Current Performing Members
Name: Alissa Abad
Grade: Senior
Major: Math Secondary Education
Fun Fact: One summer I biked for 10 miles on the spur of the moment. And then I had to bike 10 miles back...
Why I Love Taiko: Stress-reliever. Intense, but beautiful.
Grade: Senior
Major: Math Secondary Education
Fun Fact: One summer I biked for 10 miles on the spur of the moment. And then I had to bike 10 miles back...
Why I Love Taiko: Stress-reliever. Intense, but beautiful.
Name: Mike Smith
Grade: Senior
Major: Music Education
Fun Fact: I'm a magician.
Why I Love Taiko: I really enjoy it because it helps me express myself with music in ways I can't with my trumpet or other melodic instruments.
Grade: Senior
Major: Music Education
Fun Fact: I'm a magician.
Why I Love Taiko: I really enjoy it because it helps me express myself with music in ways I can't with my trumpet or other melodic instruments.
Name: Mariko Curran
Grade: Junior/Class of 2013
Major: English
Fun Fact: I've been told by several different people that I look like Reese Witherspoon. Not sure how that works out.
Why I Love Taiko: I like its capacity for simultaneous pulse and line, for thunder and fluidity. It also roots me to something in the past, somehow -- my own ancestry and otherwise.
Grade: Junior/Class of 2013
Major: English
Fun Fact: I've been told by several different people that I look like Reese Witherspoon. Not sure how that works out.
Why I Love Taiko: I like its capacity for simultaneous pulse and line, for thunder and fluidity. It also roots me to something in the past, somehow -- my own ancestry and otherwise.
Name: Chelsea Cortese
Grade: Sophomore
Major: Music Education
Fun Fact: I'm scared of ferris wheels!!
Why I Love Taiko: After a long day of classes and sitting in lecture after lecture, it's fun to hit something!
Grade: Sophomore
Major: Music Education
Fun Fact: I'm scared of ferris wheels!!
Why I Love Taiko: After a long day of classes and sitting in lecture after lecture, it's fun to hit something!
Name: Jeffrey Duncan Lutley
Grade: Sophomore
Major: Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing / English
Fun Fact: I can't hear much in my right ear.
Why I love Taiko: Experiencing taiko in person is powerful because of the sheer volume of the drums
Grade: Sophomore
Major: Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing / English
Fun Fact: I can't hear much in my right ear.
Why I love Taiko: Experiencing taiko in person is powerful because of the sheer volume of the drums
Name: Louis Delia
Grade: Sophomore
Major: Interdisciplinary Business and Music - Guitar
Fun Fact: I have Perfect Pitch.
Why I Love Taiko: It's both a great outlet from schoolwork and a place for me to better myself as a performer. Plus, there are drums. 'Nuff said.
Grade: Sophomore
Major: Interdisciplinary Business and Music - Guitar
Fun Fact: I have Perfect Pitch.
Why I Love Taiko: It's both a great outlet from schoolwork and a place for me to better myself as a performer. Plus, there are drums. 'Nuff said.
Name: Frank Liu
Grade: Junior
Major: Biology
Fun fact: I drove across the continental US from WA to NJ.
Why I Love Taiko: It looks really cool.
Grade: Junior
Major: Biology
Fun fact: I drove across the continental US from WA to NJ.
Why I Love Taiko: It looks really cool.
Name: Karen Wang
Grade: Freshman
Major: Accounting
Fun Fact: I have perfect pitch
Why I Love Taiko: The rhythms and choreography are awesome!
Grade: Freshman
Major: Accounting
Fun Fact: I have perfect pitch
Why I Love Taiko: The rhythms and choreography are awesome!
Name: Willian Hua
Grade: Class of 2015
Major: Computer Science
Fun Fact: I am related to Mulan!
Why I Love Taiko: Banging on Drums!!! Pwnt...
Grade: Class of 2015
Major: Computer Science
Fun Fact: I am related to Mulan!
Why I Love Taiko: Banging on Drums!!! Pwnt...
Name: Eric Schmitt
Grade: Freshman
Major: Undeclared
Fun Fact: All of the matter that comprises the human race could be condensed to the size of a sugar cube.
Why I Love Taiko: Drummer at heart.
Grade: Freshman
Major: Undeclared
Fun Fact: All of the matter that comprises the human race could be condensed to the size of a sugar cube.
Why I Love Taiko: Drummer at heart.
Name: Amy Chen
Grade: Class of 2015
Major: English
Fun Fact: I have a birthmark shaped like the United States (Hawaii included!)
Why I Love Taiko: There's so much energy involved that it always transforms into a really dynamic performance!
Grade: Class of 2015
Major: English
Fun Fact: I have a birthmark shaped like the United States (Hawaii included!)
Why I Love Taiko: There's so much energy involved that it always transforms into a really dynamic performance!
