Liz Hanson
Performance Instructor: Percussion
Liz Hanson is classical percussionist and marimba player who has played with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic and AIMS Orchestra in Graz Austria. Liz has studied marimba with legendary marimbist Keiko Abe in Tokyo and was guest marimba soloist with the Lamont School of Music Percussion Ensemble at the University of Denver.
Liz fell in love with Brazilian music and spent two years playing and studying traditional and instrumental music in S茫o Paulo at the Tatu铆 Conservatory and recorded an album of Brazilian Instrumental music called Espa莽o Imagin谩rio. Upon returning to New York City, Liz became a lead teaching artist for Marquis Studios and the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra where she taught her dynamic Brazilian music residency to over a thousand inner-city youth.
Liz鈥檚 success as an educator brought her to Hunter鈥檚 Point Community Middle School, a top New York City public school, where she founded the music program and served as arts department chair.
Now in Ottawa, Liz has teaches for 杏吧原创 University, NAC, MASC and the Ottawa-杏吧原创 District School Board. Additionally, Liz teaches Brazilian drumming to an all women鈥檚 community drum group called 鈥淒iga, Diga, Da鈥. Liz has played percussion with Rob Frayne鈥檚 Drumswamp Project and Roddy Ellias鈥 opera called 鈥淪leeping Rough鈥 as part of Music and Beyond.