Eric Strom, Percussion

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Eric Strom has been an educator at MacPhail since 1998. He teaches private lessons, Percussion Ensemble I, Percussion for Children (an introductory course for second and third grade students) and works with several community partnerships including Inter-District Downtown School, Minneapolis Jewish Day School, Whittier Community School for the Arts, Emerson Spanish Immersion Learning Center, Cargill Scholars, and MetLife Programs. He is also Director of the Kennedy Percussion Group at Kennedy High School in Bloomington which explores music performance through concert percussion literature and percussion traditions around the world such as Ghanaian drumming, frame drumming, and has established Minnesota’s premiere high school taiko ensemble.

Strom is President of the Percussive Arts Society, Minnesota Chapter - a music service organization promoting percussion education, research, performance and appreciation throughout the world. He is a member of the Minnesota Percussion Trio and the sibling percussion duo Times Two, and is founder of the Impulse Percussion Ensemble. He has performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC), is a former member of the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps and can be heard on the debut CD releases of Bobby Llama and the Snakehips.