Biography & CV
Dr. Aaron Ziegler is a freelance percussionist, educator, and arranger in Toledo, Ohio. He currently serves as drum line/percussion instructor at Heidelberg University, and at various junior high and high schools in the area. He also maintains a private studio of concert percussion, marching percussion, drum set, and world percussion students, and an active local, national, and international performance schedule.
As a percussionist, drummer, and pannist, Dr. Ziegler has performed throughout the midwest including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Iowa and Ohio days of percussion. He has also performed internationally at the Percussive Arts Society International Conference 2011 and 2013, the Inaugural International Panorama Competition in Trinidad & Tobago in 2015, served as the percussion adjudicator for the annual Hong Kong Schools Music Festival in Hong Kong, China in 2017 and 2021, and served as a guest artist and clinician at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand in 2020. Additionally, his article "Idiomatic Harmonic Arranging for Double Seconds & Triple Guitars" was published by the National Society of Steel Band Educators in September of 2018.
In addition to his active performing and teaching schedule, Dr. Ziegler is also a steel pan arranger and composer with his pieces published through Alfred Music, MauMau Music, and Sheet Music Plus. His arrangements are frequently featured in steel band concerts throughout the United States. Dr. Ziegler received his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Percussion Performance and Pedagogy with a secondary area in Ethnomusicology, as well as his Master of Arts from the University of Iowa, and his Bachelor of Music Performance from the University of Toledo. Dr. Ziegler is a proud endorsor of Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets.
As a percussionist, drummer, and pannist, Dr. Ziegler has performed throughout the midwest including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Iowa and Ohio days of percussion. He has also performed internationally at the Percussive Arts Society International Conference 2011 and 2013, the Inaugural International Panorama Competition in Trinidad & Tobago in 2015, served as the percussion adjudicator for the annual Hong Kong Schools Music Festival in Hong Kong, China in 2017 and 2021, and served as a guest artist and clinician at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand in 2020. Additionally, his article "Idiomatic Harmonic Arranging for Double Seconds & Triple Guitars" was published by the National Society of Steel Band Educators in September of 2018.
In addition to his active performing and teaching schedule, Dr. Ziegler is also a steel pan arranger and composer with his pieces published through Alfred Music, MauMau Music, and Sheet Music Plus. His arrangements are frequently featured in steel band concerts throughout the United States. Dr. Ziegler received his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Percussion Performance and Pedagogy with a secondary area in Ethnomusicology, as well as his Master of Arts from the University of Iowa, and his Bachelor of Music Performance from the University of Toledo. Dr. Ziegler is a proud endorsor of Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets.
Education
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (2012-2015)
Doctor of Musical Arts In Percussion Performance and Pedagogy
Secondary Area - Ethnomusicology
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (2010-2012)
Master of Arts in Percussion Performance and Pedagogy
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio (2005- 2009)
Bachelor of Music in Performance
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (2012-2015)
Doctor of Musical Arts In Percussion Performance and Pedagogy
Secondary Area - Ethnomusicology
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (2010-2012)
Master of Arts in Percussion Performance and Pedagogy
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio (2005- 2009)
Bachelor of Music in Performance
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