Assistant principal timpani/section percussion with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Steve Hearn is also a founding member of the Lumos Percussion Group and the former principal timpanist of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. He has appeared with the Strings in the Mountains, Grand Teton, and Cabrillo music festivals and has been a featured concerto soloist with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, among others.
Hearn previously held the position of percussionist/timpanist in the United States Army Field Band in Washington, D.C. and has performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, European Mozart Festival Orchestra in Krakow, Poland, Rotterdam Kamerorkest “Continuo”, Holland, and the Alabama and Nashville symphony orchestras among others.
Active as an educator, he was the assistant to Robert van Sice at Rotterdam’s Conservatory of Music and was the director of percussion studies at New Mexico State University.
As a drum set specialist, he has performed various styles of jazz and rock throughout the Chicago area with the Ramesdell Jazz Quintet and the pop/rock group The Others.
Hearn received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of New Mexico, a Master of Music degree from New Mexico State University and the Artist Performing Diploma from Rotterdam’s Conservatory in the Netherlands. Hearn is an artist/clinician for Adams Musical Instruments, Zildjian Cymbals, Freer Percussion Products, TheBoxKit.com, and Evans Drumheads. www.hearndrum.com