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Chris Brooks
Chris Brooks is Vice-President of Row-Loff
Productions, a percussion publishing
company he co-founded with Chris Crockarell
in 1990. With hundreds of titles on prescribed
music lists in nine states, Row-Loff began
with marching percussion ensembles,
expanded into concert percussion literature
in 1993, and added solos along with a wide
selection of instruction books. Known for its
clever parodies of pop culture in its
marketing CDs, Row-Loff was one of the first
in the percussion industry to use audio
examples to promote its music.
Chris Brooks
A 1974 graduate of McGavock High School in
Nashville, Brooks began playing drums
professionally at age 16. From his jingle work
in the recording studio to his live
performances with artists such as Toni
Tennille, the Smothers Brothers and Lucie
Arnaz, these musical experiences influenced
Brooks as he began composing percussion
ensembles.
Chris Brooks
Brooks, along with partner Crockarell, writes
about two-thirds of Row-Loff's percussion
catalog. He has written over six dozen
original ensembles - including Millennium,
performed at Carnegie Hall in March 2013 by
the Monterey High School Percussion
Ensemble from Lubbock, Texas - co-written
several dozen more, and arranged over 30
pieces for percussion. Brooks and Crockarell
also wrote and released The Snare
Drummer's Toolbox (The Absolute Method
for Snare Drum) in 2010.
Chris Crockarell
Crock has been playing drums since the 5th
grade when he received his first Slingerland
blue-sparkle snare drum. He attended
McGavock HS in Nashville, TN in the late 70's,
around the time that Drum Corps was really
catching on. He marched with the Madison
Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps in '81 & '82 and
attended North Texas State University, (later
renamed UNT).
Chris Crockarell
In 1990, seeing a void in entertaining yet
educational percussion literature, he and
business partner, Chris Brooks, co-founded
Row-Loff Productions. RLP soon became the
global publishing leader in percussion
literature. Since that time Crock has written
and arranged marching and concert
percussion for Row-Loff as well as Arranger's
Publishing Company.
Brian S. Mason
Dr. Brian S. Mason, Associate Professor of
Percussion at Morehead State University, is a
highly respected innovator of the
contemporary marching percussion
ensemble. His career in the DCI activity
spanned more than two decades, claiming
numerous awards and honors with the
Cavaliers, Phantom Regiment, and the Santa
Clara Vanguard. In high demand as a
clinician, performer, and adjudicator, he has
appeared throughout the United States, Asia,
Europe, Canada, and Mexico, and his
compositions have been performed around
the world.
Brian S. Mason
Currently, Brian coordinates the percussion
studies program at Morehead State
University in Morehead, KY and also directs
the award-winning Marching Percussion
Ensemble, featured on VicFirth.com in a webbased instructional video series, Marching
Percussion 101. At MSU, he performs with the
Faculty Jazz Ensemble, the Faculty Chamber
Ensemble, and the Faculty Brass Quintet.
Off-campus, he is a contract section player
with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra,
and appears as a guest artist with high school
and university percussion ensembles across
the US.
Brian S. Mason
Brian received his D.M.A. and B.M. as a
student of James B. Campbell at the
University of Kentucky, and his M.M. at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a student
of Dr. Dean Gronemeier. He is a member of
the Percussive Arts Society Board of
Directors, Vic Firth Education Committee, the
P.A.S. Health and Wellness Committee, and
the P.A.S. Marching Percussion Committee.
Brian has published articles in Percussive
Notes, has been interviewed in Modern
Drummer and Band and Orchestra Magazine,
and co-authored the 2000 Modern Drummer
Readers Poll's "No. 1 Drum Set Method
Book," The Commandments of R&B
Drumming (Warner Brothers).
Brian S. Mason
Brian received his D.M.A. and B.M. as a Brian
is a performing artist for Mapex Drums, and
Majestic Percussion, Vic Firth sticks and
mallets, Zildjian cymbals, Evans drumheads,
and Grover Pro Percussion, and his original
works are published through Row-Loff
Productions, Bachovich Music Publications,
and Tap Space Publications.
Artistic Ethics
I will respect my
audience regardless of
size or station.
Artistic Ethics
The Show Must Go On!
I will never miss a
performance.
Artistic Ethics
I shall play every
performance to the
best of my ability,
regardless of how
small my role or large
my personal problems.
Artistic Ethics
I shall never miss an
entrance by my failure
to be ready.
Artistic Ethics
I shall forego all social
activities which
interfere with
rehearsals and always
be on time.
Artistic Ethics
I shall never leave until
I have completed my
performance.
Artistic Ethics
I shall accept the
director’s advice in the
spirit in which it is given
for he sees the
production as a whole
and my role as a portion
thereof.
Artistic Ethics
I shall respect the music
and the composer,
remembering that “A work
of art is not a work of art
until it is finished.”
Artistic Ethics
I shall direct my efforts in
such a manner that when I
leave this organization it
will stand as a greater
institution for my having
labored there.