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Bio
Rebecca Kite is an internationally recognized marimba soloist and teacher. She has performed in concerts, and participated in master classes, residencies, and clinics throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, Central and South America, and Japan.
Kite’s work as a marimba soloist may be heard on her two solo CD recordings, Across Time and Prism. As an educator, she has published numerous articles in Percussive Notes, the main publication of the Percussive Arts Society, and she has authored a method book, Reading Mallet Percussion Music, and edited the Anthology of Lute and Guitar Music for Marimba. Her most recent book project, Keiko Abe: A Virtuosic Life, undertaken with Abe’s permission and assistance, required six years to research and write.
In addition to her primary artistic focus as a marimbist, Kite’s timpani and percussion performance career includes positions with the Minnesota Opera Orchestra, the Plymouth Music Series Orchestra in Minnesota, as well as the Columbus, Indiana, Pro Musica Orchestra, the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, and the National Symphony of Nicaragua. Kite has performed in a variety of theatrical and Broadway show settings, as well, and is recorded on Hello Dolly, the 1996 Cast Album, with Carol Channing.
Kite pursues her interest in contemporary music by commissioning and premiering works for solo marimba. She is currently working on an extended collaboration with jazz composer Joan Griffith (the two works produced thus far are Baiao and Jazz Suite for Marimba). Other recent commissioning projects include collaborations with Bruce Hamilton(funded by an American Composers Forum Grant), which resulted in the composition, Recurrences, with Nebjosha Zivcovic, resulting in Ilijash; and with Evan Hause, resulting in the six-mallet work, Circe.
Kite studied percussion with George Gaber at Indiana University, where she received a master’s degree in percussion performance. She also undertook advanced study in timpani with Cloyd Duff, and advanced study in marimba with Keiko Abe.
Kite is the co-patentee on two U.S. patents for timpani design, from her work with GP Percussion Timpani Manufacturers, during the 1980’s.She has served on the Percussive Arts Society’s Board of Directors (1994-1997), and received the PAS Outstanding Service Award in 1999 (for her work in helping create the society’s World Percussion Network website). She was also founder and chair of the PAS Marimba Committee from 1998 to 2002. Kite resides in Leesburg, Virginia.
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