All Artists

John R. Beck has performed with a wide variety of ensembles in a diversity of musical styles. He is a member of the faculty at the North Carolina School of the Arts, and a percussionist with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Brass Band of Battle Creek, and the Philidor Percussion Group.

Percussion and assistant principal timpanist

Jean-Baptiste is regularly producing himself in chamber music as during the Deauville festival and also with Alexandre Paley, the percussions of the Orchestre National de France (ad ONF) and his colleagues of the Opera National de Paris: Laurent Verney, Fabien Wallerand, Alexis Demailly, Alexis Descharmes. With these three artists he recorded Rauche Pinselspitze II de Klaus Huber (record awarded prize of the Charles Cros Academy in 2010). Jean-Baptiste is also participating to the recordings of movies soundtracks (Oceans, Gosuto: Mo Ichido Dakishimetai…) and accompany popular artists during their tours (Amaury Vassili) or TV shows (Mariah Carey, Michael Bublé, Johnny Hallyday…).

Casey Cangelosi is a rising composer and percussionist in the contemporary music world. Casey has been called "the Paganini of percussion," his technique deemed, "ridiculous...he has a stunning command of the marimba," his compositions hailed as "imposing and exhilarating," and by the Classical Marimba League, "A marimbist of magisterial power, and insight."

Arun over the years, has carved a niche for himself in the world of percussion as one of the few drummers who does inter-disciplinary music. For the past fifteen years, Arun has been sharing the stage with Indian classical music’s geniuses like Ghatam maestro Vikku Vinayakram, Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain, Tavil maestros Haridwaramangalam A K Palanivel, Mannargudi Vasudevan, Mutthu Kumaraswamy, Ghatam maestro V Suresh and Khanjira maestro Selva Ganesh. Arun also has been performing with India’s renowned Jazz musicians like Ranjit Barot, Amit Heri, Karl Peters, Louis Banks, Gino Banks and Keith Peters.

Assistant principal timpani/section percussion with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra

Jeremy Branson has been a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony since September of 2008. Mr. Branson is also a percussion faculty member at Duquesne University.

The coming year sees Neil enjoying the joint milestone of 20 years as a member of the London Symphony Orchestra and 10 years as Head of the Timpani and Percussion Department at the Royal Academy of Music.

Jonathan Fox is the Principal Percussionist and Principal Timpanist of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.