About Andrea Venet
Andrea Venet is a percussion artist, soloist, award-winning educator, and composer, and is Associate Professor of Percussion at the University of North Florida. Performing and lecturing at over 40 universities worldwide, Venet also is a member of a percussion duo, Escape Ten.
Andrea's Career
Dr. Andrea Venet is a percussion artist, soloist, educator, and composer specializing in contemporary and classical genres. She is currently Associate Professor and head of the percussion department at the University of North Florida. As an international soloist, chamber musician, and clinician, she maintains an active performance schedule with appointments held in Europe, Japan, Argentina, Canada, and Trinidad. Notable performances include the WASBE & Àgora Actual Festivals (Spain), Banda Sinfónica de la Provincia de Córdoba (Argentina), Kyoto City University University of Arts, PASIC, McGill University (Montreal), Eastman School of Music, Steve Weiss Mallet Festival, Celebrate Marimba Festival, and with the PMR Brass Band (Canada). Her duo, Escape Ten, are signature performing artists and regularly commission new works for percussion. They have their own line of chamber mallets through Malletech and publication series through KPP. Escape Ten has performed and lectured at over 40 universities, at five international conferences, and was featured on NPR’s “Performance Today
Music Education
An award-winning pedagogue and passionate educator, Andrea has been the recipient of the Gerson Yessin Distinguished Professorship in Classical Studies, the UNF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, and multiple STARS awards for her research and creative activity. She directs the UNF percussion ensemble, teaches applied lessons, pedagogy, methods, percussion literature, and co-directs the UNF NuMIX ensemble. Her areas of research and creative activity include composition, pedagogy, improvisation, marimba and voice, and historically informed Baroque performance practice techniques for playing Bach on marimba. Andrea is commissioned regularly; her works have been performed internationally with world premieres at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, by Grammy-Award winning Third Coast Percussion, and by Drumily Percussion Group in Taiwan. You can hear Andrea on albums Revelations (DrGlocken AV), This Prismasonic Rock I Stand (Mark Records), Our Favorite Things (Ravello), and Colours of a Groove (Escape Ten). Andrea is an artist for Malletech, Black Swamp, Remo, Dream Cymbals, and currently serves on the Percussive Arts Society Board of Advisors.
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