610-683-4548 (voice)
610-683-1506 (fax)
Old Main, C 001
kumor@kutztown.edu

Dr. Frank Kumor is currently on the music faculty at Kutztown University where he the Assistant Director of Percussion Studies and conducts the world percussion ensemble. This ensemble specializes in the drumming of West Africa, Ghana, and Brazil. His book, co-authored with Chalo Eduardo, Drum Circle, A Guide To World Percussion, has been released by Alfred Publishing Company which features twenty-eight world percussion instruments from five continents and an interactive CD-ROM. His online clinics can be viewed at the Alfred website.

Dr. Kumor presents solo recitals and workshops as well as concerts with the Kutztown University Percussion Ensemble worldwide.  As a soloist, Dr. Kumor has performed at the Patagonia International Percussion Festival, Rio Negro, Argentina, at the Polish International Percussion Festival, Wroclaw and Opole, Poland, and has served as Artist-In-Residence at University of Montevideo, Uruguay, University of Campinas, Brazil, Kenyatta University, Kenya and Conservatorio Professional Municipale de Ribarojja, Spain.  Nationally, he has presented workshops at music educator association meetings in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Texas and at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention.   Dr. Kumor and the Kutztown University Percussion Ensemble have performed at the Puerto Rico Percussion Festival(2005), Paris International Percussion Festival(2006), College Music Society International Conference in Bangkok Thailand (2007), and in March 2008, they will be serve a week residency at the American University in Athens Greece. 

Dr. Kumor’s marching percussion activities include teaching and arranging for award winning high school and university percussion sections in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Ohio. Additionally, he annually accepts teaching invitations at marching percussion workshops and his marching percussion compositions are published in the annual Yamaha "Sounds of Summer” instructional handbook.

Dr. Kumor has composed and arranged for percussion ensemble, marching percussion and solo marimba. His compositions are published by Honey Rock Publishing. He has completed the Bachelor of Arts degree from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, the Master of Music in Music Theory from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Kumor is a Performing Artist and Clinician for Paiste Cymbals, Yamaha Percussion, Remo Percussion, Mike Balter Mallets, Silver Fox Drumsticks and Alfred Publishing Company.

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