Houllif-Festival Repertoire for Drumset

The eight solos in Murray Houllif's Festival Repertoire for Drumset are suitable for pedagogy, contest, recital, jury, and audition purposes and are written for a 5 piece drum set (snare drum, bass drum, high, medium and low toms). These solos explore the rhythmic, dynamic, and tonal possibilities of the drum set, wtih the use of sticks, brushes, fingers, timpani mallets, etc. Styles include jazz (hard bop, swing, waltz), rock (classic and funk), Latin and ethnic.

Number of Players: 1
Difficulty:Grade 3-4
Instrumentation:

Player I: Drum Set

A native of Woodbourne, New York, Murray Houllif holds degrees from the State University of New York at Potsdam (BS Music Education) and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (MM Percussion Performance). His teachers include Raymond Des Roches, Richard Fitz, James Petercsak, Sandy Feldstein and BeyPerry. Having subsequently served as co-coordinator of percussion at North Texas State University in Denton, Murray has recently retired from 32 years as a band director and percussion specialist in the public schools of Smithtown, New York.