Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 382 - Olivia Kieffer (Part 2)

Pete's Percussion Podcast - Pete Zambito

Grand Valley State University (MI) Visiting Professor of Music Theory, Composer, Educator and Percussionist Olivia Kieffer returns to talk about heading to Georgia State for her percussion masters degree, working with Chix with Stix, and teaching and freelancing in the Atlanta area (02:45), making the decision to pursue grad degrees in composition and heading to UW-Milwaukee for her masters (18:25), doing her doctorate at the University of Miami (FL) and demonstrating all of the toy pianos in her studio for the podcast (23:00), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on preparing students for the future, navigating the percussion and composition world as a woman, great movies, The Green Bay Packers, stories from doing karaoke, and the TV series Planet Earth 3 (40:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 film Somewhere in Queens (01:12:40).

Olivia Kieffer Links:

Part 1 with Olivia Kieffer

Olivia Kieffer’s GVSU page

Olivia Kieffer’s homepage

Toy Piano Chamber Music Database

“Nobility of the Homophones” - Olivia Kieffer

“The Texture of Activity” - Olivia Kieffer

“Playing the Changes” - Olivia Kieffer

Other Links:

Stewart Gerber

Jim Culley

Allen Otte

Chix with Stix Percussion Group

Lisa Gillespie

Lisa Morris

Michael Rosen

eyedrum

Reinhardt Contemporary Arts Festival

Great Noise Ensemble

Marc Mellits

Lansing McLoskey

Dana Kaufman

Elizabeth A. Baker

A Little Bit Culty podcast

Johanna Beyer

Maestro trailer

Mission Impossible 2 trailer

End of Mahler 2 conductors

Dune - Frank Herbert

The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls

“Time After Time” - Cyndi Lauper

“Moon River” - Andy Williams

“Bullet the Blue Sky” - U2

Planet Earth 3 trailer

Raves:

Somewhere in Queens trailer