Andrew Richardson

Originally from Virginia, Dr. Andrew Richardson serves as Assistant Professor of Percussion at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN. His students have gone on to successful careers as percussion specialists, band and orchestra directors, professional performers, and university professors. Andrew is published by Tapspace Publications, Marimba Publications, Inc., Boxfish Music, and in Percussive Notes, the journal of the Percussive Arts Society, and previously served as editor of the OU Percussion Press.

Andrew is an active clinician and has worked with universities and high schools throughout the central United States. He has performed and given presentations at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy, the College Music Society National Conference, Kansas and Oklahoma Music Educators Association conferences, and several PAS Days of Percussion Festivals. Andrew's writing credits include marching band percussion arrangements as well as compositions and arrangements for steel band, percussion ensemble, and solo/chamber percussion.

Andrew is serves on the Education Committee of the Percussive Arts Society, is a member of the Vic Firth Education Team and the Black Swamp Percussion Educator Network, and is a past-president of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society.

• The Small Stuff - for percussion duet https://www.tapspace.com/duets/the-small-stuff

• What a Rip! - for Steel Band https://boxfishmusic.com/products/what-a-rip-for-steelband-andrew-richardson?_pos=1&_sid=d07d2821e&_ss=r

• “Ten Tips for Teaching Timpani” Oklahoma Music; Vol. 28, No. 3; Spring 2019

• “Raymond Helble’s The Well-Tempered Marimbist: A Tool for Musical Growth” Percussive Notes; Vol. 53, No. 1, March 2015