Steve Hemphill
Percussion
Steve.Hemphill@nau.edu
(928) 523-3739
Building 37, Room 162
Steve Hemphill, Professor of Music and Director of the Percussion Studies Program at Northern Arizona University since 1991, earned the B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the D.M. from Florida State University. Dr. Hemphill has taught at the State University College at Geneseo, NY, the University of Rochester, the University of Wyoming (serving as Assistant Director of Bands), and at Florida State University (as a visiting professor). His performance credentials include the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Orquesta Sinfonica Municipal and Ballet de Caracas of Caracas, Venezuela (principal timpanist), the Savannah Symphony, the Tallahassee Symphony (principal percussionist), the Phoenix Symphony, the Flagstaff Festival of the Arts Orchestra (principal percussionist) and the Wagner Ring Cycle Orchestra-Arizona Opera (principal percussionist). He has performed in Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Europe. Currently, he performs as principal timpanist of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra. Through various venues, Dr. Hemphill has performed with Freddie Hubbard, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Shirley McLaine and Roger Williams, among other collaborations. He has recorded on the Telarc, Grenadilla, Orion, Mercury Golden Imports, and Toshiba EMI labels. Dr. Hemphill is a recent past president and vice-president of the Arizona chapter of the Percussive Arts Society, and is Associate Producer/Director (with Mark Yancich) of The Art of Timpani instructional video series.
For more information check out the NAU Bands website and the NAU Percussion Studio