Evan Glickman
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Evan Glickman has toured and performed music internationally and across the United States in some of the finest concert halls in the world. His specializations include orchestral percussion, twentieth-century and new music performance, and rudimental percussion. He has performed as a percussionist under the baton of some of the great conductors of our time 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, the Allentown Symphony, the United States Coast Guard Band, Orchestra Iowa, the Des Moines Symphony and Opera, and many others.
As a chamber and solo musician, Glickman has given recitals and masterclasses across the country featuring new music for percussion by living composers alongside the standard percussion repertoire of the 20th century. He has performed percussion chamber 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 has studied percussion at New York University, Rutgers University, and the University of Connecticut. His teachers include Rob McEwan, Joe Tompkins, Kyle Zerna, Mike Truesdell, Simon Boyar, and Chris Deviney.