University of Virginia Associate Professor of Percussion and Principal Timpanist and Percussionist for the Charlottesville Symphony I-Jen Fang stops by [after Pete learns how to say her name at (03:00)] to discuss her recent PASIC 2023 performance for the New Music Research day with Greg Beyer (04:00), her percussion responsibilities at UVA and Charlottesville, the marching band at UVA, and the challenges of recruiting there (12:50), growing up in Taiwan, having artistic parents (who are not in the music field), getting started in piano, and the culture of music there (41:10), studying at Carnegie Mellon University (PA) for undergrad with Tim Adams and performing on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood (53:40), living in Chicago and studying with Michael Burritt for her masters at Northwestern (IL) (01:10:00), doing the doctorate at University of North Texas and her research into the 1986 Marimba Commissions (01:18:45), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, with sections on developing well-rounded percussionists, being an Asian woman in the percussion world, her love and skill at cooking, Anime series, and performing the music of Christopher Deane (01:29:20).
Finishing with a Rave on the movies of Bruce Lee (01:59:00).
I-Jen Fang Links:
I-Jen’s UVA page
I-Jen’s Innovative Percussion page
Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:
Mark Ford in 2023
John Lane in 2023
Eric Willie in 2022
William Moersch in 2019
Jason Baker in 2020
Other Links:
Greg Beyer
Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival
Michael Burritt
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
Shenandoah National Forest
Tim Adams
“Wind in the Bamboo Grove” - Keiko Abe
Ju Percussion Group
She-e Wu
“Yellow After the Rain” - Mitchell Peters
“Time for Marimba” - Minoru Miki
Christopher Deane
Rob Moore
Sandi Rennick
Ed Soph
Ed Smith
“Reflections on the Nature of Water” - Jacob Druckman
“Velocities” - Joseph Schwantner
Leigh Howard Stevens
Keiko Abe
Cynthia Yeh
Momoko Kamiya
Nancy Zeltsman
Top Gun: Maverick trailer
Star Wars: The Clone Wars trailer
Hunter x Hunter Set 1 trailer
Hot Tub Time Machine trailer
UVA Men’s Basketball 2018 and 2019
2017 Charlottesville Protests
“Child of Tree” - John Cage
“The Bones of Chung Tzu” - Christopher Deane
Raves:
Fist of Fury - dojo fight
The Way of the Dragon - fight with Chuck Norris
Enter the Dragon - fight vs. O’Hara