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MNPAS Drumset Day 2025
April 19 @ 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
$10 – $30
Guest Performer, Competition Judge and Clinician
Zach Miller has been a professional drummer and teacher living in Minneapolis since 2000. His diverse career spans from touring with recording artists Sara Groves and Jason Gray to performing with the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra. Beyond being a sideman for many songwriters, he writes for his own experimental instrumental projects Morning Zephyr and Put Down The Muffin. Zach supplements that with drumming on and producing albums, teaching as adjunct faculty at North Central University, and taking on the full variety of jazz, pop, and theater opportunities that fall in his lap. Thankful every day to be a musician in this city, he can’t wait to see what the future will hold.
Caitlin Halmrast Lucic
Competition Judge and clinician
Caitlin Halmrast Lucic is a percussionist, drummer and marimbist residing in the Twin Cities. She is also a music educator with over 20 years of experience teaching percussion, early childhood music and general music to learners ages infant-102. Since 2015 she has taught at MacPhail Center for Music where she is a Sing, Play, Learn with MacPhail®, School Partnerships, and MacPhail Music for Life instructor. Caitlin is also a frequent children’s music presenter, providing engaging percussion workshops/camps that focus on world music, literacy and environmental stewardship. Her children’s percussion class “Tap-Shake Scrape: It’s All Natural!” is presented frequently at MN libraries, community centers, and children’s venues.
Caitlin has performed on drums, timpani, world percussion and orchestral percussion instruments with various artists and arts organizations including Celtic Woman, Lorie Line’s Pop Chamber Orchestra, Denver & The Mile High Orchestra, Minnesota Public Radio, VocalEssence, The MN Sinfonia, Alive & Kickin’ MN, The Chanhassen Dinner Theaters, The Children’s Theatre Co., Artistry Theatre and Visual Arts, Minnetonka Arts on 7, Journey North Opera Company, Twin Cities Bronze, Light in the Well, Youth Performance Company, The Bloomington Chorale, The NOTE-ables Show Choir, Project Success, The Phipps Center for the Arts, Lyric Arts, The Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra, and various other organizations in the Twin Cities and Hartford, CT area.
Caitlin holds a M.M. degree in Percussion Performance from The Hartt School of Music and a B.M. degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She received her MN teaching license in K-12 Instrumental/Classroom Music Education from the University of MN-Twin Cities and holds certifications in The Orff-Schulwerk and The Kodaly Method. In 2018, she was awarded the James. E. Ericksen Professional Development Grant in conjunction with MacPhail Center for Music. Caitlin utilized this award to study jazz improvisation, world music, and drum set at St. Olaf College with Dr. David Hagedorn.
Chop Out Sessions
Andy lives in St Paul and teaches drum lessons, performs with various artists, and writes drum set educational material. He has 25 years of playing experience in both live and studio environments with bands and artists from all genres including jazz, metal, funk, hip hop, garage rock, avant-garde experimental and percussion ensembles. In 2022, Andy published his original Groove Manipulation drum set theory book. This book took over 15 years to develop and is appropriate for all skill levels. He has had articles and reviews published by the Percussive Art Society. He holds a Bachelor degree in music performance from Wisconsin River-Falls. He has studied with drum masters including Dave King, Dave Elitch, Joe Tomino, Gordy Knudtson, Todd Trainer, Patti Cudd, & Craig Hara. Artists you may have seen him perform with include Jake Schultz, Leslie Vincent, Rogue Valley, Mike Fisher, and Modern Monsters. Andy works full time as a Business Analyst at the University of Minnesota while teaching drum lessons at the Twin Cities Drum Collective.
9:30 AM Drumset Karaoke & Junior Division Drumset Solo Competition
11:00 AM CHOP OUT! Level I with Andy EP (Bring your drum pad and sticks)
11:30 AM Clinic Level I – Caitlin Lucic
12:30-2:30PM Open Division Drumset Competition & 10-minute Beginner Drumset Lessons
2:30 PM CHOP OUT! Level II with Andy EP (Bring your drum pad and sticks)
3:00 PM Zach Miller Level II Clinic
4:00 PM Raffle & Door Prizes
4:15 PM Drum Solo Competition Winners (1st Junior, 1st and 2nd of Open) and Zach Miller Concert
