Ep. 107: Michael Crusoe, timpanist
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Ep. 107: Michael Crusoe, timpanist.
Let's Talk Off The Podium with Tigran Arakelyan.
Michael Crusoe is principal timpanist of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held since 1980. In addition, he also serves as principal timpanist of the Seattle Opera Association and the Mostly Mozart Summer Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center in New York. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Washington, he served as percussion instructor at the Waterloo Music Festival in New Jersey and has taught at Seattle Pacific University and Seattle University. Crusoe can be heard with the Seattle Symphony on the critically acclaimed Delos label recordings directed by Gerard Schwarz.
In this podcast we talk about Michael Crusoe's passion for martial arts and early studies with Bruce Lee's prot\\xe9g\\xe9 Jesse Glover, post retirement involvement in martial arts and continuing collaboration with the Grand Teton Music Festival. He spoke about timpani concertos, life changing moments, work with three different Music Directors of SSO during his tenure as a timpanist. Crusoe also told a number of interesting in-performance stories, diversity in music and much more!
\\xa9 Let's Talk Off The Podium, 2020
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