Roger Braun

Roger Braun is Professor of Percussion at Ohio University, where he was recognized as the institutions’ Presidential Teacher in 2016. He has given numerous percussion master classes, presentations, and clinics throughout the United States, and internationally at the 2008 Seoul Drum Festival in Korea, the 2009 Cross Drumming Festival in Poland, the 2024 Edeta Arts Festival in Spain, with Galaxy Percussion throughout Japan, and adjudicated the symphonic percussion competition at the 2004 Percuba Festival in Havana, Cuba.

Braun can be heard on many recordings, including performing, directing and producing Sticks and Stones: Music for Percussion and Strings. He has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, including performances with Keiko Abe, Lyle Mays, Béla Fleck, Billy Taylor, Bob Mintzer, and Bernard Woma. He has given numerous performances at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention and performed the Schwantner Percussion Concerto in Carnegie Hall. The wide range of his work includes orchestral percussion with symphonies, world percussion with the Biakuye Percussion Group, latin jazz with Los Viejos Blanquitos, completely improvised music with Duo Unprepared, and contemporary music with Galaxy Percussion and the Ohio Percussion Collective. 

Also a composer, Roger Braun’s compositions and arrangements have been performed around the world and draw upon contemporary, jazz, and world music influences. His music is published by his company, Ohio Percussion. Braun earned his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan and his Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music where his principal teachers were Michael Udow, John Beck, and Salvatore Rabbio.