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PERCUSSION SECTION
All Photographs by Katrin Talbot
Musician
profiles are in alphabetical order.
ANTHONY DiSANZA, Principal Percussion
Noteworthy: Degrees from Youngstown State
University and University of Michigan; performed throughout Japan with Keiko Abe
and the Michigan Chamber Players; chamber music recordings on the Denon and
Equilibrium labels.
Oddest practice quarters: Aboard a barge
floating down the Mississippi.
Funniest concert experience: After
dropping a mallet during a waterfront concert, I was forced to simply watch it
roll off the stage and into the river. Somehow, the mallet seemed quite happy as
it drifted down the river.
What your colleagues don't know about
you: I'm a major Star Trek junkie (though I have never attended a Star Trek
convention wearing alien garb).
Recurrent musical fantasy: To
perform with Frank Zappa.
JOHN JUTSUM, Principal Timpani
Noteworthy: B.M. Oberlin 1983; M.M. Juilliard
1986; Principal Timpanist, Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI (Torino, Italy)
1987-92; first call substitute for Jacksonville (FL) Symphony. Currently living
in the Minneapolis area, working as a database administrator.
Oddest
practice quarters: A beach along the Adriatic coast of
Italy.
Funniest concert experience: During a 4th of July
performance of Copland's A Lincoln Portrait in Denver, the then-governor of
Colorado was concert narrator and committed a very bad "Freudian slip." The
orchestra literally missed several beats because we were all doubled over
laughing.
What your colleagues don't know about you: I was born in
Anchorage, Alaska, entered college as a piano major, and speak-admittedly
somewhat rusty-Italian.
RICK MORGAN
Noteworthy: BS in Natural Resource Management
from Ohio State University, minor in Music; I have my own marketing consulting
firm and chair the MSO marketing committee.
Oddest practice
quarters: Ohio State Percussion Ensemble rehearsed in the back of a moving
van.
Funniest concert experience: At a university percussion
ensemble performance, a piece ended with me shooting another player with a blank
gun and dragging him off stage feet first.
Recurrent musical fantasy:
Playing with my three sons in a stadium rock concert.
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