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Music at Noon Concert Series presents alumni Joe Porter with Joel Goodfellow
March 16, 2021 | 12:15 pm MST
uLethbridge Online Presentation

Please reserve your pass at: uleth.ca/tickets. Registration is required as we need to provide you with secure access information prior to the start of the event.

Joe Porter (MMus '13; BMus '11) will be playing a mix of classical, world, and contemporary music including: choral masterpieces arranged for marimba, Persian drumming, a drumset solo inspired by world music, and a mix of piano/percussion duets with Joel Goodfellow (BMus '19).

Joe Porter is a Canadian percussionist, teacher, and composer. He teaches at the University of Lethbridge and U of L Music Conservatory, where he directs many ensembles, world drumming classes, workshops, and lessons. Joe is the recipient of the Global Music Awards, Gold Medal Prize for Creativity and Originality, and has been a winner in multiple concerto and recording competitions. He was recently nominated for the Western Canadian Awards Instrumental Artist of the Year.

Joe is an active international clinician and has given masterclasses and clinics around the world. Recent workshops have included: Gu Dong-Guo Yin International Percussion Festival and Shenyang International Percussion Festival in China, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Hong Kong Baptist University, Royal College of Music and Birmingham Conservatoire in England, University of Hawaii, and the PAS China, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Iowa & Alberta Chapters Days of Percussion. He is the author of three method books: Six-Mallet Technique Diversified, a comprehensive book and DVD to learn six-mallet marimba technique, The Art of Marimba with Six Mallets, a book dedicated to expanding the repertoire for marimba, and The Journey To Groove, a comprehensive method for developing the drum set musician.

As an active composer and performer, Joe has written multiple percussion concertos, many solos, duets and ensemble pieces. He has performed in Britain, Holland, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, and throughout the US and Canada. Joe has been a concerto soloist with orchestras in the US and Canada and a featured soloist with percussion ensembles around the world. In 2014, Joe was featured in the PASIC International Showcase Concert. In 2016, he was chosen from the world’s top percussionists to be in the World Percussion Group where he toured across the US giving clinics, masterclasses, concerts and a showcase concert at PASIC 2016. Joe has released three albums which have been aired on radio stations in North America and Europe. Joe is a Ludwig-Musser, Salyers Percussion, Dream Cymbals & Gongs and Grover Pro Percussion artist.

For more information visit Joe's website