These concerts are Brian Kushmaul’s debut with the North Carolina Symphony.

Brian Kushmaul is the Principal Percussionist for the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. He regularly performs with orchestras in Buffalo, Columbus, Saint Louis, and Pittsburgh. He teaches drumming for the Chautauqua Institution’s “I Can Drum” School Residency and has also taught at the University of Evansville, University of Louisville, and University of Trinidad and Tobago. As a drumset artist he has performed with Dave Grusin, Eddie Daniels, Len Boogsie Sharpe, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, and The Phoenix Symphony, and he has recorded with the Central Standard Time Jazz Quartet and Al Sur flamenco ensemble. He currently resides in Western New York.