 N. Scott Robinson
N. Scott Robinson is a highly creative percussionist specializing in hand drumming and world music and has been engaged throughout the USA , Australia , Japan , India , and Korea . Scott has performed on the Grammy Award winning CD Harlem Renaissance with the Benny Carter Big Band and has also performed or recorded with Marilyn Horne, Robert “Tigger” Benford, Jeanie Bryson, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, Layne Redmond, Steve Gorn, Howard Levy, John Clark, Art Baron, Jon Gibson, Eugene Friesen, Paul Halley, Nóiríin Ní Riain, J. D. Parren, Peter Zummo, Paul Winter, Glen Velez, Malcolm Dalglish, and composers John Cage and Annea Lockwood.
Scott has studied with some of the most accomplished creative percussionists including Naná Vasconcelos, Glen Velez, Peter Erskine, William Moersch, Chaka Chawasarira, Cosmas Magaya, Keith Copeland, and Malcolm Dalglish. Holding degrees from leading universities, such as Rutgers University and Kent State University , Scott keeps active with a variety of performing, recording, teaching and publications on hand drumming topics. He regular writes for Modern Drummer and Percussive Notes.
As a solo artist, Scott has given clinics on diverse styles of hand drumming at the Japan Percussion Center in Tokyo , Japan in 1994, for the Percussive Arts Society Washington, DC Day of Percussion in 1995, and at the Percussive Arts Society International Conventions in Nashville , TN in 1996, and Anaheim , California in 1997. His clinics have featured diverse instruments such as udu , riq , bendir , tar , ghaval , frame drum, djembe , congas, and mbira . Scott has taught at Kent State University in Ohio, Shenandoah University in Virginia , The University of Akron in Ohio , and currently teaches at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland . His American concert appearances include previous engagements at Lincoln Center , Apollo Theater, St. Peters , Carnegie Hall, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and the Knitting Factory all in New York City as well as Blues Alley and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington , DC .
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