Nathaniel P. Stottlemyer (B.M., The Catholic University of America; additional study at Trinity University), Multi-Percussionist and Educator.
Mr. Stottlemyer is the Director of Bands and Music Department Chair at Brooklyn Park Middle School, Baltimore, MD. There he has instituted the use of traditional North African frame drums and techniques in the general music classroom to facilitate the learning of rhythms. He is a dedicated educator with much experience in culturally and socio-economically diverse populations, including Title I schools. He is an in-demand clinician, having hosted workshops in frame drumming and in orchestral percussion and is a regular facilitator of drum circles, using percussion and rhythm to create a sense of unity, balance, and community among participants. He teaches world and orchestral percussion at The Chesapeake Arts Center in Baltimore, MD and is a percussionist for The Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Ulysses S. James. Mr. Stottlemyer is currently in the process of recording his first solo album in addition to writing a progressive method for drum set and compositions for world percussion.
Mr. Stottlemyer is available for performances, workshops, clinics, drum circle facilitation & private study. View Schedule
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Instruments.
World Percussion (Riq, Tar, Bendir, Doumbek, Djembe, Djun-Djun, Talking Drum, Ashiko, Congas, Bongos, Timbales, Cajon, Udu, Bodhran, and many others), Drumset, Mallets (Marimba, Balafon, Vibraphone, Xylophone, Glockenspiel), and Orchestral Percussion.
Influences.
Mickey Hart (The Grateful Dead, Diga Rhythm Band), Mahmoud Fadl, Hamza El Din, Hossam Ramzy, Babatunde Olatunji, The Musicians of the Nile, Trilok Gurtu, Glen Velez, Zakir Hussein (Tabla Beat Science, Ravi Shankar), Santana, Tito Puente, Giovanni Hidalgo, Poncho Sanchez, The Beatles, Phish, The Doors, Nine Inch Nails, Sepultura, Soulfly, Primus, Dream Theatre, Tool, and the list goes on and on...
-Mickey Hart on Music.