Eastman School of Music

Musical Study: Percussion

  • Peter Zlotnick

    Peter Zlotnick

    Peter Zlotnick is the Principal Timpanist for the Greensboro Symphony and the Winston-Salem Symphony. He is also Principal Timpanist for the Salisbury Symphony and substitutes on timpani with the North Carolina Symphony and the Charlotte Symphony. Throughout the year, Peter is Education Director and Youth Orchestra Music Director with the Greensboro Symphony, and teaches percussion…

  • Bennett Coughlin

    Bennett Coughlin

    Bennett Coughlin is a percussionist and music educator based in the Greater Syracuse–Auburn area of New York. He currently serves as a music teacher in the Auburn Enlarged City School District and holds multiple leadership roles with the Auburn Vanguard Marching Band, including Percussion Caption Head, Music Coordinator, and Music Arranger/Composer. He is also the…

  • Adam Green

    Adam Green

    Adam Green is an arts administrator and percussionist. His passion is finding meaningful ways to connect people to the arts. As a former member of the Air Force Band in Washington, D.C., Adam managed the Concert Band’s national tours and marketing teams developing outreach products as they traveled across the country. In 2015 and 2023,…

  • Sean Connors

    Sean Connors

    Sean Connors is an Ensemble Member and Technical Director of Third Coast Percussion. He has performed with Amphion Percussion, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, eighth blackbird, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Signal, and Metropolis Ensemble, and he was the percussionist for 2 summers with the prestigious Aspen Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble. As an educator, Sean served…

  • Peter Ferry

    Peter Ferry

    Acclaimed as “the ingenious percussionist Peter Ferry,” (Chicago Sun-Times), Peter Ferry is a young American percussion soloist re-imagining classical performances around the world through contemporary repertoire projects and innovative artistic collaborations. An active concerto soloist, Ferry has championed the percussion concerti of Joe Duddell, Emmanuel Sejourne, Michael Torke, Ney Rosauro, and Jacob ter Veldhuis and…

  • Darren Lin

    Darren Lin

    1st Lieutenant Darren Y. Lin joined “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in July 2019 as a percussionist. He was appointed Assistant Director in July 2021 and commissioned to his current rank in January 2022. 1st Lt. Lin is a 2009 graduate of Hershey High School in Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor’s degree in…