Chuck Wilson is an experienced music educator, with over a decade of public school experience in Pennsylvania. In addition to his Concert Bands, Wind Ensemble, and Jazz Band, Chuck also teaches beginning guitar and runs an innovative world music group (POW-WOW) consisting of "Percussion Of the World" (African percussion) and "Winds Of the World" (Australian didgeridoo, Native American flutes).
Chuck received his Bachelor of Music in Education from Ithaca College, and also earned a Master of Science in Education from Wilkes University.
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| Jamie Orfanella has been a professional musician and music educator for over 20 years with a Bachelor Degree in Music Education for the University of North Texas. He is currently teaching at Valley View High School in Archbald, PA and is a member of the jazz faculty at the Performing Arts Institute at Wyoming Seminary.
As an active freelance trumpet player, Jamie performs in a wide variety of styles from jazz to rock to classical. He is currently studying traditional Japanese shakuhachi flute under Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin at the Ki Sui An dojo. Jamie is also half of the duo "Tribal Waves". Along with drummer Matt Scola, the duo combines a variety of world wind instruments- including didgeridoos, various flutes and jaw harps, with percussion ranging from drum set to Tibetian singing bowls to create an improvisational ambient trance experience.
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| William Thoren is a performer and crafter from souther california who has dedicated his focus on pioneering new techniques and new types of instruments for modern didgeridoo playing. In 2008 he developed a technique he calls “the Low Note”. It enables a player to play pitches normally only reachable with extremely long didgeridoos on very short didgeridoos.The basic level of this technique involves dropping the fundamental drone or pitch of a didgeridoo an entire octave below what it normally is. This is similar to playing a pedal tone on a tuba. So for example, a high G didgeridoo around 3-4 feet in length can be dropped down to a low G note, which would normally require a didgeridoo around 8-12 feet in size(depending on the taper) to play.
Most recently William has developed the technique further to play anywhere from three to seven different drone notes on a single didgeridoo. This is possible due to a modified type of didgeridoo he has developed specifically for this technique.
http://www.wetdidgeridoo.com/WilliamThoren/Welcome.html
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Kahna has been playing flute for 15 years. In 2008 she graduated from Mansfield University with a Bachelor Degree in Music Education. For the past two years she has been a substitute teacher for the Mountain View, Blue Ridge, and Forest City school districts, gaining experience teaching a variety of instruments. She was first introduced to the ocarina by Chuck Wilson, and has been enjoying this wonderful instrument ever since.
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Jacob Cole started his journey into rhythm at age 7 when he got his 1st drum-set. He is now 27 and has graduated from Berklee College of Music, where he studied drum-set and world percussion with Jamey Haddad. Jacob also was the tabla player in the world music ensemble for his last 2 years at Berklee. He has also studied tabla with Ustad Zakir Hussain, and currently studies traditional tabla in his home town of Clarks Summit PA. Some other teachers he has studied with include; Glen Velez -frame drum, Billy Martin-drums, Adam Deitch-drums, Mike Mangini-drums, Mark Walker-drums, Skip Hadden-drums, and childhood teacher Marko Marcinko-drums.
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Todd is better known as Ubizmo on Youtube, where he has posted videos since taking up the ocarina in September, 2008. He started playing the saxophone at age 10, and since then has always played some wind instrument or other: flute, recorder, or tin whistle. His musical interests are wide-ranging, from jazz and blues to New Age. He takes the view that, although the ocarina is an instrument of limited range, it's musical potential is unlimited.
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A one-man Didgeridoo orchestra is perhaps the best way of describing the extraordinary music of phenomenal Didgeridoo player Ondrej Smeykal. His highly original style of play is the result of a life completely devoted to his instrument. For well over a decade and with ever increasing intensity, Ondrej has been developing and redefining his own unique approach to the Didgeridoo
His predominant use of unusually long Didges and “extensions” of up to 4 metres in length, enable him to play incredibly deep tones and to produce a much wider range of sounds and overtones than are possible on regular didgeridoos. Each composition, or song, as he refers to it, is very different in style, ranging from break-beat and organic Didgeridoo techno, to trance, ambient and anywhere in between.
http://www.smeykal.com/eng/
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