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The Oberlin Percussion Group
 OPG rehearses in Warner Concert Hall Photo by Al Fuchs |
The Oberlin Percussion Group [OPG], an ensemble of student percussion majors at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, is conducted by Professor of Percussion Michael Rosen and was founded by him in 1972. Premiering new works is a major objective of the group; they have commissioned more than 12 compositions by composers such as Ed Miller, Richard Hoffman, Dary John Mizelle, Randy Coleman and Michael Daugherty.
Rosen welcomes and encourages composers to send scores for performance in future concerts by the OPG.
The OPG has also performed the American premieres of several works by Japanese and European composers, including the first American performance of Pleides by Iannis Xenakis, Prelude by Riccardo Malipiero, Con Luigi Dallapiccola by Luigi Nono and Voûtes by Michaël Levinas. An extensive collection of fine exotic and conventional Western percussion instruments helps make such performances possible.
The OPG rehearses a minimum of four hours per week. In 1984, they won the Percussion Ensemble Contest, sponsored by the Percussive Arts Society [PAS], and they performed Persephassa at its International Convention in Washington, D.C. The ensemble was again featured at a PAS convention in 1990. They have made several recordings for the Opus One, Lumina and CRI labels.
The current members
of the OPG are:
o Hudie Broughton, a junior from Duluth, Minn.,
o Reagan Fletcher, a senior from Canadaigua, N. Y.,
o Scott Forth, a senior from Buffalo, N. Y.,
o Tim McKay, a sophomore from Fairfax, Va.,
o Adam Sliwinski, a senior from Hudson, Ohio, and
o John Tarcza, a senior from Alexandria, Va.
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