2022 Marimba and Vibe Duos, Gyil, Pan and North Indian Tabla
2018 Cajon Clinic and Director of the Honors Percussion Ensemble
Dr. Jason Koontz has served as Director of percussion studies at Eastern Kentucky University since 2000. He currently teaches applied percussion, percussion ensemble, percussion methods, music appreciation, world music, and directs both the EKU Percussion Ensemble and the EKU Steel Band.
He has traveled to perform and study world music/percussion in Europe (England, Holland, and Switzerland), Japan, Taiwan, Trinidad, Africa, India, Indonesia, and Brasil. Koontz has also performed with groups such as Global Rhythms, Blast, Laborie Steel Orchestra, Birdsong Steel Orchestra, Silver Stars Steel Orchestra, the Cincinnati Pops and Ballet Orchestras, Lexington Philharmonic, Richmond Symphony, Lexington Theater, the Art of Rice Traveling Theater (Indonesia), Tonus Percussion Trio, Resonance Percussion Sextet, Star of Indiana drum and bugle corps, Brass Theater, and the Southwind drum and bugle corps.
He is currently the Director of the Foster World Percussion Camp, Co-Director for the Laborie Steel Pan and Brasilian Percussion Workshop (Saint Lucia), Treasurer for the Kentucky Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society, a member of both the Percussive Arts Society, and the Kentucky Music Educators Association.
Jason is endorsed as an educational artist by Vic Firth Inc., Pearl, and Coyle Steel Drums. His compositions and arrangements for steel band and percussion ensemble are published by Row-Loff publications, Pan Ramajay Productions, and Coyle Steel Drums.