Founder and long-time faculty member of the Percussion Program at CalArts, John Bergamo (1940–2013) was a composer and performer at the forefront of the exploration of the timbral possibilities of percussion music.Forging the vocabulary of bowing, harmonics, and unconventional mallets into a body of solo and chamber works, Bergamo, who performed and recorded extensively, also significantly expanded the percussion repertoire.Tim Patterson, percussionist and student of Bergamo, presents an authoritative and authentic compendium of his teacher’s most significant works.
