
Eric has coached and arranged for over forty high schools and collegiate drum lines, including the West Genesee High School, N. Y., and the University of Illinois. The UAB drumline under his direction placed second at the Percussive Artist Society International Indoor Drumline Competition at the 2000 PASIC. Eric Hollenbeck was a member of the 1989 Dutch Boy Drum and Bugle Corps and the Rochester Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps.
Mr. Hollenbeck has performed with the Columbus Symphony, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Sinfonia Da Camera, St. Martins in the Fields Orchestra, and the Alabama Symphony. He has worked under such conductors as Pierre Boulex, Alassandro Siciliani, Ian Hobson, and Leonard Slatkin.
Eric has studied with orchestral percussionist, Tom Freer and Paul Yancich of the Cleveland Orchestra, Tom Siwe of the Chicago Lyric Opera, Jim Ross and Vadim Karpinos of the Chicago Symphony. As a Marimbist, he has studied with Michael J. Burritt and Leigh Howard Stevens. He has marched under the direction of Thom Hannum and Brent Montgomery. He has studied drum set with Paul Wertico of the Pat Metheny Group, Ed Thigpen of the Oscar Peterson Trio, and Chicago Jazz legend Joel Spencer.
Eric has performed with Bob Becker, Dave Samuels, Chester Thompson, Yamaha Performing Artist Kenneth Carroll, and Mark Nelson. He has appeared with such groups as the Xavier Cougar Orchestra and the Jack Daniel’s Silver Cornet Band. He has recorded with the Illinois Symphonic Band under the direction of James Kenne, and the steel drum group, I-Pan. In chamber music, he has recorded on Mark Nelson’s Tuba CD, the International Cathedral Festival, and the Chicago Chamber Players.
During his 5-year teaching position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, he was awarded the 1999 outstanding teacher for the Arts and Humanities Department. He was voted President of the Alabama Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society in 1997 and was awarded the PAS Outstanding Chapter President in 1999.
Eric Hollenbeck is an artist/clinician for Innovative Percussion Inc, and the Musser/Ludwig Corporation.
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