Percussion Ensemble Honors & Repertoire

Concert List

Piascik Percussion Group (36 and counting...)
Various Community Concerts
Percussion Festivals (1991 - Present)

CYS Percussion Ensemble Concerts (1-12)
The Sounds of Music Festivals : 1994-1999
Northern CA PAS Day of Percussion : 1998-2000
Night of the Living Composers Concert : 1999
​Music of the Americas : 1999 Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players
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NJYS Percussion Concerts (1-16)
Ithaca College Tour : November 2011
"Meet the Percussion" Concerts/Workshops (2009 - 2017)
Various Community Concerts
NJ City University PAS "Day of Percussion" : April 2012- 2015
NJYS "35 year Gala Concert" at NJPAC : November 23, 2014
Ithaca College Tour : April 2016
Ithaca College Masterclass : April 2016

Distinguished Music Educator Award

Dr. Piascik wants to honor some of the great educators that have inspired many generations of great percussionists.
​We do not say "Thank you" enough to our great teachers and mentors. 
2013 : Joe Mekler
2014 : Raymond Des Roches
2015 : Murray Houllif
2016 : Gordon Stout
​2017 : Joel Bluestone

Percussion Ensembles Written for Dr. Piascik

PIECE

1995 : TieCo
​1995 : Phases
​1997 : Musica della note
1998 : For Two Mallet Percussionists
​1999 : Gemini Music
​2012 : As it, began
2017 : ​7 O'Clock Skyline

COMPOSER

Jody Rockmaker - Stanford University
​Patrick Bouchard - CA Composer
Molly Axtmann Schrag - CA Composer
​John Prokop - NY Composer
​Paul Davis - Foothill College
​Jessica Downs - Oberlin College
​Zachary Catron

Past Repertoire List

PIECE

Variations on a Ghanaian Theme
My Friend Norman
Log Cabin Blues
Tarantella
Table Top Rock
Wolosodun
Japanese Impressions
Andante from Quartet in C
March
Ostinato Pianissimo
Dream of the Cherry Blossoms
Noises On!
Mas Fuerte
Minute of News
Music for Pieces of Wood
El Muchacho Cinco
Frogs
Improvisation and Canon for Telephone Books
Septet
Canaries
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Bonham
Some Junk Funk
Hungarian Dance No. 5
Head Talk
Concertino for Marimba
Three Brothers
Ogoun Badagris
Conga Mix
4/4 for Four
Tabla-Tahmeel No. 1
Blue Rhythm Quartet
Dining Room Music
Concerto for Marimba
The Gilded Cage
Kabe
Second Petite Suite
Tambourin Chimois
Hip-Hop Chops
Desert Celbration for two Djembes
Toccata
Standup Shadow
Ionisation
Sizzle!
Give Me Light...
Proposal
Sakpata
AutoClave
Away Without Leave
Hands Up
COMPOSER

Daniel Levitan
John Pratt
George H. Green
Steve Grimo
Sherrie Maricle
Traditional
Anthony CIrone
W.A. Mozart
Elliott Carter
Henry Cowell
Keiko Abe
Chris Crockarell
Stephen Rush
Eugene Novotney
Steve Reich
Ed Argenziano
Keiko Abe
Ward Durrett
Daniel Levitan
Elliott Carter
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Christopher Rouse
Sherrie Maricle
Johannes Brahms
Mark Ford
Paul Creston
Michael Colgrass
Christopher Rouse
J. B. Smith
Anthony Cirone
Halim El-Dabh
Anthony Korf
Rubert Kettle
Jorge Sarmientos
Susan K. Powell
J. Michael Roy
Rupert Kettle
Fritz Kreisler
Murray Houlif
Matt Savage
Carlos Chavez
Mark Ford
Edgard Varese
Nathan Daughtrey
Kenneth Piascik & Alex Herbert
Eugene Novotney
Javier Diaz
Daniel Levitan
Bob Becker
Josh Gottry
Inventions on a Motive
Blue Burn
Stubernic
Puzzle Pieces
Jingle Bells
Whole Tone Piece
Dance Mix
Graceful Ghost
Avalanche
Clapping Music Variations
Dance Music for Elfrid Ide
Samba de Verao
Eye Irascible
Equal Fire
Take That
Ghosts
Crescendo
Afta-Stuba
Congastrück
Recital Duo
Michael Colgrass
Joe Tompkins
Mark Ford
Josh Gottry
Alan Keown
Murray Houlif
Gregg Koyle
William Bolcom
Billy Madison
Glenn Kotche
John Cage
Stephen Primatic
Steve Riley
Paul Bissell
William Albright
Corodon Fuller
Alexander Lepak
Mark Ford
J.B. Smith
Dan Knipple
Postludes
Body Lotion
Flight of the Bumble Bee
Creepy Little Wiggly Things
Cupla Cups
Skins
Musique de Tables
José / beFORe John5
Junkyard Rumble
Denkyem
Snarevolution
Frembe
Sharpened Stick
Battlestations II
Akadinda Trio
Percussion Music
Cold Pressed
Fiesta Del Rio
Trio for Ogun
Elliot Cole
Christopher Fellinger
Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Matt Leth
Gary P. Gilroy
John R. Hearnes
J. David Moore
Thierry De May
Aurél Holló
Julie Davilla
Joe W. Moore III
Christopher Fellinger
John Bergamo
Brett William Dietz
Rich Holly
Emmanuel Sejourne
Michael Colgrass
David Hollinden
Mario Gaetano
N. Scott Robinson
3 Movements for Multi-P and Perc.  Quartet
Land
Tango Suite - Movement I
Mother Earth, Father Sky
Bucket Ruckus
Shock Factor
Walk in the Park
Tap-Click
​Carol of the Bells
Fire
Triskaidekaphobia
Theme and Var. for 3 Toms
Quiet
Andante from Quartet in C
Something to Do with Grace
To the Gods of Rhythm
​Fanfare
Fantasy-Variations
​Vivo Vivaldi
UBIK 440
Murray Houllif
Takatsugu Muramatsu
Astor Piazzolla- Arr. Super
Ney Rosauro
Kit Mills
Nathan Daughtrey
Donna Bohn
David Jarvis
​Arr: Jennifer Jones Case
Pete O'Gorman
Josh Gottry
Richard Bernard
David Macbride
Mozart, Arr. Lynn Glassock
Gordon Stout
​Nebojša Jovan Živković
Daniel Levitan
​Michael Colgrass
Arr: Gary P. Gilroy
Christopher Fellinger
Three Modes for Percussion​
Sonata for Timpani
Pulse
TieCo​
Divertimento
Afterthoughts
​Phases
Latin Fantasy
​Clocks
The Song of Queztecoatl
Living Room Music
Raspberries
Voices
For Two Mallet Percussionists
Highlife
​Volume Pig
Lift-Off
Gemini Music
Trio for Percussion
Diners Club
Rodger Whittley
John Beck
​Henry Cowell
​Jody Rockmaker
Bryan Johanson
Alice Gomez
​Patrick Bouchard
John Beck
Frank McCarty
Lou Harrison
​John Cage
Charles Boone
Robert Paterson
​John Prokop
Phil Faini
Gareth Farr
Russell Peck
Paul Davis
Warren Benson
Chris Crockarell
​Brooms Hilda
Surface Tension
Bomba
Antiphon for Two Drummers
Storm Warning and Dance
Wooden Voices
Mixtures
​Balloonology
​Song and Dance
Doomsday Machine
​Tinplay
Cha-Cha for Seven
Metavita
​Lids
​Millennium Bug
​Taiko
​Accent On Rhythm
Mi Milagro
the Destruction of Sennacherib
​Greetings to Hermann
​Chris Crockarell
​David Hollinden
Lou Harrison
Paul Sarcich
Steve Riley
Thomas Keemss
Lynn Glassock
​Chris Crockarell
Gene Kosinski
​Michael Buritt
​Per Andreasson
Murray Houllif
​Cangelosi & Hilliker
Ed Argenziano
​Giovanni Sollima
​Scott Harding
Wm. Schinstine
​Ralph Hicks
Jeffery Barudin
​Hans-Günter Brodmann
​​Introduction and March
Three Dances
​SyncoShift
Garwood Whaley
Jack McKenzie
​Angela Kepley