Patrick Roulet, the percussion professor at Western Washington University, is a teaching artist with broad interests in symphonic percussion, jazz, and global music. He is the author of Intermediate Studies for Developing Artists on Keyboard Percussion, and 11 collections of music arranged for vibraphone and marimba including music from Ghana, Disney, the Beatles, Christmas songs, church hymns, and fiddle tunes. As a freelance classical percussionist, he has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Wadsworth Theater in Los Angeles, and the Rose Theater at New York’s Lincoln Center. He served as the principal timpanist of the Bellingham Festival of Music and has freelanced in several metropolitan areas performing with the Seattle Symphony and orchestras in Washington, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Utah. While teaching at Towson University in Baltimore, Patrick created the Colgrass Project, a collective of musicians assembled to perform and record the early percussion music of Michael Colgrass. The recording, Michael Colgrass: Percussion Music, 1951-1957 was released on the Equilibrium label and serves as a model of how the works should be performed. His research on the life and music of jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson has been referenced by jazz scholars and was featured as the cover story for Percussive Notes, the official journal of the Percussive Arts Society (PAS). Other research interests include the music and culture of the traditional xylophone of Ghana and its application to the pedagogy of the western marimba. His article, “Teaching the Marimba through West African Gyil Methodologies” (Percussive Notes, (July 2010): 16-21.) was based on his studies with Aaron Bebe Sukura at the University of Ghana. Patrick is a Yamaha Performing Artist and endorser of Grover Pro Percussion and Vic Firth and has performed and presented at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) and the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago.