DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY PERCUSSION STUDIO FULL
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY PERCUSSION STUDIO PROFESSIONAL

Exposing the student to a large variety of musical styles and professional grade percussive instruments.

Teaching the fundamentals and discipline needed for proper tone production and sound quality through proven technique.

Serving a range of students including beginners passionate amateurs and aspiring, professional performers.

Studio Louie is a private studio focused on percussion and dedicated to: Our mission is to coach for personal and artistic growth and foster a lifelong love of creative expression in percussion.

DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY PERCUSSION STUDIO FULL

Ryun and his family live in Medina, Ohio, where he free-lances as a percussionist and maintains a full roster of private students. He furthered his education at Carnegie Mellon University where he studied under Timothy Adams, Jr., principal timpanist of the Pittsburgh Symphony.

During this time, he also studied with Cloyd Duff, principal timpanist of the Cleveland Orchestra. He attended the University of Utah where he studied with Doug Wolf, Professor of Percussion at the University of Utah, and George Brown, principal timpanist of the Utah Symphony. He works as an active clinician for the Percussion Arts Society (PAS) and is endorsed by Evans Drumheads, Bosphorus Cymbals, Black Swamp Percussion and Promark Drumsticks.ДЄ native of Salt Lake City, Ryun started his professional career at the age of 15. Louie is the director of the Pana PercussionInstitute entering its 11th season that reaches over 50 percussion students every summer in Wadsworth, Ohio.

Ryun Louie continues to place students in honor groups, all-state and some of the top music conservatories in the United States.

Studio Louie carries 40-45 private students a week. Studio Louie is a private percussion studio that has been teaching young percussionists since 2002. Additionally, he has taught at Augustana College, South Dakota State, Dorht College, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Northwestern Iowa College, Bingham High School, West Jordan and Davis High Schools in Utah, Southside High School in Pennsylvania, Jackson High School, Cloverleaf High School, Brunswick High School, Copley High School, Belleview East High School in Nebraska, Weber State College, University of Omaha-Nebraska, Iowa Western Community College and Duquesne University and the University of Utah. Most recently, Ryun has taken the helm of the percussion programs at the Medina and Wadsworth School Districts in Ohio, and recently served as Artist-in-Residence for Cleveland Heights High School in northeast Ohio. He is an excellent percussionist and drummer.' ~ Peter Erskine 'Ryun Louie is the good rare breed of musician who is equally comfortable and adept in both the legit and popular music worlds. In 2008, Ryun released his first jazz CD called вЂњLouie Says YouвЂќ. He has performed with jazz greats Curtis Fuller, Dick Oates, Greg Gizbert, Clark Terry, Eddie Daniels, Chuck Findley, Tom Garvin, Ira Nepus and Matt Wallis. Ryun Louie has performed for audiences on the stages of the Montreux Jazz Festival, Breintz Jazz Festival, Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival, Park City Jazz Festival and the Art and Edison Farmer Memorial Jazz Festival. No stranger to the orchestral world, Ryun has performed with several orchestras in his 30 year career including the Sounds of Sousa Concert Band, West Virginia Symphony, Erie Symphony, Parkersburg Symphony, Sioux City Symphony, Utah Symphony, Utah Chamber Orchestra, Ballet West Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria (Mexico City), Salt Lake Symphony, Butler Symphony, Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, River City Orchestra, Proteus 7 and the Canadian Brass. Prior to that he served in the United States Air Force as the principal timpanist, principal percussionist and main drum set player with the Heartland of America Band stationed in Omaha, Nebraska. In 2013, he recently completed his tenure as the principal timpanist of the South Dakota Symphony and the South Dakota Symphony Percussion Quartet. Ryun Louie is the Artistic Director of Pana Percussion Group.

Duquesne university percussion studio