Performer, Educator

Dan Shinohara is a percussionist currently based in Hadley, Massachusetts. He is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he is pursuing a Masters in Percussion Performance Degree while instructing the UMass Drumline alongside Thom Hannum and Ian Hale. He also performs with the UMass Marimba Band, Percussion Ensemble, and studies with Ayano Kataoka.

Dan currently serves as the Battery Caption Manager for the 7th Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps. He is also a lesson teacher and content contributor for Stryvemind, an online percussion lesson and resource platform. His previous teaching positions include being a quad tech with Vigilantes Indoor Percussion, Guardians Drum and Bugle Corps, and the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps where he was also a member of the quadline from 2015-2018 and the percussion section leader. He also was a quad tech and maintained a private lesson studio in the Timber Creek High School cluster in Keller ISD.

Instructor, Clinician

Prior to his start at UMass Amherst, Dan received his Bachelors of Music Education from the University of North Texas. Where he studied with Mark Ford, Paul Rennick, Christopher Deane, Stockton Helbing, Ed Smith, Dennis Fisher, and Dr. Nicholas Williams. While at UNT, Dan was the section leader of the UNT Drumline and Symphonic Band as well as a performing member in the PASIC Quad Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, 2 O’Clock Steel Band, and Gamelan Ensemble. 

Dan’s performance resume includes performances with the Boston Crusaders alongside the Boston Pops at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA for the DCI Tanglewood Brass Spectacular in 2015 and 2016, performing with the U.S. Air Force Band at UNT in 2018, and being a member of the Dallas Mavericks Drumline for the 2018 and 2019 NBA seasons.

Dan is a proud endorser of Vic Firth sticks and mallets and Zildjian cymbals.

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