Joe Perea

Faculty, Director of Bands,
Music

145
Forsyth
Santa Rosa

Telephone: (707) 527-4318
Fax: 707-521-7988
jperea@santarosa.edu

Classes

• Section 8760 of MUSC 2A: Music Theory 1 -- Spring 2013 -- Santa Rosa
  
  

Biography

Joe Perea is the new Director of Bands at Santa Rosa Junior College. He joins us after 6 years as Director of Instrumental Music and music department head of Richland College in Dallas, TX. Joe holds degrees in Percussion Performance from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the University of North Texas. He has studied wind conducting with Eugene Corporon and marimba performance with Leigh Howard Stevens. He has performed in numerous symphony orchestras around the country, as well as with the Dallas Wind Symphony under the batons of Jerry Junkin and Frederick Fennell. He has appeared on recordings of the Cincinnati and North Texas Wind Symphonies under the Klavier label as well as the top-selling GIA Publications series, Teaching Music Through Performance in Band.
Joe is also performer, arranger, and scholar on Caribbean steel drum instruments and is one of fewer than 100 people living in the United States who build and tune these instruments. In this artform, he has performed with many of the top artists including Darren Dyke, Ray Holman, Tom Miller, Andy Narell, Ken "Professor" Philmore, Len "Boogsie" Sharpe, and many others.

Education

B.M. Percussion Performance, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
M.M. Percussion Performance/Wind Conducting, University of North Texas

Academic Experience

2002-2008 Director of Instrumental Music, Richland College, Dallas County Community College District, Dallas TX

Professional Areas of Interest

I am a builder and tuner of Caribbean steel pan instruments. I also compose and arrange music for that medium.

Professional Involvement and Community Service

Music Association of California Community Colleges
Percussive Arts Society
Texas Community College Band Directors Association
Texas Music Educators Association

Presentations and Publications

Featured on the "Steel" episode of The Works, aired on The History Channel

Marketing to Millennial Students, Music Association of California Community Colleges annual conference, San Diego 2008

Honors and Awards

2007 cohort, National Community College Hispanic Council Leadership Fellows Program

Links

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