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Having performed on four continents and more than forty states, Michael Burritt is one of his generation's most accomplished percussionists. He is in frequent demand performing concert tours and master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Canada. Burritt recently premiered Fast Forward, a new chamber concerto written expressly for him by Pulitzer Prize winning Composer Joseph Schwantner in celebration of the centennial of the Eastman School.

Burritt is also active as a composer, with three concertos to his credit as well as numerous solo and chamber works for marimba and percussion. His works for solo marimba have become standard repertoire for the instrument and are frequently required repertoire on international competitions. Burritt is published with Keyboard Percussion Publications, C.

Alan, Masters Music, and Innovative Percussion. Burritt is the first person to hold the Paul J. Burgett Distinguished Professorship and is Professor of Percussion at The Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he is only the third person in the history of the school to hold this position.

Biography. Born: April 23,

Prior to his appointment at Eastman, Mr. Burritt was Professor of Percussion at Northwestern University from —, where he developed a program of international distinction. A more discursive, lyrical and introspective Burritt style is developed in this piece. As is always the case with the music of Michael Burritt, the marimba writing is first-rate, idiomatic, fun to play and makes the marimba sound great.

This duo brings together the styles of folk music, jazz and pop, with a tip of the hat to Phillip Glass in the coda. Can they all work together? You decide!