Percussion - Texas Toot

Photo of Peter Maund with percussion instruments

A native of San Francisco, Peter Maund studied percussion at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and music, folklore and ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley. A founding member of Ensemble Alcatraz and Alasdair Fraser’s Skyedance, he has performed with early and contemporary music ensembles including Anonymous 4, Chanticleer, El Mundo, and many others.

He has been a featured performer and clinician at festivals throughout Europe, the Americas, and in the Middle East. Maund is the author of “Percussion” in A Performers Guide to Medieval Music, Indiana University Press, 2000. He has served on the faculty of UC Berkeley as well as in workshops sponsored by Amherst Early Music, the San Francisco Early Music Society, the American Recorder Society and the American Orff-Schulwerk Association. Described by the Glasgow Herald as “the most considerate and imaginative of percussionists,” Peter Maund can be heard on over 50 recordings.

Dan Meyers

Loud band, Percussion, Recorder

A versatile multi-instrumentalist based in Boston, Dan Meyers is a flexible and enthusiastic performer of both classical and folk music; his credits range from premieres of contemporary chamber music, to headlining a concert series in honor of Pete Seeger at the Newport Folk Festival, to playing Renaissance instruments on Broadway for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Company.

He is a founding member of the early music/folk crossover group Seven Times Salt, and in recent seasons he has performed with the The Folger Consort, The Newberry Consort, Hesperus, Severall Friends, Musica Maestrale, Dünya, The Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Early Music New York, Amherst Early Music, The 21st Century Consort, and In Stile Moderno. He has made concert and theatrical appearances in NYC, Washington DC, Portland, Santa Fe, and of course in Texas, where he recently taught for the inaugural Early Music Latin America Festival at UTEP.

Dan enjoys playing traditional Irish music with the bands Ulster Landing and Ishna, as well as eclectic fusion from around the Mediterranean with the US/Italy-based group Zafarán. As an educator, he has taught historical wind instruments for the Five Colleges Early Music Program in Massachusetts, at Tufts University, and at festivals and workshops around the US.
www.danmeyersmusic.com