Meet the Faculty
Alison Shaw
(920) 424-7030
shawa@uwosh.edu
DMA, MM, B.M.; percussion. Prior to her appointment at Oshkosh for the fall of 2004, Dr. Shaw served on the music faculties of Michigan State University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Eastern New Mexico University, The Interlochen Center for the Arts and Musikverein und Festival in Estenfeld, Germany. Alison Shaw has established a celebrated reputation as a performing percussionist, master teacher and clinician. Having distinguished herself as an award-winning soloist, she has performed solo and chamber music throughout the United States and Europe. An advocate of contemporary chamber music, she is executive Director and Co-Founder of Quorum Chamber Arts Collective, a mixed-instrumentation sextet devoted exclusively commissioning, recording and performing new works. Shaw also tours extensively with the percussion/tuba duo, Balance, a collaboration that has produced several commissions for this unique combination, as well as transcriptions of popular and folk music. She has also served as principal percussionist with many American orchestras, including the Tucson Symphony, the Southwest Symphony, the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, and the Flint Symphony Orchestra.
She currently serves as timpanist with the Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra and tours and records as principal timpanist with the Brass Band of Battle Creek. Her recordings can be heard on the Equilibrium, Dorian, Albany, Mark, BBBC and FIM labels. Shaw earned her undergraduate degree from The University of Arizona, where she was awarded The College of Fine Arts Creative Achievement Award, and received her Masters and Doctoral degrees from The University of Michigan School of Music, where she was named The James Salmon-Charles Owen Memorial Percussion Scholar. She has served as Associate Editor of Percussive Notes, the official journal of The Percussive Arts Society (PAS), is the Chairperson of the International Percussive Arts Society College Pedagogy Committee, and also serves on the PAS Board of Directors.