Lancaster Bible College will host its annual weeklong intensive Total Percussion Seminar from Tuesday to Saturday, June 16 to 20. The program will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Good Shepherd Chapel on the college's Lancaster campus at 901 Eden Road. The event will end with a showcase performance open to the public at 2 p.m. on June 20.

The Total Percussion Seminar is geared for middle school, high school, and college percussionists, although adult percussionists are also welcome to register and participate. Throughout the week, students will participate in clinics, master classes, and percussion ensembles as they experience hands-on learning on drumline techniques, drum set, mallet studies, concert techniques, world and hand drumming, music technology, and district audition preparation.

The guest artists and clinicians will include Brent Behrenshausen, Daniel Mark, Adam Stec, Ralph Sorrentino, Rob Robinson, David Nelson, and Gabriel Staznik.

Behrenshausen is the director of the Total Percussion Seminar and an adjunct professor at LBC.

Mark is a Total Percussion Seminar mallet percussion specialist and the percussion director of the Kutztown University marching band.

Stec is the owner of Drums Etc./The Drummer's Pro Shop and has been a professional in the music industry for over a decade.

Sorrentino teaches applied percussion and directs the percussion ensemble at West Chester University. He is the principal percussionist with Opera Philadelphia and a section percussionist with the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra. He is also a founding member of Electrum Duo.

Robinson is an artist with Ludwig Marching Percussion and an adjudicator for USBands. Inducted into the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame, he lives in South Florida and works as a private teacher, clinician, and composer.

Nelson is a freelance percussionist and timpanist based in the Philadelphia area and the principal timpanist of the Philly Pops and the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. He performs regularly with the Philadelphia Orchestra, serves on the faculty at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Temple University.

Staznik is a freelance percussionist, educator, and arranger residing in the Washington, D.C., area. He is the drummer in Max Impact and serves as the section chief of unit operations for the United States Air Force Band.

Registration and payment are due by Saturday, June 13, at http://www.lbc.edu/percussion.

Event sponsors include Vic Firth, Zildjian, Ludwig, and Drums Etc.