Steve Hemphill
Professor of Percussion
Steve.Hemphill@nau.edu
928-523-3739
Building 37, Room 162
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Florida State University
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Eastman School of Music
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Eastman School of Music
NAU Bands Website
NAU
Percussion Studio
Steve
Hemphill has been a Professor of Music and the Director of the Percussion
Studies Program at Northern Arizona University since 1991. Dr. Hemphill has taught at the State
University College at Geneseo, NY, the University of Rochester, the University
of Wyoming (serving as Assistant Director of Bands), and at Florida State
University (as a visiting professor).
His
performance credentials include:
- Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
- Rochester Philharmonic
- Orquesta Sinfonica Municipal
- Ballet de Caracas of Caracas, Venezuela
(principal timpanist)
- Savannah Symphony
- Tallahassee Symphony (principal
percussionist)
- Phoenix Symphony
- Flagstaff Festival of the Arts Orchestra
(principal percussionist)
- Wagner Ring Cycle Orchestra-Arizona Opera
(principal percussionist)
He
has performed in Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines,
and Europe. Currently, he performs as principal timpanist of the Flagstaff
Symphony Orchestra. Through various venues, Dr. Hemphill has performed with
Freddie Hubbard, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Shirley McLaine and Roger
Williams, among other collaborations.
He has recorded on the Telarc, Grenadilla,
Orion, Mercury Golden Imports, and Toshiba EMI labels. Dr. Hemphill is a recent
past president and vice-president of the Arizona chapter of the Percussive Arts
Society, and is Associate Producer/Director (with Mark Yancich) of The Art of
Timpani instructional video series.