“Lunch Under the Pipes”
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Noon
Artist Spotlight: Sam Carullo | samcarullopercussion.com
Westminster Preservation Trust, Inc., is the proud sponsor of “Lunch Under the Pipes,” a free concert series featuring Westminster Hall’s beautifully restored 1882 Johnson Pipe organ. The concert series is open to UMB faculty, staff and students and the surrounding community. Guests are encouraged to bring their lunch; seating is provided.
The March 14 event will feature Sam Carullo, a contemporary percussionist and advocate of the creation and performance of new music. Carullo is actively commissioning and working with living composers to create new works for percussion, most recently commissioning a new work for solo marimba and electronics by Baltimore-based composer Nathaniel Parks.
Carullo also is a founding member of the Baltimore Pierrot Ensemble, a chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of new music from Baltimore-area composers. He has been recognized multiple times as a recital competition and concerto competition winner, and he was the grand prize winner of the Great Plains International Marimba Competition-Duo Division in 2019.
As an educator, Carullo has worked with students of all levels, ranging from beginners to collegiate-level musicians. He currently teaches at the Bel Air (Md.) Music Studios. He also pulls from his experience as a member of the Cavalier Drum and Bugle Corps and the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps in his work as a marching band instructor and clinician.
Carullo is pursuing his doctoral degree at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, where he studies under marimba virtuoso and percussion pedagogue Robert van Sice. Carullo holds a bachelor’s degree from Belmont University, where he studied with Dr. Christopher Norton, and a master’s degree from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, studying under van Sice.
For additional questions on “Lunch Under the Pipes” or a list of upcoming performers and dates, email info@westminsterhall.org.