High Plains Percussion Academy

High Plains Percussion Academy is the first concerted long-term effort at establishing a presence of basic percussion education for middle school and high school students in the High Plains region. Much of the High Plains region is extremely lacking in music education for percussionists (particularly in the marching arts), and HPPA aims to fill that void.

While geared primarily towards the marching arts community, HPPA is expanding to encompass all areas of percussion education: marching, concert, small ensembles, and beyond.

Originally targeted at Garden City and the southwest Kansas region, HPPA now aims to serve an area encompassing parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico, and will be growing to support dozens of students and their talents in 2023.