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📍Flagstaff, Arizona

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Looking forward to hanging at NAU this weekend, sharing some recent recordings, talking music production concepts, and why percussionists often make great record producers.

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An exciting week ahead as summer events kick off!☀️🎉

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Bravo to the NAU Symphony Orchestra for a remarkable final concert of the season and thank you all for a wonderful first year at NAU!! 🥰🙏🎶

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I am pleased to announce that, following a very competitive and abundantly skillful audition from all whom applied, Corben Short will be the soloist for the October premiere of my Xylophone Concertino!!! Congratulations to @corbiepoo and thank you dearly @nau_percussion for having such an outstanding attitude to premiering new music!!!

#xylophone #percussion #newmusic #composition #band

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🌟 RE-SCHEDULED TO MAY 24 @ 12PM!! 🌟

Feel the rhythm in Downtown Flagstaff! 🥁

FREE, family-friendly, and full of energy, join the @nau_percussion ensemble this Sunday, May 24th at 12pm in Heritage Square for an exciting end-of-semester concert filled with drumming, singing, and dancing!

From Brazil to Ghana, Puerto Rico to Cuba, experience vibrant traditions like samba, bomba, and rumba, music that invites you to move, clap, and be part of the rhythm while enjoying a perfect spring day downtown! 🎶

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Got to cross off an item from my bucket list last Friday when I performed Marimba Spiritual at the NAU Percussion Ensemble Concert! Thank you to @mudezami, @jacob_martinez2027 and @liesa_shep27 for performing with me and thank you to @abbyplaysperc for your guidance throughout me learning this piece and our rehearsals.

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Bravo to NAU Symphony Orchestra and Opera for a fantastic final performance of Hänsel & Gretel. It was a long month of hard work that absolutely paid off. 👏👏

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🥁 2026 Day of Percussion, presented by the AZ Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Glendale Community College

It was great to see such a strong turnout of students, educators, and families, and to connect with our percussion community throughout the day.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the solo & ensemble festival, to our festival winners, and to our featured showcase performers!

Drum-set solo: Sachin Pradeep (Basis Chandler)
Middle school solo: Sequoia Foust (Summit Academy)
High school solo: Isaak Bjork (Mesa High School)
Undergraduate solo: Zeke Mendoza (UA) and Liesa Shepherd (NAU)
Graduate solo: Seth Ploeckelman (NAU) and Nathan Hossenlopp (ASU)
High school ensemble: Mountain Ridge HS, director Whitney Hansen
University ensemble: NAU, director Abby Fisher

Showcase performers: ASU duo (@chopp_duo), NAU Percussion Quartet, UA Percussion Quintet, Phoenix College Pan Groove

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Thank you to everyone who made AZ DoP a success, especially:
Host: Dr. Doug Nottingham at Glendale Community College and his student volunteers

Our incredible clinicians:
Escape Ten (Dr. Andrea Venet and Dr. Annie Stevens) and Joe Goglia

Solo & Ensemble Festival Adjudicators:
Dr. Andrea Venet, Dr. Annie Stevens, Dr. Michael Compitello, Dr. Morris Palter, Joe Goglia, Matt Prendergast, and Dr. Matthew Timman

Chapter Board Members:
President: Dr. Abby Fisher
Vice President: Nathan Smith
Treasurer: Mickey Price
Secretary: Dr. Daniel Barsetti-Nerland

Our Sponsors:
@percussivearts
@malletechofficial
@marimbaone
@blackswamppercussion
@remopercussion
@dreamcymbals
@meinlpercussion

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‼️Studio V.S Studio‼️ The NAU Percussion and NAU Clarinet Studios had a great time last night at the bowling alley!

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🥁I had a fun few days at Arizona State University hanging out with @comp.y.tello @arizonastateperc and @asuwindbands !

Thanks to ASU percussion prof Dr. Mike Compitello for inviting me to perform together, and to work with his students in lessons and studio class, and to Dr. Jamal Duncan for programming “Run to the Light” by Ivan Trevino!

It was great to see AZ percussion friends- thanks for attending the concert, along with a few of my @nau_percussion students who made the trip!

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Looking forward to performing “Run to the Light” by @ivan.drums next week with @arizonastateperc prof Dr. Mike Compitello and the ASU Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Jamal Duncan!

ASU Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble: “State 48” Concert, featuring Arizona composers and performers
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 at 7:30pm
ASU Gammage

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NNSF26 Faculty: Abby Fisher!

Abby Fisher is a percussionist and educator, focused on performing and supporting continued growth of new music, with expertise in contemporary and classical percussion. National and international performances include: Stony Brook University’s TEDx, Transplanted Roots Percussion Symposium, New Music Gathering, Big Ears Festival, Percussive Arts Society International Convention, One World Trade Center, Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico), and at universities around the US. Abby is a co-founder of the percussion duo Fisher/Lau Project with Matthew Lau, and she regularly collaborates with composers and musicians on new works. In February 2025, she released her debut solo album 100 works in resonant aluminum by D. Edward Davis through CMNTX records.

Abby is a dedicated educator and serves as the Steven Hemphill Endowed Professor of Percussion, Assistant Professor of Percussion, and Director of Percussion Studies at Northern Arizona University. She currently serves as the President of the Arizona Percussive Arts Society chapter, and as a co-chair for the Percussive Arts Society Percussion Ensemble Committee. She is a member of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, NAU’s premier contemporary music group Ensemble Flageolet, and a regular performer and board member of the Interference Series, a non-profit Flagstaﬀ-based organization dedicated to presenting experimental music.

Abby is supported by Marimba One, Black Swamp Percussion, Vic Firth, and Zildjian.

#newmusic #contemporarymusic #summerfestival #musicperformance #composition #musictechnology

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