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Welcome to the Official Website of the

Mid Missouri Percussion Arts Trophy 

Mid-Missouri Percussion Arts Trophy

March 3, 2012

Cowan Civic Center

Event Schedule

8:00am Marimba and Multiple Percussion/Drum set competition begin
1:15pm Multiple Percussion/Drum set Award Ceremony featuring the Lebanon Jr. High Percussion Orchestra
1:45pm Multiple Percussion/Drum set Master-class with Matt Henry of UMSL
3:45pm  Marimba Award Ceremony featuring Lebanon High School Percussion Orchestra
4:00pm Marimba Masterclass with Mark Ford of University of North Texas
7:30pm  Evening Concert featuring Truman State University Percussion and Mark Ford
9:00pm Backstage Reception

Competition Categories for 2012

Unaccompanied Solo Marimba and Unaccompanied Solo Multiple Percussions/Drum set

 This year's Solo Artist/Clinician will be

Mark Ford

Mark Ford is the coordinator of percussion activities at The University of North Texas in Denton, Texas and a Past-President of the Percussive Arts Society. He is a marimba specialist and the coordinator of one of the largest percussion programs in the United States at UNT. Ford is an active performer on the marimba and he has been featured throughout the United States at universities and music conferences. He also regularly performs at International Music Festivals in South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

With several marimba and percussion CDs to his credit, Mark’s recordings have further established his dedication to excellence in music. Ford’s solo marimba CDs, Motion Beyond and Polaris, have received outstanding reviews including The Instrumentalist which stated Ford's performance is "superb and his compositional style is equally outstanding." Mark has also recorded two DVDs and a CD with Japanese virtuoso marimbist Keiko Abe and the UNT Wind Symphony.

As a composer Mark Ford has written several popular works for solo marimba and percussion ensemble including Head Talk, Polaris, Kingdom Lore Fanfare, Stubernic, Afta-Stuba!, Heads Up! and The Surface of Life. His compositions have been performed at universities and concert halls throughout the world and also featured on National Public Radio. Ford is also the author of Marimba: Technique Through Music, a four-mallet marimba method book published by Innovative Percussion, Inc. Mark’s latest composition, Marimba Heritage is a mallet ensemble showcase. The work is built on motives of numerous marimba solos and is designed to honor the tradition of solo marimba performance.

Ford has been recognized as a leading percussion educator and his UNT Percussion Ensemble was selected as a winner in the 2009 PAS International Percussion Ensemble Competition. Mark Ford proudly represents Dynasty Percussion, The Zildjian Company, Evans Drum Heads, Latin Percussion and Innovative Percussion Inc. as performing artist and clinician.

For more information on Mark Ford and the UNT Percussion Area, please go to www.music.unt.edu/percussion.

Cowan Civic Center Theatre

Cowan Civic Center is located at 500 E. Elm in Lebanon, MO  65536

(sits at the intersection of Elm and Washington)

For Lebanon area map go to www.lebanonmissouri.org/map.php (click on full map or NE view)

Admission:

$30 all day pass for Competitors

$10 all day pass for spectators

for Group Rates contact Carol Helble at 417-532-6628 X1240

**ALL tickets include the evening concert

(t-shirts available through pre-orders only)

The mission of the Mid-Missouri Percussion Arts Trophy competition is to further the appreciation and development of percussion arts by providing excellent players with the opportunity to compete with other excellent players, and to have their work critiqued by world-class percussion performers. It is also the desire of the MMPAT administration to provide, at each yearly event, a concert given by a major performer.