John Lane
Contact Information
John Lane
Percussion Area Coordinator
Phone: (936) 294-3593
Office: Music 224
E-mail: jwl002@shsu.edu
Profile of John Lane
John Lane is the Assistant Professor of Percussion at Sam Houston State University. John teaches applied percussion and directs the SHSU Percussion Ensemble and Steel Band. Prior to his appointment at Sam Houston State, John served as Interim Professor of Percussion at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, WY. He has been recognized nationally and internationally as a clinician, solo recitalist, and chamber musician specializing in the performance and creation of new music. He performed recently on a tour of Japan, performing in Hokuto City and Nagoya as part of the Hokuto International Music Festival with PULSUS, a newly formed percussion group. As a solo performer and with the Bain Percussion Group, he has appeared at several Percussive Arts Society International Conventions. He has also been featured as a performer in the Van Cliburn Foundation’s concert series Modern at the Modern at the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, TX.
As a composer, his works have been featured on the Sonic Explorations concert series, the Music and Time Arts Series, the MUSIC X new music festival at the Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, the Loeffler New Music Symposium at Chico State University in California, and at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center. One of his works using graphic notation, Sparrow Song, was recently published in the book, Notations 21 (New York: Mark Batty Publishers, 2008). His interdisciplinary collaborative work with Ann McCutchan (Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas) was given a featured performance at the Blurred Edges Interdisciplinarity conference at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD.
John has recorded for the Klavier and GIA record labels with the North Texas Wind Symphony and has performed and recorded alongside artists such as Keiko Abe, William Cahn, Christopher Deane, Mark Ford, and Allen Otte. His work can be heard on the television series, Wyoming Voices, on Wyoming Public Television. His writings have been published in Windsong, 21st-Century Music, Texas Band Master’s Review and Percussive Notes. He is currently completing his DMA at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and holds degrees from the University of North Texas and Stephen F. Austin State University.