About this user
Brian Gardiner (percussionist/timpanist) is a versatile performer, having performed throughout the U.S.A. and Canada with professional orchestras, rock bands, dance and choral groups, as well as chamber ensembles. He holds a section percussion position with the Vancouver (WA) Symphony Orchestra. He also currently freelances in Portland, Oregon, where he has performed with the Oregon Symphony, the Third Angle New Music Ensemble, Oregon Ballet Theatre, the Portland Columbia Symphony, and the Portland Gay Mens Chorus. He has performed throughout the United States and under the batons of such conductors as Carlos Kalmar, Roberto Abbado, David Robertson, Michael Stern, Cliff Colnot, David Effron, Murry Sidlin, Uri Mayer, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, among others.
As a supporter of new music, Gardiner has performed with Indiana Universitys New Music Ensemble, the Oregon Marimba Quartet, and the Oregon Percussion Ensemble. He also co-founded the APEX Percussion duo.
As an educator, he currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Music at Marylhurst University in Lake Oswego, Oregon, as well as at Portland Community College (Rock Creek campus) in Portland, Oregon. He also teaches percussion at Beaverton High School in Beaverton, Oregon. Brian has taught percussion camps and master classes at schools in Indiana, Kansas, and Oregon, and is an invited clinician at public schools and universities. Brian holds a Master of Music degree in Percussion Performance, with honors, from the University of Oregon, under the guidance of Professor Charles Dowd. He is currently pursuing his Doctor of Music degree (ABD) in Percussion Performance at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the guidance of Professors John Tafoya, Kevin Bobo, and Steve Houghton. He has also studied with retired Indiana University professors Anthony Cirone and Gerald Carlyss. As a Doctoral student at Indiana University he was awarded a highly sought after Associate Instructor position in the percussion department.
Brian Gardiner endorses Encore Mallets.
