DRUM SCHOOL NEWS

Congratulations and Kudos to the following students:

  • Buhler High School Wind Ensemble: 1st Chair - Peter Wiens, 2nd Chair - Daniel Moore, 3rd Chair - Neil Pderson, 4th Chair - Brent Weaver

  • Hutchinson High School Wind Ensemble: 1st Chair - Maria Brockman, 2nd Chair - Eric Schmidt

  • Distrtict Band: Hutchinson High School - Eric Schmidt, Buhler High School - Mitchell Jaeger, Neil Pederson, K.T. Tucker, and Brent Weaver

  • Eric Schmidt is playing with the Hutchinson Symphony Orchestra

  • Carson Dosier is playing drumset with the Rock and Roll Strings at HMS7

  • Prosperity Concert Band: 1st Chair – Colby Dinwiddie, 2nd Chair – Lexie Bass, 3rd Chair – Kyle Doerksen, 4th Chair – Hunter McQueen.

  • Hutchinson High School: Jazz I – Eric Schmidt , Taylor Crawford (keyboards)

  • Prairie Hills Jazz Band: Jazz Arts I – Logan Cain, Kaela Janzen / Jazz Arts II - J.C. Petitjean, Logan Cain (bass)

  • Prosperity Jazz Band: Colby Dinwiddie, Lexi Bass (drums and bass)

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Ginger Zyskowski has been director of Professional Drum School in Hutchinson, Kansas, for over 25 years.

The Drum School has a roster of 60+ students ranging in age from 7 through adult and from a radius of 150 miles covering the central Kansas area.

Music Rocks! Academy 2008 - Week 1

Mission Statement

Professional Drum School offers the best percussion education available for students of any age. We provide quality instructors who teach with honesty, respect, compassion and an understanding of the student’s individual needs. The facility offers a safe and exciting environment where students can progress at their own tempo, learn skills and knowledge necessary for becoming a musician, and an opportunity to reach their maximum potential.

 

Our Instructors

Ginger Zyskowski
Ginger has been pit percussionist with Music Theater of Wichita for 15 years, and is also a member of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Newton Mid-Kansas Symphony, and is instructor of percussion at Hutchinson Community College.


 

Mark Kling
Mark has been playing for many years and comes from a family of educators. His playing experience includes concert band, performing and playing in a Christian rock group on tour. He is married, has 4 children, and is currently the drummer for the Praise Band at the Countryside Baptist Church. He also works with special needs students: ADD, ADHD. Mark will be teaching beginning and intermediate snare and drumset lessons.

Ben Eisiminger
Keyboard & Vocal Instructor
Ben Eisiminger, a Hutchinson native and former PDS student, has returned after 3 years playing and teaching professionally in Las Vegas. He has played with The Stone City Band (Rick James’s band), Toby Keith, Rodney Adkins, Lonnie Motley of Parliament Funkadelic and Kid Rock’s Band, Tim Alexander (Primus), and with members of the Blue Man Group and Cirque de Sole. In addition, Ben has performed as vocalist in Carnegie Hall (4 times), played at the Monterey Blues Festival, and has performed as an opening act for countless artists. Ben is looking forward to educating keyboard and voice students with a custom-made rounded curriculum.

Rob Gilbert
Guitar Instruction
Rob has been playing for 16 years and has been active in the music programs at Buhler High School, Hutchinson Community College, and Wichita State University. He is an active composer and teacher. He will work with all levels of players and is accomplished in all styles of music. As an educator, Rob believes that anyone interested in playing can learn the ‘gift of music’. Just be a willing student with desire to learn.

 


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Areas of Instruction

  • Drum set

  • Concert Percussion

  • Timpani

  • Mallet Keyboard

  • Ethnic Percussion

  • Percussion Ensemble

  • Music Theory


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