Lancaster Bible College (LBC), 901 Eden Road, Lancaster, will host its annual weeklong intensive Total Percussion Seminar from Tuesday, June 17, to Saturday, June 21. The seminar will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day and take place in Good Shepherd Chapel on LBC's campus. The five-day event will end with a showcase performance open to the public at 2 p.m. on June 21.  

The seminar is open to students in middle and high school and is designed to help them strengthen musicianship and fundamental percussion technique. Adult percussionists are also welcome to register and participate. Throughout the week, students will participate in clinics, master classes, percussion ensembles, and marching percussion exercises as they experience hands-on learning on concert percussion, drum set, world drumming, music technology, and audition preparation.

Guest artists and clinicians featured at the seminar will include Brent Behrenshausen, director of the Total Percussion Seminar and LBC adjunct professor; Daniel Mark, Total Percussion Seminar mallet percussion specialist and percussion director of the Kutztown University marching band; Adam Stec, owner of Drums Etc./The Drummer's Pro Shop; Ralph Sorrentino, director of the percussion ensemble at West Chester University and percussionist with Opera Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra; Rob Robinson, artist with Ludwig Marching Percussion and adjudicator for U.S. Bands; Robert Wilson, band director at Brandywine School District; and Gabriel Staznik, freelance percussionist and section chief of unit operations for the United States Air Force Band.

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