| Percussionist Daniel Pate, 23, of San Diego, CA, performs newly commissioned works and standard repertoire in concerts throughout the United States. He won the San Diego Symphony’s 2002 “Hot Shots” competition and performed Paul Creston’s Concertino for Marimba as soloist with the symphony. |
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He won the 2003 UC Davis Summerarts Festival Soloist Competition, receiving a full scholarship and performing a solo concert of new and commissioned music at the famous Mondavi Center. He was named Most Promising Performer in the 2003 La Jolla Music Society Competition and the 2002 Goodlin Scholarship Competition. He won the 2006 University of Massachusetts Concerto Competition. With the UMass Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr., he played Keiko Abe’s
Prism Rhapsody for Marimba, which he also performed on January 12th. Mr. Pate has performed with such chamber groups as the UMass advanced percussion ensemble “Talking Drum” and San Diego State University’s “Fulcrum” and is a founding member of the “Duplexx” percussion duo. Daniel has conducted several master classes in middle and high schools in California and New England. In 2005, Mr. Pate performed William Kraft’s English Suite in several master classes with the famed composer himself there to describe it to the audience. Currently Mr. Pate is the percussion instructor for Valle Halla High School. He received his Master’s Degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst under the instruction of Eduardo Leandro in 2007, as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Percussion Performance from San Diego State University in 2005. He has also studied with percussionists Robert Van Sice, Gordon Stout, Christopher Norton, Nancy Zeltsman, Michael Burritt, Steven Schick, Jack Van Geem and Raynor Carrol.
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