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Several of his students have earned positions in professional orchestras. Slack has had many of his students placed in major music conservatories and universities such as the Juilliard School Indiana University School of Music and others. Slack is known among Musician for his musical interpretations of the Music of Bach having performed solo recitals of Bach?s music at Chapman University Biola University and at the Orange County High School for the Performing Arts.

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He has also been a soloist on the Pacific Symphony Pops series with the jazz vibraphone classic Midnight Sun. Additional solo appearances include the Pacific Symphony Family concerts and the New Sousa Band under the direction of Keith Brion at the Ambassador auditorium in Pasadena. He has also been featured in the Pacific Symphony Orchestra?s American Composers? Festival with internationally renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma. Slack has appeared as soloist with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra under the direction of composer/conductor John Williams in the Williams work Escapades for vibraphone and alto saxophone and also performed the work at Disneyland with the Chapman University Orchestra. Slack attended the Juilliard School of Music Pre- College Division and studied extensively with New York Philharmonic Principal Percussionist Christopher Lamb at the State University of New York at Purchase. He also performed and studied with Roland Kohlof former Principal Timpanist of the New York Philharmonic at the Waterloo Festival in New Jersey. Slack received an Orchestral Fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1989.

Slack studied with Gerald Carlyss Principal Timpanist of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Michael Bookspan Principal Percussionist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Slack received a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia the Nation?s premier music conservatory. Slack held positions as Timpanist with the Nassau Symphony on Long Island and Assistant Principal Timpanist/Percussionist with the Naples Florida Philharmonic. Previous to his position with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Mr. Broadway show productions include The Car Man Annie Evita Fosse and others. Major performances with ballet orchestras include the American Ballet Theater Joffery Ballet Bolshoi Ballet of Russia Royal Danish Ballet Dance Theater of Harlem Kirov Ballet and Miami Ballet. In addition to his work with the Pacific Symphony he has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic the San Diego Symphony Opera Pacific the Long Beach Symphony and in many Ballet performances at the Los Angeles Music Center the Kodak Theater and other venues. Winner of a national audition for a percussion position in the Pacific Symphony in 1990 he then became the Principal Percussionist in 1992. 'Every single object in the entire world can be a percussion instrument if it makes a sound that you like, all you have to do is thump it,' Skidmore added.Robert Slack is a leading Timpanist/Percussionist in the Southern California area. We're finding objects like bowls or glasses around our house that make cool and interesting sounds,' Dillion said. 'Sometimes we're building our own instruments.

Part of what makes their sound unique is the instruments they use. 'The priority for us, as best we can, is to continue to create something positive in a time when so much is difficult and challenging,' Skidmore added. Third Coast Percussion is using its north side studio to stream performances until the group can get back on the road. 'We studied this music in school and loved it and thought this should be in front of audiences outside the University, so it's fun for us to be at the vanguard of this new type of classical music.' 'We started when we were all studying at Northwestern University, that's our Chicago tie originally,' Skidmore said. The concept for their music is a bed of sound that creates a field to play in. The nominated album 'Fields' was created in collaborations with composer Devonte Hynes, better known as Blood Orange.