Evan Glickman

 

Evan Glickman, DMA, serves as Assistant Professor of music at the University of Dubuque. He completed a doctor of musical arts in music performance at the University of Connecticut, earned a master of music from Rutgers University, and graduated from New York University with a bachelor’s degree in music education. Glickman has toured and performed music on five continents in some of the finest concert halls in the world from Germany to Argentina to Japan. His specializations include orchestral percussion, twentieth-century and new music performance, and marching percussion. He has performed as a percussionist under the baton of some of the great conductors of our time including Bramwell Tovey and Ken-David Masur and has appeared onstage with soloists including Yefim Bronfman, Wynton Marsalis, Sergei Babayan, and Pinchas Zuckerman.


Glickman has served as principal percussionist of the New Bedford Symphony in Massachusetts since 2019, receiving tenure in 2021. He performs frequently with professional orchestras across the northeast and midwest including the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Allentown Symphony, United States Coast Guard Band, Orchestra Iowa, and the Des Moines Symphony and Opera.

As a chamber musician, Glickman has performed music across the northeast featuring works by twentieth- and twenty-first-century composers. He has performed percussion ensemble concerts as part of New Music series with the Hartford Symphony and the New Bedford Symphony, including a nationally broadcast performance in June 2021 as part of the annual League of American Orchestras conference.

Glickman’s teachers include Rob McEwan, Joe Tompkins, Kyle Zerna, Mike Truesdell, and Chris Deviney.