As the faculty percussionist in the UNI School of Music since 1972, Randy
Hogancamp maintains a full Studio of University and private students in
applied percussion, teaches percussion methods, pedagogy and percussion
literature, and directs the UNI Percussion/Marimba Ensembles and the UNI
West African Drum Ensemble (UNI-WADE).
He performs regularly as
timpanist and principal percussionist with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra,
the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of
Iowa, and with the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, the Des Moines
Symphony and the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra. In addition Mr.
Hogancamp has been a member of the Bill Shepherd Red Hots Dixieland,
Show and Big Bands and is a free-lance percussionist in and around the
Midwest appearing with touring artists such as Shirley Jones, Hal Linden,
Steve & Edie, Roger Williams, Bob Hope, Red Skelton, John Davidson, Mac
Davis and Harry Blackstone, Jr. and Broadway shows including Annie, Grand
Hotel, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Chorus
Line.
Summers find Randy and his wife, Jane (also a percussionist) involved in
many musical ensembles. For 14 years Randy played percussion for the
Waterloo Community Playhouse Musicals (in total more than one full year in
the pit!). They both spend early summers playing in the Cedar Falls and
Waterloo Municipal Bands while in July and August they are in New England
as members of the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra. Jane and
Randy also enjoy working together on projects for their home including
landscaping and transforming musical instruments into decorative
furnishings. Weather permitting they enjoy walking, jogging, and cross-country
skiing. In their spare time they like to travel and explore, especially in Chicago
and New England.
Mr. Hogancamp is an active recitalist and soloist on and off campus and has
presented percussion clinics at IBA and IMEA as well as in several states and
Canada. He is currently a clinician for Sabian Cymbals and Mike Balter
Mallets and serves as a consultant for school music programs and as an
adjudicator for contests and All-State events in Iowa and the surrounding
states.
Randy has commissioned two major works for percussion that were
dedicated to him: Concerto 440 by Dan Spalding and Powers of Five by Peter
Hamlin. In addition the UNI Percussion Ensembles have premiered several
works including the world premieres of Ventures (1979) by Lathon Jernigan.
Three Patchen Songs (1984) by Mary Place-Badarak, The Greenfly (1987) by
Janika Vandervelde, and Three Views from the Hill (1993) by Jeremy Beck, the
United States premieres of Signals (1985) by Torsten Nilsson and
Teufelstanz (1988) by Nancy Van de Vate, and the Iowa premiere of Junctures
(1991) by Ted Piltzecker. Teufelstanz will be featured on a compact disc of
works by Nancy Van de Vate issued by Vienna Masters.
Mr. Hogancamp’s
students have been successful in auditions and competitions including
All-State, Major Landers, Omaha Symphony and Fort Dodge Symphony Young
Artists, Presser Scholarships, WAMSO Young Artists, MTNA, American Wind
Symphony, Ohio Light Opera, and collegiate scholarships.
Mr. Hogancamp holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from the
University of Northern Iowa and a master’s degree in percussion performance
from Northwestern University. He has studied percussion with Richard Talbut,
Haskell Harr, James Coffin, Roy Knapp, Farrell Morris and Terry Applebaum
and conducting with Henry Romersa and Bernard Rubenstein. He recently
completed a program of study in Ewe drumming at the Dagbe Cultural
Institute and Arts Center, Kopeyia, Ghana, West Africa.
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