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| Patrick Roulet |
He has performed with orchestras and chamber groups throughout the United States including the Seattle Chamber Players, the Juniper Chamber Music Festival, the American Sinfonietta and the Cascade Festival. As the principal timpanist of the Bellingham Festival of Music, he has frequently been heard on NPR’s Performance Today. His performance of the Concerto for Percussion by Joseph Schwantner with the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra was praised by the Bellingham Herald as “utterly in control and inspiring.” Dr. Roulet’s scholarly work reflects his many interests within the broad field of percussion including jazz and world music. His research on the life and music of jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson was selected for presentation at the Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention and publication in Percussive Notes. In 2006, he received a grant to study traditional drumming and xylophone techniques and was invited to give a colloquium on jazz history at the University of Ghana in Accra. His experience as a lecturer in American popular music at the University of Washington, Western Washington University, and Southern Utah University led to an invitation from Oxford University Press to write the instructor resources for the textbook, American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3 by Chris Waterman and Larry Starr in 2006. Dr. Roulet received degrees in percussion performance from the University of Washington (DMA), Boston University (MM), and the University of Michigan (BM). His teachers have included: Michael Crusoe, Tom Collier, Tom Gauger, Charles Smith, Salvatore Rabbio, Michael Udow, Larry Kaptain, Ken Harbison, Garwood Whaley and Randall Eyles. During the summer, he teaches percussion and steel drums at the New England Music Camp in Sidney, Maine. Office: CA 4056 |
A native of Northern Virginia, Patrick Roulet brings a wealth of experience as a percussion artist and educator to Towson University. His diverse musical background has led him to collaborate with a wide range of musicians and ensembles from the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and the Pacific Rims Percussion Quartet, to the Dmitri Pokrovsky Russian Folk Ensemble, and Indian percussion virtuoso, Sandip Burman.