Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 384 - Louis Raymond-Kolker

Pete's Percussion Podcast - Pete Zambito

High Point University (NC) Professor of Percussion, Theory and Composition Louis Raymond-Kolker stops by to chat about HPU, North Carolina, and teaching at Appalachian State and Winston-Salem State (02:25), getting into composing and the art of teaching composition (26:05), growing up in Austin, TX and getting into all things percussion (37:40), his undergrad years at Texas A&M-Commerce and his time in drum corps (49:05), his masters years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (01:08:15), his gap year before heading to North Carolina, including his time as a USPS letter carrier (01:18:45), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions segment, including discussions of “The Percussion Canon”, Jhumpa Lahiri, Miyazaki movie scores, and “Dave the Diver” (01:26:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 film The Zone of Interest (01:52:35).

Louis Raymond-Kolker Links:

Louis Raymond-Kolker’s website

Louis Raymond-Kolker’s High Point University website

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Danny Frye in 2018

Christopher Thompson in 2020

Dave Hall in 2020

Brian Zator in 2017

Other Links:

Mat Campbell

Brian Meixner

North Carolina Brass Band

Inside Out Steelband

Austin Percussion Collective

High Point University Community Orchestra

Diana Loomer

Gordon Stout

Liam Teague

Greg Beyer

Greg Simon

Partita for Eight Voices - Caroline Shaw

Discovering the Waterfront - Silverstein

“Remember, Marimba” - Errollyn Wallen

“Dream of the Cherry Blossoms” - Keiko Abe

“Time for Marimba” - Minoru Miki

Guardians DBC

Great Plains International Marimba Competition

Hayao Miyazaki

Jhumpa Lahiri

DAVE THE DIVER

Raves:

The Zone of Interest trailer