Career
John Wooton marched in the snare line [1] of the Phantom Regiment from 1981 to 1984. [2] During his time in the corps he won the Drum Corps Midwest Individual Snare Drum title and the Percussive Arts Society Snare Drum Individual title [3] in 1983. [4] He attended the University of Louisiana Lafayette and earned a Bachelor of Music in 1985. [5] Wooton returned to the Phantom Regiment to be the percussion caption head from 1987 to 1989. [4] He received his Masters of Music from the University of North Texas in 1988 and his Doctor of Musical Arts in 1994 from University of Iowa. [5] From 1988 to 1992,Wooton served as percussion coordinator/pep band director for the University of Iowa.
Wooton has served as the president of the Mississippi chapter of the Percussive Arts Society and was a member of the Marching Percussion Committee from 1990 to 2012. [6]
He has been a professor of music at the University of Southern Mississippi since 1992,where he teaches Applied Percussion,Percussion Ensemble,Steel Pan Orchestra,Percussion Methods,Percussion Arranging and Composing,Percussion Pedagogy,Graduate Percussion Ensemble,and Samba Band. [5] He currently serves as the Director of Percussion Studies. [2]
In 1992 he published his book,The Drummer's Rudimental Reference Book. [7] He followed with a book and DVD combo in 2010 called Dr. Throwdown's Rudimental Remedies. [8] He has published around 10 other musical works for percussion with Row Loff Productions over his career. [9]
Wooton leads a steel band called Kaiso and frequently plays with the Southern Miss Jazz Quintet. [10] He has been associated with five National Champion drum lines,including the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the University of North Texas. [2]
He is a former endorser of Sabian cymbals and current endorser of Zildjian cymbals,Pearl drums,Remo drum heads,and Vic Firth sticks;he is also a member of the Vic Firth Education Team. [11]
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