Cindy Abts

Percussion Performance

Cindy Abts is a specialist in percussion performance and education. She currently has a private percussion studio in California's Inland Empire. Cindy has worked as a performer and educator with concert bands, jazz bands, orchestras, jazz combos, steel bands, marching bands, drumlines and drum corps. She is also the owner of Abts Mallets.

She completed her bachelor's degree in percussion performance with a minor in computer information systems at Humboldt State University and master's in percussion performance at the Ohio State University. She is currently completing her doctorate at Ball State University with a primary emphasis in percussion performance and a secondary emphasis in band conducting.

Cindy has taught percussion, jazz, music theory, music history, music technology and conducting at Dickinson State University. While she taught at DSU she also directed the jazz band, jazz combos, drumline and percussion ensemble. She has previously taught at both Ball State University and Indiana Wesleyan University.

As a performer she has played in a number of ensembles, including the Ohio State Faculty Chamber Ensemble, and orchestras in Eureka California, and Kokomo, Marion, and Muncie Indiana. She has been the principal percussionist and timpanist with the Eureka Symphony and the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra. She has worked with conductors such as Denis de Coteau and Leonard Slatkin and performed in master classes for Robert Van Sice, Katarzyna Mycka and Frederic Macarez. She has studied percussion with Jerry Steinholtz, Joe Lizama, Eugene Novotney and Erwin C. Mueller.

In 2004 Cindy was named the "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" in the College of Arts and Sciences at Dickinson State University.

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