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Richard Jensen has been a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra percussion section since 1972, the year he won the position at the age of twenty. He now holds the dual positions of Associate Principal Timpanist and Percussionist. Mr. Jensen can be heard on over one hundred recordings with the CSO and Cincinnati Pops Orchestras, and has been the principal mallet player on most recordings. He played principal timpani on the CSO recordings of Stravinskys The Rite of Spring, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, and Dvorak's New World Symphony, all with Paavo Jarvi conducting. He has toured extensively in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Europe, Japan, China and Taiwan as percussionist and timpanist with the CSO. Among his solo credits are concerto appearances with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Cincinnati Pops at Riverbend, The Illinois Philharmonic, and the American Premiere of Richard Mills Soundscapes for Percussion and Orchestra, with the Middletown, Ohio Symphony. Mr. Jensen has collaborated with the Empire Brass Quintet as percussion arranger and performer on six of their recordings for Telarc. He has presented clinics at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, the 2002 OMEA State Convention, at Percussive Arts Society International Conventions in 1999 and 2004.

A native of Seattle, Washington, Richard Jensen studied with Seattle Symphony Principal Percussionist Randy Baunton, attended the University of Washington and the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Fred Hinger. Richard holds a bachelor's degree in percussion from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati. He has also performed with the Seattle Symphony, the Seattle Opera, the National Orchestral Association of New York City, the Colorado Philharmonic, the Grand Teton Music Festival, the CSO Chamber Players series, the Taft Museum Chamber Series, and has been on the artist faculty of the Marrowstone Music Festival in Washington state. A former faculty member of CCM and Edgecliff College, he has been a faculty member at Northern Kentucky University since 1989, and is an Avedis Zildjian Co. artist.

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Scott Lang is currently the Director of Percussion Studies at the Department of Music at Northern Kentucky University where he teaches applied percussion, directs the percussion ensemble, and periodically teaches Percussion Methods and the Music of World Cultures.

Averaging well over 100 performances a year, he performs in a variety of genres and venues throughout the Midwest, nationally and around the world. Mr. Lang has traveled to Africa, Asia, Central America and Europe to study or perform music and he has performed concerts in Guatemala City, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore and numerous cities in Japan and South Korea as well as over 2300 performances throughout the United States and Canada.

Mr. Lang is the principal Timpanist/Percussionist with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and is also a frequent performer with the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras as an extra percussionist having played on 19 Telarc label recordings with these groups. He also remains an active extra percussionist with the Dayton Philharmonic and the Louisville Orchestra.

Mr. Lang recently appeared on a PBS national Broadcast as an extra percussionist with the Cincinnati Pops in Take Me to the River. He also appears on two nationally broadcast PBS specials that began airing in 2007 and will continue to air periodically over the next several years. These specials, Fifties Pop Parade, My Music and Sixties Experience Part II, My Music, feature a variety of famous pop and rock and roll artists of the 1950s and 1960s. A short list of the many artists Mr. Lang has performed with include: Chet Atkins, Tony Bennett, Cab Calloway, Kristin Chenoweth, Eddie Daniels, Peter Frampton, James Galway, Art Garfunkel, Dizzy Gillespie, Robert Goulet, Jennifer Holliday, James Levine, Mannheim Steamroller, Don McLean, Moody Blues, Luciano Pavarotti, Doc Severinsen, The Temptations, and Andre Watts.

Mr. Lang has performed large multiple-percussion setups for 26 national touring productions of Broadway musicals at Cincinnati’s Aronoff Center and Dayton’s Schuster Center.  A short list of these shows include: 42nd Street, Beauty and the Beast, Evita, Hairspray, The Producers, Spamalot, Wicked and Shrek.

Mr. Lang also has performed nationally as a cimbalom artist having been featured on this Hungarian hammered dulcimer-like instrument with the St. Louis Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Columbus Symphony, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras as well as other orchestras in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.

Scott Lang is a longtime member of both the Percussive Arts Society and the American Federation of Musicians and is pleased to be an Educator Endorser for Pro-Mark.

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 David Fishlock, Principal percussionist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, grew up in Buffalo, New York, where he began playing percussion at age six. Having decided at an early age that he wanted to make music his career, David played in many different ensembles in the Buffalo area during his childhood years. While working towards his Bachelor's of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, he played with the orchestras of Cleveland, Buffalo, Akron, and Erie. After receiving his degree, David moved to Miami, Florida to play in the New World Symphony from 1988-1991, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. In 1991, he won a position with the Cincinnati Symphony; he was appointed Associate Principal in 1997 and was appointed principal in 2010. As well as maintaining a busy performance and teaching schedule, David takes part in a vital outreach program sponsored by the Symphony which focuses on bringing music to children of the inner city of Cincinnati.

David and his wife, Catherine, live in Cincinnati where they homschool their four children. His hobbies include carpentry, gardening, and raising chickens.

Mr. Fishlock plays on Black Swamp Percussion accessories, Pearl/Adams musical instruments, and Zildjian cymbals.

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Patrick Schleker was appointed to the position of Principal Timpanist with the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops Orchestras in August 2006.  Prior to his engagement in Cincinnati, Schleker earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Northern Illinois University and a Master of Music degree from Cleveland State University.  He also served as Principal Timpanist of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago while attending school in Illinois. When not performing, he composes and arranges music for jazz ensembles, percussion ensembles, marching bands and concert:nova.  Aside from his position with the Symphony, he also performs with the Base4 Percussion Quartet, and he can be heard on the quartet’s debut album, [one].  Schleker is endorsed by Evans Drumheads.

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