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Percussion
Victor LewisJazz Drums As a child, Victor Lewis studied cello, piano and finally drums, doing his first home town gigs in Omaha, Nebraska at age 15. The youngster was encouraged by such as Buster Williams and Billy Hart to make the move to New York where in 1974 he began a quick ascension to prominence. Victor was the first-call drummer for masters like Joe Farrell, Dexter Gordon, and Hubert Laws and started long-time associations with Woody Shaw, Carla Bley, David Sanborn, Kenny Barron, Bobby Watson, and Stan Getz. One of the leading drummers of our time, Victor also has a second reputation as a dedicated composer and smart bandleader.
Office: Rehearsal 209 | Phone: 732-932-9302 
Marcus RhotenBorn in 1978 in Hanover, Germany, Mr. Rhoten attended the College of Arts in Berlin, and continued his studies as an apprentice with the National Opera Orchestra Mannheim. Subsequently, he was awarded a stipend for the Academy of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra in Munich, and in 2002 became principal timpanist of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra under Lorin Maazel. He has also worked with conductors Mariss Jansons, Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser-Möst, Thomas Daussgard, Paavo Järvi, and Mstislav Rostropovich, among others. Mr. Rhoten has also performed with the Hessen Radio Symphony Orchestra; Zurich Opera Orchestra; North German Radio Philharmonic; Lower Saxony State Opera Orchestra; and Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Markus Rhoten joined the New York Philharmonic as Principal Timpani in September 2006. Prior to this appointment he was the principal timpanist of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, led by Eliahu Inbal.
Joseph TompkinsPercussion Joseph Tompkins has performed with most of the major orchestras in the New York City area, including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the New Jersey Symphony and the American Symphony. In the realm of new music he has performed with Speculum Musicae and Sequitur, and as a member of the Timetable percussion trio has been involved in a number of commissions and performances of new works for percussion. Tompkins has studied latin percussion at the Boys Harbor Conservatory and currently performs in the Lion King on Broadway. His works for percussion have been performed in Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom, and throughout the United States. In 2002 he was asked to compose a trio for the New York Philharmonic's percussion section, which was performed in April of that year. He and his wife, violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins, recently premiered a Duo For Violin and Percussion written for them by German composer Siegfried Matthus.
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