Dr. Glenn Schaft
Professor
Dana School of Music & University Theatre
Bliss Hall 2234
phone: (330) 518-4812
Bio
Glenn Schaft is a percussionist, drummer, and educator.
Glenn Schaft (DMA) is Professor of Music and Director of Drumset and Percussion Studies at Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music in Youngstown, Ohio where he coordinates the percussion faculty and curriculum, teaches applied percussion lesson, and directs the Percussion Ensemble. He is artist in-residence with YSU’s Dana Ensemble, a faculty chamber music collective who perform eclectic contemporary music. Glenn is also the co-founder and faculty advisor of the Youngstown Percussion Collective, a YSU student organization.
Mr. Schaft earned the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana majoring in percussion performance and literature with Tom Siwe and minoring in ethnomusicology, the Master of Arts from Eastern Illinois University majoring in music performance with Johnny Lee Lane, and the Bachelor of Music from the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio majoring in music performance with George Kiteley. Glenn pursued post-doctoral studies and served as a graduate assistant/manager of the New Music Associates at Cleveland State University and studied contemporary music with Edwin London. Glenn has studied with Tom Freer and Jay Burnham of the Cleveland Orchestra, drumset with John Riley, Lewis Nash, John Hollenbeck, and Harold Damas, Afro-Cuban percussion with Roberto Vizcaino, Fermin Nani, and Santiago Nani at the National School of the Arts in Havana, Cuba through an Ohio Arts Council Grant, with Giovanni Hidalgo, Horacio Hernandez, Glen Velez, Jamie Haddad, and Trichi Sankaran at the Berklee College of Music World Percussion Festival, and drum circle facilitation with Christine Stevens at the Remo Health Rhythms Workshop.Glenn earned the D.M.A. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M.A. at Eastern Illinois University, B.M. at Baldwin Wallace University, completed post-doctoral studies at Cleveland State University, Berklee School of Music World Percussion Festival, and Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana, Cuba.
Glenn is an artist endorser with Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth sticks & mallets, Remo drumheads & world percussion, and educational consultant with Black Swamp Percussion, and an active member of the Percussive Arts Society, serving on the Drumset Committee and
A longstanding member of the Percussive Arts Society, the premiere percussion organization in the world, Glenn serves on the Drumset Committee, and previously the University Pedagogy Committee, Membership Committee, PASIC Planning Committee. Glenn has presented lectures, panel discussions, and performed at PAS international conventions (PASIC) throughout the United States. Glenn is also a member of the Ohio Music Education Association where he has presented lectures, clinics, and concerts at numerous state Professional Development Conferences.
Glenn’s performance credits include Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou China, “1940's Radio Hour Show” 25-state tour, Cleveland Chamber Symphony at Harvard University, Youngstown Percussion Collective with John Hollenbeck at the Whitney Museum of American Art in N.Y.C., and BATTU world percussion group - "Artists In Residence" at Baldwin-Wallace University. His recording credits include the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Air Force Band of Mid-America, Youngstown Percussion Collective, and Dave Morgan’s concerto "Reactions for Drumset and Wind Ensemble" with the Youngstown State University Wind Ensemble on Made In Youngstown. Additional performance credits include the American Jazz Orchestra, Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Branford Marsalis, Paquito D’Rivera, Sean Jones, Dan Wilson, Peter Bernstein, Chuck Berry, Alison Krauss, Robert Lockwood Jr., Women of the Phantom, Billy Porter, Chita Rivera, Trichy Sankaran, The Texas Tenors, Engelbert Humperdink, Dance Theater of Harlem, Cleveland Dance Collective, Colorado Music Festival, Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival, Pittsburgh Symphony Percussion Section, Cleveland Ballet, Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Opera, Robert Page Singers, Akron Symphony, Youngstown Symphony, and conductors Anton Coppola, Gunther Schuller, Edwin London, and Peter Schickele a.k.a. P.D.Q. Bach.
Glenn's recording of Dave Morgan concerto "Reactions 2017 for Drumset and Wind Ensemble" with the Youngstown State University Wind Ensemble appears on the 2019 disc Made In Youngstown. Glenn recorded for Dave Morgan's large jazz ensemble project Blue Is More Than A Color, which was released in 2019. Glenn has recorded and served as executive producer with the Youngstown Percussion Collective, and recorded with Dave Morgan, Ron Coulter, John Hollenbeck, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Scott Wyatt, Amanda Powell, Steve Cipriano, Joe Augustine, Dominic Reto, Kent Engelhardt, United States Air Force Band of Mid-America, Youngstown State University Wind Ensemble, Ludwig Masters Publications, and myriad jingles.
Glenn’s university teaching credits include Youngstown State University, Eastern Illinois University, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Parkland College, Baldwin-Wallace University, University of Minnesota Duluth, Concordia College, Minnesota State University Moorhead, North Dakota State University, and Cuyahoga Community College.
As a guest artist Glenn has presented concerts, clinics, masterclasses, and lectures at the University of Michigan, Indiana University, University of Colorado Boulder, Purdue University, Eastern Illinois University, University of Akron, Ashland University, Kent State University, Kent State University Stark Campus, Southern Illinois University, Slippery Rock University, Denison University, Casper College, Ohio Music Education Association Professional Development Conferences, and the Interlochen School of the Arts. He has adjudicated State Solo and Ensemble Events and Collegiate and High School Jazz Festivals throughout the Midwest and has taught at the Youngstown State University Summer Music Camps, United States Percussion Camp at Eastern Illinois University, Illinois Summer Youth Music Camp at the University of Illinois, Richland Academy Summer Jazz Camp in Mansfield Ohio, and the Baldwin Wallace University Summer Music Clinic.
Glenn was raised in Berea, Ohio near Cleveland and lives in Poland, Ohio with his wife Sara - a violinist, and their twins Lewis and Karl.
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Glenn Schaft is Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at Youngstown State University, where he has served since 1996. He teaches applied percussion, directs the Percussion Ensemble, is advisor/co-founder of the Youngstown Percussion Collective, and performs with the YSU Faculty Jazz Group, with whom he twice toured China, performing and teaching at acclaimed conservatories in Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou. Glenn is an artist endorser with the Zildjian cymbal company, Vic Firth sticks and mallets, Remo drumheads and world percussion, and an educational consultant with Black Swamp Percussion.
His symphonic/contemporary music credits include conductors–Giora Bernstein, Jeffrey Siegel, Anton Coppola, Edwin London, Gunther Schuller, Paul Martin Zonn, Peter Schickele/P.D.Q. Bach; composers–Michael Colgrass, Michael Daugherty, David Gillingham, Karel Husa, Libby Larsen, Bernard Rands, Augusta Read Thomas, Joan Tower; and myriad ensembles–Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival, "Artist In Residence" at Baldwin Wallace University with the percussion group BATTU, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Cleveland Ballet, Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Opera, Pittsburgh Symphony Percussion Section, Robert Page Singers, Akron Symphony, Richmond (IN) Symphony, Springfield (IL) Symphony, Youngstown Symphony, Duluth-Superior Symphony, Champaign-Urbana Symphony, Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra, Dance Theater of Harlem, and Cleveland Dance Collective.
Glenn's drumset/world music credits include Broadway artists–Billy Porter, Raul Esparza, Women of the Phantom, Chita Rivera, Donna Theodore, Will and Anthony Nunziata, 1940's Radio Hour Show US Tour; bluegrass artists–Alison Krauss, Andrea Zonn; pop vocal artists–The Texas Tenors, Engelbert Humperdink, Five By Design, The Four Lads, The Four Aces; blues artists–Robert Lockwood Jr. and Steve Cipriano; rock artists Chuck Berry, Stewart Copleland, Victor Krauss; Afro-Cuban artists–Reynaldo Gonzales, Ruben Alvarez, Michael Spiro; big bands–Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Ernie Krivda Big Band, American Jazz Orchestra, Larry Elgart Band, Glenn Miller Band; south Indian percussionist Trichy Sankaran; jazz artists–Peter Bernstein, Paquito D'Rivera, Nick Brignola, Dave Stryker, Chip Stephens, Jim McNeely, Tony Leonardi, Todd Coolman, Randy Johnston, Sean Jones, Mike Kocour, Hank Marr, Alan Vizzutti, Marvin Stamm, Ben Monder, Clifford Barnes, Theron Brown, Alton Merrell, Phil DeGreg, Howie Smith, John Fedchock, Dominick Farinachhi, Kent Engelhardt, and Jack Shantz.
Glenn has recorded with the Youngstown Percussion Collective, Dave Morgan, Ron Coulter, John Hollenbeck, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Scott Wyatt, Amanda Powell, Air Force Band of Mid-American, Youngstown State University Wind Ensemble, Ludwig Master Publications, and myriad jingles.
Glenn has appeared as performer, lecturer, and panelist at Percussive Arts Society International Conventions throughout the United States and served on the PAS Drumset, University Pedagogy, and PASIC Planning Committees. He has presented clinics, masterclasses and lectures at the Interlochen School of the Arts and universities such as Michigan, Indiana, Purdue, Eastern Illinois, Akron, Kent State, Southern Illinois, Slippery Rock, and Denison. His summer camp experience includes the United States Percussion Camp, Baldwin Wallace Summer Music Camp, and Illinois Summer Youth Music Camps. His university teaching credits include Eastern Illinois University, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Parkland College, Baldwin Wallace University, University of Minnesota Duluth, Concordia College, Minnesota State University Moorhead, North Dakota State University, and Cuyahoga Community College.
Glenn earned three performance degrees; DMA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MA from Eastern Illinois University, and BM from Baldwin Wallace University. He pursued post-doctoral studies in contemporary music and orchestral percussion at Cleveland State University, Afro-Cuban music in Havana, Cuba, and world percussion at the Berklee School of Music World Percussion Festival.
For more information please visit glennschaft.com and percussion.ysu.edu