Percussionist Brian Blume has experience performing throughout the United States and in Europe, and as a composer has works published by Tapspace Publications, PercMaster Publications, and drop6 media. He is currently percussionist with the Terre Haute (IN) Symphony Orchestra. Brian has studied percussion with Kevin Bobo, Steve Houghton, John Tafoya, Anthony Cirone, Gerald Carlyss, and Brent Montgomery. Recently, Brian has been a winner of the 2010 National Society of Arts and Letters Instrumental Competition and the 2010 Mid-Missouri Percussion Arts Trophy marimba competition. Brian marched 4 years as a snare drummer (percussion captain 3 years) in the Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps. He has performed with Emil Richards, Mark Ford, Bob Becker, Anthony Cirone, Steve Houghton, and Kevin Bobo, including a 2007 PASIC performance with Bobo in Columbus, OH.

Brian is an active composer/arranger, educator, adjudicator, and clinician in Indiana and throughout the Midwest. He writes for numerous high school percussion programs and has written for the IU Marching Hundred Drumline and the Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps battery section. He is an assistant instructor of the IU Drumline, percussion instructor at several Indiana high schools, and private instructor of percussion.

Brian earned a Master of Music degree in percussion performance from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, where he also completed a Bachelor of Music degree in performance. Brian is a member of the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).

Visit Brian's website at brianblumemusic.com.