Fish, a 2003 graduate of Brevard College, is now an Appalachian State University (ASU) Chancellor’s Fellow studying percussion performance for his master’s degree in music.His solo mallet instrument performance at the Porter Center will feature the marimba and vibraphone and include works by composers from Denmark, France, Japan, Brazil and the United States. The concert will also include Japanese drums called Taiko. Fish, who founded the Davidson River Taiko for high-risk youth at Davidson River School in Brevard, is writing his Master’s Thesis on American Taiko.
Joining Fish on stage will be pianist Melissa Lesbines, ASU graduate percussionist Tommy Smith and ASU undergraduates Tim Cockerill and Diana Loomer.
The 3 p.m. concert is free and open to the public. Donations will be accepted for the Blue Ridge Center for Integrative Musical Arts, a new Western North Carolina-based music education nonprofit corporation that Fish recently founded.
Fish, who studied concert percussion at Brevard College with Associate Professor of Music Laura Franklin, recently performed as a marimba soloist with the Appalachian Symphony Orchestra after being selected as a winner of the 2008 ASU Concerto Competition. With the help of an ASU International Student Research Grant award, he traveled to Japan last summer to study under master Taiko artist Art Lee.
Fish plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Education once he graduates from ASU in May.
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