Russell D. Burge
Title: Professor of Percussion
Office: 1371 Corbett Cntr Perform Arts
Tel: 513-556-9417
Email: russell.burge@uc.edu
Rusty Burge is Professor of Percussion at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He is also a member of Percussion Group Cincinnati with whom he has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Recent performances include the Japan World Drum Festival, Chinese International Music Festival, Taipei International Percussion Convention, the Ravinia Festival and numerous PASIC Conventions. He was formerly principal percussionist with the West Virginia Symphony and plays extra with the Cincinnati Symphony. He received his undergraduate degree from the Eastman School of Music and a masters degree from CCM.
Professor Burge teaches percussion, jazz vibraphone and directs the CCM Steel band. He is an active jazz vibraphonist who has recorded for Summit, J Curve Records, CBS Masterworks and Telarc. He has recent performed with Peter Erskine, Ted Nash, Rich Perry, Dave Liebman, Rufus Reid, Steve Allee, Roland Vazquez and Michael Spiro, His latest recording Transitions (with fellow CCM faculty member Kim Pensyl) on Summit Records received rave reviews from Jazz Times and All About Jazz. Mr. Burge's new book Method for Vibraphone was released last fall.
Education
BM, Eastman School of Music.
MM, University of Cincinnati.
James F. Culley
Title: Professor of Percussion
Office: 1371 Corbett Cntr Perform Arts
Tel: 513-556-9417
Email: james.culley@uc.edu
As an original member of the Percussion Group Cincinnati (PGC), James Culley has recorded with PCG for the ars moderno, CDCM, Opus One, Einstein and EMF labels, and performed throughout the U.S. and abroad. He has directed CCM's Percussion Ensemble for thirty-one years, promoting new works by CCM student composers and specializing in performances of unconducted, full-score pieces. This student group has performed at Percussive Arts Society International Conventions in Nashville, St. Louis, and Columbus. In 1998 he received the Ernest N. Glover Outstanding Teaching Award for CCM.
Culley has performed as an extra percussionist in the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Opera Orchestras, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Columbus Symphony, Chautauqua Festival Orchestra, West Virginia Symphony, Columbus Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra and Summit Brass, and he freelances as timpanist/percussionist in regional orchestras.
Education
BA and BM, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH.
MM, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY.
Allen C. Otte
Title: Professor of Percussion
Office: 180 Memorial Hall
Tel: 513-556-9423
Email: allen.otte@uc.edu
Allen Otte came to the University of Cincinnati in 1977 with The Blackearth Percussion Group; in 1979 he founded Percussion Group Cincinnati. Appearances in their national and international touring schedule have included the major cities, festivals, concert halls and schools of America, Europe and Asia. Over the past 30 years, many young composers from around the world have created a large body of new and often experimental music for the trio. The first CD in the group’s contribution to the series of Mode Records’ integrated set of the complete music of John Cage will be available this year.
In addition to percussion, Otte teaches eurhythmics, composition, various literature seminars and coaches and conducts traditional and contemporary chamber music. He has presented his own creative work in solo concerts and guest presentations throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia.
Education
MM, Northern Illinois University , DeKalb, IL.
BM, Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, OH.
