How to Write Great Sounding and Idiomatic Keyboard Percussion Parts

Michael Compitello is a dynamic, “fast rising” (WQXR) percussionist dedicated to expanding the limits of percussion’s possibilities through long-term collaboration with composers. Through his solo projects and his cello/percussion duo New Morse Code, Compitello has developed an expertise around helping composers turn innovative musical ideas into unique, expressive, and path-breaking new works for percussion. His debut solo album Unsnared Drum—released 2021 on New Focus Recordings—seeks to reinvent the snare drum through long-term collaboration with composers Nina C. Young, Hannah Lash, Amy Beth Kirsten, and Tonia Ko, and has been called "soulful and adventurous" (Take Effect) with his performances praised for their “brilliant technique” (An Earful) and “phenomenal musicality” (The Whole Note). With cellist Hannah Collins as the “remarkably inventive and resourceful” (Gramophone) New Morse Code, Michael has created a singular and personal repertoire through long-term collaboration with some of America’s most esteemed young composers Michael is also a member of Percussion Collective, an ensemble dedicated to refined performances of contemporary percussion repertoire, with whom he performed as soloist with the Colorado Symphony, and on concert series across the country. Michael is Associate Professor of Percussion at Arizona State University. He holds degrees from The Yale School of Music and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. For more information visit michaelcompitello.com