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MICHAEL BURRITT (b. 1962)

Michael Burritt is currently Professor and Director of Percussion Studies in the School of Music at Northwestern University. He has developed a program of international distinction. Mike received his Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees, as well as the prestigious Performers Certificate from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. His teachers have included John Beck, Gordon Stout, Paul Yancich and Herbert Flower.

Mike has become one of the World's leading percussion soloists and pedagogues, specializing in the areas of marimba and solo percussion. He is in frequent demand performing concert tours and master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and Canada. Mike has been soloist with the Dallas Wind Symphony, Omaha Symphony, Chautauqua Festival Orchestra, Ju Percussion Group (Taiwan), Percussion Art Quartet (Germany), Amores Percussion Group (Spain), Peaux (Sweden) and the Tempus Fugit Percussion Ensemble of Pittsburgh, PA. Mike has two solo recordings - Perpetual, and Shadow Chasers and released his third this past Spring 2004 entitled Waking Dreams on the Resonator Records label. All the recordings are comprised of Mike's original compositions as well as works written expressly for him. He has been a featured artist at seven Percussive Arts Society International Conventions. In 1992 he presented his New York solo debut in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and in 1998 performed his London debut in the Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Mike is also active as a composer, having written two books of etudes as well as numerous solo and chamber works for marimba and percussion. He is published with Ludwig Music, C. Alan Publications, and Keyboard Percussion Publications. Mike has been a member of the Percussive Arts Society Board of Directors, and is a contributing editor for Percussive Notes Magazine and is the chairman of the PAS Keyboard Committee.

WORKS

Percussion
Etude No. 4 (solo marimba)
Etude No. 5 (solo marimba)
Etude No. 6 (solo marimba)
Shadow Chaser (solo marimba)
Shadow Chasers (solo marimba w/ percussion quartet)
Timeless (solo marimba w/ percussion trio)