Jon Weber

ABOUT

Jon Weber is Instructor of Percussion at the Michigan State University College of Music, where he teaches applied percussion lessons, percussion ensemble, salsa band, and the award-winning Michigan State Drumline. He has presented and performed throughout the U.S. as well as in Colombia, Cuba, and Taiwan. Weber has presented clinics at the Collegiate Band Directors National Association Symposium, Taiwan World Percussion Championship, Music for All Summer Symposium, and at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. The MSU Percussion Ensemble, with Weber as co-director, was selected to perform at the 2013, 2017, and 2025 Percussive Arts Society International Conventions. Weber has performed with the Flint, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Midland, Ann Arbor, and Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestras, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the New York Solsti Orchestra, and the Santa Clara Vanguard. Weber has performed multiple concerti, including Adam Schoenberg’s concerto Losing Earth with the MSU Wind Symphony. Weber appears on a variety of recordings from world fusion to chamber music. He has enjoyed performing percussion with the H2 saxophone quartet over the years, including at The Midwest Clinic. In 2009, he founded the Michigan State University salsa band, Salsa Verde; he still directs and performs in this ensemble. He currently performs on drumset/timbales with the salsa band Orquesta Ritmo.

Weber is the Percussion Division Coordinator for the Music for All Summer Camp and heads the percussion faculty for the Performing Arts Camp at Michigan State University. With the MSU Drumline, he has performed at Carnegie Hall, Times Square in New York City, The World Percussion Championship in Taiwan, the Bands of America Grand National Championships, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the Mid-Europe Festival in Austria, and wherever the Spartans play football, including the Rose Bowl in 2014. Weber’s pieces X and Machine are published by Tapspace Percussion. His arrangements and compositions for drumline have been performed by university, high school, WGI, NFL, NHL, MLB, and NBA drumlines across the country. Weber is a Yamaha Performing Artist and a Tapspace Artist, and proudly endorses Zildjian, Vic Firth, and Remo products.