Dr. Thom Hasenpflug  - Bio   Thom Hasenpflug is nationally recognized as a unique performer and educational voice, while his compositions for percussion receive international recognition and are played all over the world. Currently the Director of Percussion studies at Idaho State University, he has held prior teaching posts at Drake University, the University of South Dakota, and Emporia State University.   Dr. Hasenpflug has presented performances, clinics and masterclasses at many universities, high schools, and festivals, for several Percussive Arts Society chapter days of percussion and at the 2005 PAS International Convention. He has also judged several contests for the Percussive Arts Society. As a composer, he has been commissioned by some of the field’s leading percussionists, and has received top awards in the 1995 PAS composition contest for South of Jupiter, as well as receiving the Louis Smadbeck prize for Six Bagatelles. Euonymus Alatus, a new commission for large percussion ensemble, received its world premiere at the 2006 PASIC in Austin, Texas. Other recent international performances of his works have occurred in London, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Dublin, Rio de Janiero, Venezuela, and Sweden, by various percussion groups / individuals of note. He has performed as a member of numerous symphonies, including acting as principal timpanist in the South Dakota Symphony, and has fronted the Hasenproject percussion group, whose album “Compercussions” has received critical acclaim.   Born in 1966, he received his Degrees in percussion and composition from Ithaca College and the University of Colorado, having studied with Gordon Stout, Doug Walter, Greg Woodward, Joe Lukasik, Bill Molenhof, and Dana Wilson. Dr. Hasenpflug has percussion works published through KPP-Malletech, Go Fish Music, and C. Alan Publications, as well as his own label, “Hasenworks.” He is an endorser of Pro-Mark Sticks and Mallets and Sabian Cymbals.