Guest Percussionist: Dr. Bill Shaltis

Dr. Bill Shaltis will be visiting VCU Music and performing on Thursday, October 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Singleton Center for the Performing Arts. 

Bill Shaltis is the associate professor of percussion at the University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music and principal timpanist of the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra and Boise Baroque Orchestra, and regularly performs with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Formerly, Shaltis was the principal timpanist for the Boise Philharmonic Orchestra, principal percussion of the Evansville Philharmonic and Owensboro Symphony, and on faculty at Missouri Southern State University and the University of Evansville. He is a sought-after clinician and performer throughout North America, Europe and China and has performed and presented at several PASICs, the NAfME and Midwest Conferences, and at state conferences, Day of Percussion events and universities throughout the country.