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Mr. Wayne BovenschenMr. Wayne Bovenschen

Associate Professor of Percussion
Assistant Director of Bands
wayne.bovenschen@okstate.edu
405-744-8983
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Wayne Bovenschen is Assistant Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Percussion at Oklahoma State University. In this capacity, he instructs the Concert Percussion Ensemble, Marching Percussion Ensemble, studio lessons, percussion techniques class, assists with the Cowboy Marching Band, directs the OSU Spirit Bands at Men's and Women's basketball games, and co-sponsor of the Alpha Chapters of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma. A graduate of Michigan State University, Mr. Bovenschen holds a Bachelor of Music Education and a Master of Music in Applied Percussion.

Since 2005, Mr. Bovenschen has served as the music director for the Stillwater Community Band. He has also conducted high school and junior high honor bands throughout Oklahoma. The OSU Concert Percussion Ensemble was selected as one of two university ensembles to present a showcase concert at the 1996 Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in Nashville, Tennessee. The OSU Marching Percussion Ensemble has also participated in the PASIC Marching Percussion Forum six times placing as high as second in 2001.

As an arranger, Mr. Bovenschen has written over 400 percussion scores for high school and college marching bands and drum & bugle corps across the country. He has also written full band arrangements for college bands in Oklahoma and Texas and has been published by Drop6 Media and Arrangers Publishing, Inc.

Mr. Bovenschen's prior teaching experience includes percussion instructor for the Michigan State University Spartan Percussion Section, Lansing Community College, Northern Aurora, Suncoast Sound, and Black Gold Drum and Bugle Corps. He has performed with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra and the Cavaliers and Phantom Regiment Drum & Bugle Corps. Mr. Bovenschen is also a member of the Percussive Arts Society serving as a member of the International Percussion Ensemble Committee and twice as president of the Oklahoma Chapter, International Association of Rudimental Percussionists, MENC, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and serves as a clinician for Ludwig Industries and Vic Firth, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 
 

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