Musicians

Violin
· Brian Lewis, Concertmaster
· Brinna Brinkerhoff
· Aloysia Friedmann
· Jonathan Godfrey
· Andrés González
· Rachel Jordan
· Rasa Kalesnykaite
· Kana Kimura
· Maxine Kuo
· Tammy Linn
· Deborah Tien Price
· Oleg Sulyga
· Amy Thiaville

Viola
· Matt Dane
· Suzanne LeFevre
· Tawnya Popoff
· Lorento Golofeev

Cello
· Richard Belcher
· Julia Cleworth
· Erika Johnson
· Shino Hayashi

Bass
· Sandor Ostlund
· Erik Gronfor

Harp
· Mollie Marcuson

Flute/Piccolo
· Christina Jennings
· Jennifer Keeney

Oboe
· Alecia Lawyer

Clarinet
· Nathan Williams
· Maiko Sasaki

Bassoon
· Kristin Wolfe Jensen
· Daniel Chrisman

Horn
· Danielle Kuhlmann
· Gavin Reed

Trumpet
· Jens Lindemann
· Dan Shipman
· George Chase

Trombone
· Brian Logan

Percussion
· Matthew McClung

Piano
· Kimi Kawashima
· Rodney Waters

Matthew McClung Instrument: Timpani / Percussion Originally from: Crystal Lake, IL Now reside in: Corpus Christi, TX Age: 37 Birthday: January 8 How did you get started? I started playing the piano in grade school.

What do you do when you’re not playing with ROCO? I'm an assistant professor of music at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi.

What are you listening to on your iPod? Lately, Ben Folds Five and Tenacious D.

What did you do this summer? I taught college-aged musicians at a music festival in Hot Springs Arkansas. Then I taught music to grade-school kids at a day-camp at Rice University. Then I flew to Hong Kong to perform with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. The rest of my summer is strictly leisure and practicing, except for when I return home to Illinois to attend my 20th high school reunion.

Personal info: Single but dating the harpist of the San Antonio Symphony.

Question you're asked most often: Of all the instruments I play as a percusisonist, which is my favorite? Answer: Sometimes I sneak out of answering by saying that the nice thing about being a percussionist is that I don't have to choose a favorite. But really, it changes. Lately, the snare drum.

Interests outside music: Movies, books, and making music with my friends.

Links: www.matthewmcclung.com

Education: Bachelors degree (in Materials Engineering) from the University of Cincinnati; Masters degree (percussion performance) from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music; Doctorate of Musical Arts from Rice.

Bio: Dr. Matthew McClung has performed with a wide variety of prestigious ensembles throughout the United States. He has performed with the Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Ballet, the Hawaii Opera Theater, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Hong Kong, Houston, Lexington, San Antonio, Kentucky, Austin, Arkansas, Corpus Christi, Maui, and Honolulu. As a chamber musician, he has performed with Alisa Weilerstein, the Percussion Group Cincinnati, the Tierkreis Percussion Ensemble, So Percussion, Strike 3 Percussion, Musiqa, the Houston Composers Alliance, the San Antonio Chamber Music Society, and others. As a soloist, he has been featured as a soloist with the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, on the ChamberX concert series in Houston, with the TAMU-CC wind ensemble, the New Sousa Band, and with the Shepherd School Percussion Ensemble.

A 2002 recipient of a Presser Award, Dr. McClung spent two months in Ghana, where he studied traditional drumming techniques with master drummers of the Ewe tribe. He also studied gyil (African xylophone) techniques with Kakraba Lobi, who is considered one of the ultimate virtuosi of the instrument. Dr. McClung is currently the Assistant Professor of Percussion at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He is also on the faculty of the Hot Springs Music Festival in Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he works with students from prestigious conservatories around the country. Dr. McClung is also a founding member of Strike 3 Percussion, a trio that has performed for thousands of school children across Texas.