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Christopher Hanning
Associate Professor — Percussion
Chair, Applied Music

Room 152B, Swope Music Building
Phone: 610-436-2831
channing@wcupa.edu

Thoughts on SOM

West Chester University School of Music offers a combination of some of the best qualities necessary for a student to succeed in music school. We have an excellent faculty that maintains active performing schedules, we are in proximity to a major metropolitan area where some of the best musical performances in the world can be heard on a regular basis, and starting in 2007 we will be moving into an outstanding new facility. We have graduates that are teaching in public schools, universities, and many that have very active performing careers. Our percussion students have won national competitions such as MTNA and have placed in the final round of the Percussive Arts Society solo competition.

Mission at SOM

My goal as a college professor is to provide students with an educational experience that will rival any program in the nation. Developing student’s musicianship, professionalism, and self confidence as a player and teacher have always been the focus of my teaching.

Curriculum Vitae

Education
D.M.A., University of Colorado at Boulder
M.M., University of Akron
B.M.E., University of South Florida
B.M., University of South Florida

Chris Hanning is the director of percussion studies at West Chester University and a recording artist for NFL Films. He recently released an instructional drum set DVD Island Grooves through Panyard, Inc. covering Caribbean drumming styles and featuring the Panyard Steel Orchestra. In addition to regular engagements with the Panyard Steel Orchestra, Hanning performs with the West Chester Jazz Orchestra and the Peter Paulsen Quartet. He is the principal percussionist/timpanist with the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, timpanist with the Bach Festival Orchestra of Bethlehem, and percussionist for Philadelphia's premiere contemporary music ensemble Relâche.

Chris Hanning has performed on numerous recordings for NFL Films over the past eight years including two Emmy Award Winning projects. His most recent recordings include sound tracks for My Father’s Gun and Blood From a Stone (History Channel Movies), and various selections for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Super Bowl. Other recent recordings include a CD with legendary saxophonist David Leibman and the Manhattan Saxophone Quartet titled The Seasons Reflected (Soul Note), and a CD by the M.P.H. Trio titled Curves (GPC Records). Reviews of Chris Hanning’s performance on The Seasons Reflected include “…drummer Hanning is magnificent.” (Wire Magazine, England) and “…profound African drumming” (All about Jazz).

Chris Hanning has been teaching drum set and percussion for the last ten years at the SFA Percussion Symposium, WCU Marching Percussion Camp, Kutztown Marching Percussion Camp, and has also been a guest clinician at Marimba Madness in Dallas, TX. Chris was the drum set guest artist at the first and second annual International Association of Pan Conventions performing with Ken “Professor” Philmore, Junior Gill, and the Panyard Steel Orchestra. Chris Hanning is an artist/clinician for the Pearl/Adams Corporation, Panyard, Pro-Mark, Remo, and the Zildjian Company. His teachers include Doug Walter, Larry Snider, Bob McKee, and Robert McCormick.

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