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Cory HillsMultiple Percussionist and Member of Sonic Inertia
http://www.coryhills.com/
Cory Hills is a percussionist, composer and educator that thrives on breaking down musical barriers through innovative and creative endeavors. He recieved his bachelor's degree in percussion performance and music education from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and his master's degree in percussion performance from Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane, Australia. In 2005, Hills was awarded a research fellowship to Institute Fabrica, United Colors of Benetton's research center for the contemporary and exploratory arts located in Treviso, Italy. Hills is currently a doctoral fellow in percussion performance and music theory at the University of Kansas. He has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Choir, and Topeka Symphony, and soloed with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and The United States Army Band.
An advocate of new music, Hills has commissioned and premiered dozens of new works for solo percussion. He is the creator of the The Percussive Art of Storytelling, an interdisciplinary arts performance that brings contemporary music to children in accessible ways. As a member (SI2) Sonic Inertia, an interdisciplinary arts duo with Matthew Coley, Hills has been a featured performer at the 2008 convention for the International Society for Improvised Music and the Days of New Music Festival in Chisinau, Moldova happening this June. In addition, Hills sponsors the annual Con/un/drum Solo Percussion Composition Competition designed to increase repertoire for solo percussion. Hills is a frequent guest artist and clinician throughout the United States and Europe, giving numerous master classes and recitals. As an advocate for percussion as a global artistic discipline, Hills has been named artist-in-residence at Rocky Mountain National Park and named a fellow at the OMI international artist's colony.
Hills is a member of the Percussive Arts Society's Education Committee, and the organizer for the 2009 Day of Percussion in the Public Schools. recently, the Kansas Arts Commission named Hills as a 2009 Emerging Artist for the music performance and composition. Hills endorses Vaughncraft percussion.
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