Music: Mark Goodenberger

Mark Goodenberger, percussionist and composer, is the Director of Percussion Studies at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA. As percussionist with the Third Angle New Music Ensemble and timpanist with the Portland Baroque Orchestra and Trinity Consort, he is a specialist in contemporary and baroque music.

He has worked with composers such as Steve Reich, Libby Larsen, Chen Yi, Tomas Svoboda, George Crumb, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Elliott Carter, Lou Harrison, Mark Polishook, and Chinary Ung. As a concert recitalist, he has premiered many pieces of his own, written for a wide variety of instruments. His compositions bring together elements of theater, dance and vaudeville into the unrestricted world of percussion.

Mr. Goodenberger holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Lewis and Clark College and a Masters of Music in Performance degree from the University of Michigan.