In addition to musical performances, the Graduate Percussion Group seeks opportunities to engage with the communities in and around Newark, Delaware. This ensemble has participated in many projects including:
2025
- Performances
- University of Delaware High School Band Day Clinic
- Artist Collage Concert at University of Delaware Interactive Percussion Seminar
- “All Things Together” Benefit Concert at Nemours Children Hospital
- Recording Projects
- Jing Fling by Gene Koshinski
- Watercolor Sun by Ivan Trevino
- Extremes by Jason Treuting
- Bubblegum Palace by Ben Hausman
- Made in America by William Russell
- Quartet coaching from Professor Ben Toth (Hartt School of Music)
- Percussion quartet workshop with composer Mark Hagerty
2024
- High School tours at Middletown, Cape Henlopen, and Odessa
- Performed at “Music on the Patio” hosted by University of Delaware
- Recording session at Parkville Sounds with the Steve Weiss media team
- Finalist of the PASIC 2023 Chamber Competition
2023
- Organized and facilitated intensive workshops which included the study of traditional Chinese Percussion with Jianpeng Feng (master teacher from Beijing)
- Organized a food drive during the winter months called “Beets, Beats, and Eats”. This project culminated in a concert dedicated to fighting food insecurity and donations were delivered to the campus community service “Blue Hen Bounty”.
- Commissioned, premiered, and recorded two new works titled Rauschen by New York composer Lila Meretzky.
- Commissioned, premiered, and recorded two new works titled Everything I thought I Wanted by Philadelphia composer Robert Maggio
- Winner of the PASIC 2021 Chamber Competition
