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Praised as “beguiling” (Chicago Tribune) and for his “thoughtful artistry” (Chicago Classical Review), percussionist Josh Graham serves as Assistant Professor and Percussion Program Coordinator at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In addition, he serves as Executive Director and percussionist for the trio F-PLUS, Principal Percussionist of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, and regularly collaborates with the Chen String Quartet (led by Chicago Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Robert Chen).

Primarily active in the creation of new works for percussion in both solo and chamber music contexts, Dr. Graham has commissioned and premiered works by Augusta Read Thomas, Donnacha Dennehy, Jessie Montgomery, Chen Yi, George Tsontakis, and Marta Ptaszynska among many others. He has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, the National Gallery of Art, the Princeton Sound Kitchen Series, the Polish Consulate of Chicago and at dozens of universities across the country.

Dr. Graham is committed to serving the next generation as an educator. He previously taught percussion at the University of Northern Iowa, and has given percussion master classes across the country at the Universities of Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, Missouri-Kansas City, and Iowa, the Cincinnati Conservatory, among others.

He endorses Vic Firth sticks and mallets, Marimba One instruments, Zildjian Cymbals, and Black Swam Percussion.