New York Irish Center
World Percussion Class

World percussion with colin harte
$165 for 8-week semester
tuesdays @ 6 pm

Welcome to World Percussion!!! This live instruction, online class will be looking at different percussion traditions from around the globe. Students will learn to play assorted percussion traditions. Students will be able to perform rhythms from musical traditions from Brazil, The Caribbean, West Africa and South America, amongst others. This class is intended for beginner and intermediate students. The class will be meeting via zoom to play and discuss music. Students should have a percussion instrument (preferably a drum) for class. Email Colin cfh745@gmail.com for more information.

About colin harte

Colin Harte earned his PhD in Ethnomusicology at the University of Florida’s School of Music, where he founded and performed with the UF Irish Traditional Music Ensemble. He earned his Masters in Educational Leadership from CUNY-Hunter College in 2018; his Master’s in Ethnomusicology from the University of Limerick; and his Master’s in Education from CUNY-Lehman College while teaching band, general music and percussion ensemble.

He currently teaches ethnomusicological courses for CUNY-Music/Irish Studies. He also teaches a world music curriculum for the NYCDOE in the north Bronx where he directs a 60 student West-African/Afro-Latin percussion ensemble, piano lab, world music courses, and music technology courses with the school recording studio. As a pianist, bodhrán player, and world music percussionist, he is active in the New York jazz, Latin and Irish traditional music communities. He wrote An Bodhrán: Experimentation and Innovation, which was published in May 2020 with the University of Tennessee Press.