S01E45 - Kyle Zerna

New York Philharmonic’s Assistant Principal of Timpani and
Percussion, Kyle Zerna talks about his position and audition
process.  We discussed his; transition from being a student
to immediate professional, the logistics of practicing and
learning, the organization of the percussion section, the
importance of consistency across all the nine percussion
instruments for auditions, path to choosing percussion as an
instruments and how he was consistently motivated with new
instrument discoveries within the percussion family, recent
discovery of his ability to Deejaying and the parallel to playing
percussion, timpani tuning and how his teaching has enhanced his
own playing.