Trommestikker Promark Autograph Matt Strauss, MS1, Concert General, Persimmon, Wood Tip

Trommestikker Pro-Mark Autograph Matt Strauss, MS1, Concert General, Persimmon, Wood Tip

Diameter: .670"
Length: 17"
Tip Material: Wood
Tip Shape: Arrow

The Matthew Strauss Concert General Drumstick is the perfect implement for any percussionist looking for a premium, general use concert stick. This drumstick was designed with Matthew Strauss, renowned percussionist from the Houston Symphony, as part of a series of premium concert drumsticks to accommodate the wide range of playing situations and repertoire demands that he faces. The General model features a long taper for a rebound feel, and a long, arrow shaped tip which creates full bodied tone and greater ease in playing rolls through greater surface contact with the drumhead.

- Made of high-quality American Persimmon, a preferred wood for concert applications due to its strength, weight and density properties.
- Length: 17"
- Diameter: .670"
- Long taper for rebound
- Long, arrow-shaped tip provides a greater contact surface with the drum, creating full-bodied tone and greater ease in playing rolls.
- All Promark drumsticks are designed, engineered, and manufactured in the USA at our Texas facility to the most stringent quality controls in the industry

ABOUT MATTHEW STRAUSS

Matthew Strauss has been applauded throughout the United States as an energetic percussionist and timpanist with a diverse musical background.

In addition to his position as Associate Principal Timpanist / Section Percussionist with the Houston Symphony, Mr. Strauss is an Associate Professor of Percussion at Rice University, Visiting Lecturer at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music and faculty member at the Texas Music Festival at the University of Houston. Prior to his post in Houston, he performed as a member of the percussion section in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra throughout the 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons. He also has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, to name a few. Solo appearances include performances with the Houston Symphony, Texas Music Festival Orchestra, Akron Symphony, New Hampshire Music Festival, Reading Symphony Orchestra and Delaware Symphony Orchestra. An active chamber musician, Mr. Strauss has performed with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Da Camera of Houston, Foundation For Modern Music, Bard Festival Chamber Players, Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival, Skaneateles Music Festival, and has participated in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's contemporary chamber series, Music Now, under the batons of Pierre Boulez and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Mr. Strauss received his bachelor's degree in Percussion Performance from the Juilliard School and his master's degree in Performance from the Temple University.

He is an alumnus of both the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals and has participated in the Spoleto Music Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. Mr. Strauss taught percussion performance at the Mason Gross School of Music at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. He has presented master classes and clinics at numerous schools, festivals, and conventions such as the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, New World Symphony, Juilliard School, Aspen Music Festival, Northwestern University, Texas Bandmasters Association Convention, Conservatoire de Region in Paris, Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Temple University, Bard Conservatory, New York University, Peabody Conservatory, Tanglewood Music Center, University of Maryland, George Mason University, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Roosevelt University, and DePaul University. Mr. Strauss is a performing artist and clinician for ProMark, Evans Heads, Zildjian Inc., and Pearl/Adams Corporation.