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Private Lessons – Marimba Presentations – Conducting Clinics – Percussion Masterclasses – Drum and Orff Workshops – Music for Special Occasions

RAW-marimbafaceMike Neumeyer teaches, composes, and performs music.

Mike performs with his marimba or keyboard for private parties, weddings, and other events.  This instrument makes great background music for any occasion…

Composition is a great tool of collaboration – contact Mike if you’d like him to write anything for you!

And please read on for more information about the teaching experiences Mike has to offer!

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Private Lessons:

Mike teaches:

– percussion – marimba – vibraphone- piano – trumpet – guitar – voice – composition – music theory – recording –

Private Music Lessons available Online!  (contact Mike)  Private Music Lessons in Oak Creek, Cudahy, Franklin, Brown Deer, Mequon, Southeastern Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area!

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SAM_1628With a background in general music education as well as a college experience with high standard performance, Mike can teach someone who has never seen music in their life or a student who is looking for lessons at a higher level.

Marimba Presentations

There are not many musical sounds that are more natural and pleasing than bars of rosewood being played by soft yarn.  This is what the marimba achieves. This instrument is also very visually appealing, whether it is being played or not.  The five-octave marimba, standing 3-4 feet high and stretching just beyond 8 feet wide, can bring an audience in immediately.

Whether the students are in high school or kindergarten, the marimba is visually and sonically appealing to them.  For younger grades Mike presents the marimba as an entity in itself, teaching them about the history of the instrument, the mechanics of how it works, and engaging the students in participatory activities using movement, listening and singing.  For students in band programs, Mike focuses on playing technique while incorporating as much of the marimba possible for the circumstance at hand.

Conducting Clinics

Wouldn’t it be cool to have your students or players experience another baton?  Mike continues to build experience working with groups in WI schools.  “It is so fun to work with fresh players and it always gives me positive, high energy!”  Sometimes Mike brings his marimba and works with general music students and percussionists; then jumps on the podium for a run through of what the band is working on…

Percussion Master Classes

Do you have a percussion section that needs some entertainment?  Do they just need some pointers?  Whatever the reason, Mike loves working with percussion sections and sharing peoples’ love for hitting things!  Master classes focus on technique, tone, and musicality for all percussion instruments.  Mike can take more time on instruments that need stress for your players or just give a full tour of the section.

Mike has experience presenting percussion master classes to both middle school and high school levels at public schools in Central Wisconsin and South-Eastern Wisconsin.  Most recently, Mike presented a middle school percussion master class for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Honors Band Festival in 2009.

Drumming and Orff-Schulwerk Workshops

Mike has spent several years hand drumming and leading drum circles.  Mike is Level I certfied in the Orff-Schuwerk Approach to Music Education as well.  These two qualities help him bring any group of people together to make music around a circle of drums!

From 2007-2012, Mike led a self-proposed drumming class that he started in the Port Washington-Saukville School District’s summer school program.  He has also led several formal or informal drum circles with friends or in public teaching situations.  In 2007, he presented a drumming piece of his own at for a North Central Wisconsin Orff Chapter Workshop as an opener for presenter Margaret Jerz.

Music for Special Occasions

jims wedding marimbaMike specializes in using a piano/keyboard or the marimba to create a soothing background setting for any occasion.  With many original compositions and audience favorites to pick from, the listeners are given a familiar tapestry to fall behind their conversations.  If folks are inclined, they may watch Mike; especially when the marimba is present!  When given preparation time, arrangements of certain pieces can be requested.

Full Biography

Mike Neumeyer is a versatile musician, educator, and composer based in Milwaukee, WI.  As a composer, Mike has written with one unique focus being marimba and voice. One of Mike’s marimba and voice works, The Power of Music, was used in the documentary In Pursuit of Passion.  Mike Neumeyer’s compositions have been published by C. Alan Publications and through self-publishing.  His works have been commissioned by The UWSP Percussion Ensemble, The Oak Creek Percussion Ensemble, and various groups in Wisconsin and Washington.

Mike’s work Mikayla for euphonium and marimba was recorded and released by euphonium artist David Abellan Garcia at Banda Municipal de Musica de Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain and newest work Emergent has been premiered by Don and DJ Palmire of The US Army Pershing’s Own.  Mike’s latest recordings include “Comprovisations,” a 3-volume collection of relaxing marimba solos and “E-Miketronic Music,” an album of innovative and vintage soundscapes.  His new vibraphone solo album “Cloud Nine” recently came out in 2019, with a new marimba album “Marimba Maverick” coming out in 2020.

Mike is on faculty at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC), teaching music business, film scoring and percussion.  He is the co-caption head with The Oak Creek Marching Knights (6 consecutive year State Champions) and works with the Oak Creek-Franklin School District as a percussion specialist.  From 2014-2018 Mike acted as percussion coordinator of the UW-Milwaukee Youth Percussion Ensemble in accordance with UWM Youth Wind Ensembles.  Mr. Neumeyer has performed and presented at Percussive Arts Society events as well as the Wisconsin Music Educators Association.  Mike continues to perform marimba, vibraphone and piano at libraries, schools and private events and also plays vibraphone with jazz fusion duo “Kunsmeyer” and Hindustani trio “Maya No Maya.”

In 2007, Mike graduated with a Bachelor of Music from The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he studied voice, percussion, and music education with Dr. Robert Peavler, Robert Rosen, and Dr. Judy Bond, respectively.  During this time, Mr. Neumeyer also studied conducting with Dr. Brendan Caldwell and composition with Dr. Charles Rochester Young.  In 2011, Mike earned a Master of Music Degree in Instrumental Conducting from The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he studied with Dr. John Climer.  While at UW-Milwaukee, Mike also studied percussion with Carl Storniolo and composition with Dr. Keith Carpenter and Steve Nelson-Raney.  Mike is a Marimba One Educational Artist and endorses Encore Mallets.   www.mikeneumeyer.com

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