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Water and Fire
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Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Water and Fire
St. Thomas
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Dr. Darby is an instrumentalist, educator, and composer of chamber, symphonic, jazz, and commercial music with specializations in percussion and guitar. An artist whose scope of performances span the virtuosity of the classics to the contemporary, Dr. Darby has performed as a featured concerto soloist and has commissioned and premiered award-winning solo and chamber works of internationally renowned composers. As an educator, he has maintained a private studio throughout his entire professional career - at one point having as many as 50 individual students - teaching lessons on percussion, drum set, guitar, and bass, and group instruction of concert music for chamber ensembles as well as jazz and commercial music for small group combos. He served as Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Percussion Division of the School of Music at the University of Tennessee, where he taught lessons, methods classes, and ensembles to music majors and minors. He instructed the marching band drum line at the University of Illinois during his doctoral studies. He has taught masterclasses at several high schools in Missouri, Tennessee, and Illinois. His compositions include a variety of styles, with works for solo instruments, small and large ensembles, and electro-acoustics. He has adapted, arranged, and performed guitar literature for marimba and vibraphone. Dr. Darby currently resides in Champaign, Illinois, where he is a freelance musician and teaches out of his private studio.
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