Drum Line Clinic

with Mr. Peter Vulperhorst

Lonate Ceppino, 28 Febbraio 2010  

Peter is a renowned and experienced percussionist who performs, composes and teaches percussion. He has performed in the musicals Copacabana, Sweet Charity, The Lion King and recently in the new musical Tarzan. Peter has worked with many top international musicians together in concerts, productions  and TV shows such as: Andrea Bocelli, Mory Kanté, the Chris Hinze Tour and the group Circle Percussion (Japanese drums). Peter has specialised in playing a large variety of percussion instruments, has his own music school and composes for many music projects.

Musical Experience:

One of the highlights for Peter this year was playing with the world famous artist Mory Kanté.( YEKE-YEKE) and his Band. Peter played African percussion in this concert.In 1995 Peter started his own percussion school Slagwerkschool-Leeuwarden. This school is one of the most important parts of The Percussion Factory, a company he started where percussion projects and events are produced. Examples include contributing performances for the opening of the Amsterdam Arena in 1996. Peter has also organized/performed several percussion projects and events in collaboration with the local theatre DE HARMONIE.

At the age of 7 Peter started to “play the drums” at the world famous Pasveerkorps in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.  His teacher at that time was Sjoerd Westra, who taught him the first tricks of the trade of percussion. These lessons are still a great source of inspiration to Peter’s musical career.  At the age of 10, his interest for percussion appeared to go further than just “drumming” and Peter started taking classes in classical and light music (pop) at the music school in Leeuwarden with master drummer Johan Faber.

Pasveerkorpsen:

Peter has been artistic leader and performer with the successful Dutch show band Pasveerkorpsen since 1990, which shows that he has not forgotten his roots. Pasveerkorpsen is known all over the world because of their unique composition and performances.  This show band performed in many world championships and has won 5 world titles (in 1989, 1993, 1997, 1998 and 2005). The Dutch magazine Slagwerkkrant has voted Pasveerkorps the Best Showband of the Benelux for the last 19 years.

Recently Pasveerkorps is asked for the International event “The BigBang” Together with number one drummer of the World “Simon Phillips” and many others they will perform in this World class Event. www.thebigbang.nl

Peter has also developed his own drum style for marching percussion.

Peter also writes percussion compositions and arrangements for his own performances as well as on assignments.

Recently Peter is the New Managing Director of Majestic Holland. Together with the Majestic Percussion team he has developed new instruments for Majestic.

You can follow Peter’s activities on the web sites at www.thepercussionfactory.nl, www.pasveer.nl and www.slagwerkschool-leeuwarden.nl. Information about the percussion group Hardware Percussion can be found at www.hardware-percussion.nl.