Marc Anderson
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Marc Anderson is an instrumentalist instrumentalist, composer, record producer, and music educator living in the Twin Cities. He has recorded on with many of GIA’s most popular artists, including Marty Haugen, Gary Daigle, David Haas and Donna Peña. He has also recorded and performed with many great artists in the world of secular music including Peter Ostroushko, Steve Tibbetts, Max Roach, Greg Brown, Don Cherry, Robert Fripp, Altan, and Taj Mahal. Anderson has two solo recordings, Time Fish and Ruby.
Anderson studied traditional drumming in Ghana, China, and Brazil. He has also studied drumming styles from India, the Middle East, and Haiti with teachers in the U.S. Anderson teaches drumming and anthropology at Hamline University in St. Paul. He also leads drum groups in a number of elementary and junior high schools in the Twin City area.
In addition, Anderson is an expert clinician and has conducted seminars, teacher trainings, and master classes for fifteen years.
Workshops
Using Percussion Instruments in Worship
In this clinic we will look at four to six pieces of music by GIA composers and discuss how they might be performed by parish percussionists. In each case, we will look at options based on the number of percussionists involved, instrumental resources, and specific rhythms.
The clinic will emphasize hands-on experience along with analysis and discussion. The music chosen will cover a variety of musical styles used throughout the church year. We will look at rhythms and techniques for conga drums, djembes, dumbeks, shakers, tambourines, triangle, and bodhran.
Drum Circles
This clinic will focus on ways to establish a drum circle in a Christian community. We will look at techniques for specific instruments, including conga drum, djembe, dumbek, frame drums, and hand percussion instruments. We will also learn some specific rhythms and discuss ways to develop new rhythms in the drum circle context. There will also be some discussion on the usefulness and community-building power of the drum circle.