Pasic 2005
SABIAN Honors Four with Lifetime Achievement Award
PASIC 2005
Bill Cahn
Bill Cahn has been a member of the NEXUS percussion group since it's formation in 1971. He has performed for films, recordings, and concerts around the world with artists such as Chet Atkins, John Cage, Carlos Chavez, Aaron Copland, Chuck Mangione, Seiji Ozawa, Steve Reich, Doc Severinsen, Igor Stravinsky, Edgar Varèse, and the Paul Winter Consort. Bill was principal percussionist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1968 to 1995, and has appeared as a soloist with major symphony orchestras worldwide. In addition to producing eight CDs, writing books and articles about music and percussion, he has also created and conducted educational programs for orchestras. His book, Creative Music Making, deals with freeform improvisation, while his chamber and orchestral compositions are widely performed. In addition to presenting Creative Music Making workshops around the world, Bill has been an artist-in-residence at the Showa College of Music and Arts in Atsugi, Japan; the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada; and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
Ian Turnbull
Ian Turnbull joined the British Army band at age fifteen, serving in Europe, the Far East and the Caribbean before moving to Canada, where he attained the rank of Principal Percussionist with the Band of H.M. Canadian Guards and the Band of the Royal Canadian Regiment. He would go on to found the Percussion Department at the Faculty of Music, The University of Western Ontario, be Principal Percussionist with the London Symphony Orchestra (London, Canada), become a member of the PAS Board of Directors and founding President of the Ontario Chapter of the PAS. Named to the Mayor of London's New Year's Honors List for promoting music, Ian was also the inaugural recipient of the PAS "Outstanding Chapter President Award". Upon retirement, his employer Belle Air Music established the annual "Ian Turnbull Award" for percussionists at The University of Western Ontario. Instrumental in creating the SABIAN/PASIC Scholarship, which assists young Canadian student percussionists, Ian Turnbull is also the first non-American to receive the prestigious, PAS Outstanding Service Award.
John Wyre
Renowned for his thirty-one years with NEXUS -- with whom he is a member of the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame -- John Wyre studied with Fred Hinger and William Street before playing timpani with the Oklahoma City Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, and as principal percussionist, the Toronto Symphony under Seiji Ozawa. His solo debut was with the Japan Philharmonic and he was also soloist in Toru Takemitsu's Cassiopeia, with the Boston Symphony. His compositions have been performend by ensembles such as by NEXUS, the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra and other orchestras throughout the world. His symphonic work Connexus was recorded by the Rochester Philharmonic and NEXUS. John has been on the faculty of the University of Toronto, Queen's University, and the Banff School of Fine Arts. As director of World Drums he organized and directed many international drum festivals from 1984 - 2000. John Wyre is presently active as a composer and as Adjunct Professor at the School of Music, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
Bob Becker
Bob Becker's performing experience spans nearly all of the musical disciplines where percussion is found: from playing timpani under Pablo Casals and percussion under Pierre Boulez to performing with drummers like Steve Gadd, Peter Erskine and Ed Thigpen. As a member of the percussion group NEXUS, he has appeared as soloist with the world's major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra. For many years he has been one of the core members of the Steve Reich Ensemble and in 1998 the group won a Grammy award for its recording of Reich's Music for 18 Musicians. Considered to be one of the world's premier virtuoso performers on the xylophone and marimba, Becker also appears regularly as an independent soloist and clinician. In particular, his work toward resurrecting the repertoire and performance styles of early 20th century xylophone music has been internationally acclaimed.
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