Bob Adney, Percussion

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Bob Adney, Music Educator/Percussionist/Timpanist, has been a part of the Twin Cities music community for 33 years. In that time he has played with virtually every musical organization in the area. He has a discography of over 22 cds performing with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Dale Warland Singers and the World Voices Choir. He has accompanied the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra on 5 national tours and two tours of Asia including concerts with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra at the prestigious Ojai Music Festival in California (May 2007)and the University of Chicago 2008 Olivier Messiaen Festival (October 2008).   He begins his 3rd year as associate principal timpanist with the South Dakota Symphony, during the summers he is the timpanist for the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra. Performing highlights for fall 2009 include L’Histoire du Soldat with MacPhail Faculty, Bartok’s Sonata for Percussion with the Baaken Trio, Carmina Burana with MN Dance/MN Chorale and Casanova’s Homecoming with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Minnesota Opera. In addition he is a founding member of the Minnesota Percussion Trio (1987) (minnesotapercussiontrio.com). This group has played in over 700 schools and continues to play throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Adney teaches at Northwestern College (1979), Gustavus Adolphus College (1996) and the MacPhail Center for Music (1976). He has served on the faculties of Hamline, Augsburg, St. Thomas, St. Katherine, St. Cloud State, St. Benedict, Carlton and St. Olaf. He is the author of several self-published instructional books for percussion as well as a handful of arrangements and original compositions for percussion ensemble.  Adney directs MacPhail’s Percussion Ensemble II (ages 12-17) and the adult marimba band MacRimba, additionally he is the camp director of the Percussion and Mallet Summer Camps at MacPhail Center for Music.