Patrick Roulet, DMA
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PA 023
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email me for an appointment: proulet@wwu.edu
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About
Teaching Artist, Patrick Roulet is the percussion professor and Percussion Area Coordinator at Western Washington University. Previously, he taught at Towson University (MD) and Southern Utah University and at summer music camps for both youth and adults at the Snow Pond Center for the Arts in Maine and the Midsummer Musical Retreat in Washington state.
He has published Intermediate Studies for Developing Artists on Keyboard Percussion and 11 collections of music arranged for vibraphone and marimba including music from Ghana, Disney classics, the Beatles, Christmas songs, church hymns, and fiddle tunes. His profound curiosity for global music inspired him to study drumming and xylophone playing in Ghana, West Africa where he also experienced the joyful and powerful connection between music and community.
A classically-trained orchestral percussionist, he served for five seasons as the principal timpanist of the Bellingham Festival of Music and performed as an extra/substitute percussionist with the Seattle Symphony, the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, Opera Lafayette (Kennedy Center/ Lincoln Center), and orchestras in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Michigan.
He earned his formal academic degrees in percussion performance from the University of Washington (Doctor of Musical Arts), Boston University (Master of Music) and the University of Michigan (Bachelor of Music).
Patrick has performed and presented at the Edeta Arts International Percussion Festival in Valencia, Spain, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) and the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. He is a Yamaha Performing Artist and endorser of Grover Pro Percussion and Vic Firth.