BETH GOTTLIEB is a
performer, teacher, clinician, and soloist.
She
is the Percussion Professor and head of the Percussion Studio at
Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. She is also Principal
Timpanist with the Bach Festival Orchestra (who with in 1999,
she performed a World Premier of Stella Sung's "Rhapsody for
Marimba", and in the summer of 2001 did a European tour with the
Rosauro marimba concerto), Principal Percussionist with the Walt
Disney World Symphony Orchestra, and percussionist with many
touring artists, shows, and recording projects. She has
performed and/or recorded with Andy Williams, Henry Mancini,
Peabo Byrson, Celine Dion, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Lawrence and
Eydie Gorme, Natalie Cole, Gary Sinise, Shirley Jones, Tony
Bennett, Sandi Patti, Roger Williams, Carol Channing, Kansas,
Milton Berle, Henny Youngman, Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea,
Johnny Mathis and many more. Beth is a Featured Artist
Conductor/Clinician for Walt Disney World's Magic Music Days
program. She has conducted hundreds of bands and orchestras from
all over the U.S. for the “Your Instrumental� workshop.
Through the community school at Rollins, Beth runs group
percussion lessons on Monday's and has 48 students from ages
11-18 in six classes.
Beth
taught percussion at the renowned Interlochen Center for the
Arts in Michigan in the summers from 1992-1998. In subsequent
summers, Beth and husband Danny Gottlieb toured Europe with
singer Bobby McFerrin (Don't Worry, Be Happy), performed a duet
concerts and clinics at the Rhythm Sticks Festival in Royal
Festival Hall, London, England, Norwegian Jazz Camp in
Kristiansand, Norway, at the Latvian International Music
Festival in Jurmala, Latvia and other sites in Europe. Beth and
Danny also performed with the Gil Evans Jazz Orchestra in
Holland and Italy, and had their own band perform in Sweden. In
the summer of 2004,
Beth
was the Music Director for Microsoft's annual convention of
20,000 employees from around the world. She conducted, produced,
arranged the music, and organized a 90 member Drum Line that
performed at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta with Bill Gates. This
upcoming summer, 2005, the Gottlieb's will be performing with
Gary Sinise in the Lt. Dan band on a European tour of the USO
bases, culminating with a concert in Washington DC on national
televsision.
Beth
is an active clinician and adjudicator, including FBA (Florida
Bandmaster's Association) State Solo and Ensemble Festival, and
many national band and orchestra festivals. She has had
experience in the work of "TOTAL" percussion, from: marching
snare drum in Tom Float's "Spirit of Atlanta" Drum Line, to
playing timpani and percussion in orchestra's, Broadway shows,
commercials, churches, movie soundtracks, to being a
percussionist in Epcot's Future Corps, Future World Brass, Epcot
Pops, and The World Dancer's Show Band, to playing drum set and
hand percussion in a variety of commercial venues, to performing
solo marimba concerts all over the U.S. She is the past
President of the Florida Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society
and was the host of the International Percussive Arts Society
Convention (PASIC) in Orlando in 1998. Beth is on the PAS
National Marimba committee, the MTNA membership committee, and
the Florida Bandmasters Association (FBA) music list committee.
Mrs. Gottlieb is an artist/clinician for the
Musser/Ludwig,
Zildjian, Grover, Remo and Innovative Percussion Companies. She
holds a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music
where she studied with John Beck, and a Bachelor of Music degree
from the University of Alabama, where she studied with Larry
Mathis. Beth is an avid runner, having been featured in Runner's
World, Glamour, and Woman's Day magazines. She is married to
Danny Gottlieb and has two sons, Brian and Scotty Radock, both
aspiring young percussionists.
She
is the Percussion Professor and head of the Percussion Studio at
Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. She is also Principal
Timpanist with the Bach Festival Orchestra (who with in 1999,
she performed a World Premier of Stella Sung's "Rhapsody for
Marimba", and in the summer of 2001 did a European tour with the
Rosauro marimba concerto), Principal Percussionist with the Walt
Disney World Symphony Orchestra, and percussionist with many
touring artists, shows, and recording projects. She has
performed and/or recorded with Andy Williams, Henry Mancini,
Peabo Byrson, Celine Dion, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Lawrence and
Eydie Gorme, Natalie Cole, Gary Sinise, Shirley Jones, Tony
Bennett, Sandi Patti, Roger Williams, Carol Channing, Kansas,
Milton Berle, Henny Youngman, Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea,
Johnny Mathis and many more. Beth is a Featured Artist
Conductor/Clinician for Walt Disney World's Magic Music Days
program. She has conducted hundreds of bands and orchestras from
all over the U.S. for the “Your Instrumental� workshop.
Through the community school at Rollins, Beth runs group
percussion lessons on Monday's and has 48 students from ages
11-18 in six classes. 
Beth
taught percussion at the renowned Interlochen Center for the
Arts in Michigan in the summers from 1992-1998. In subsequent
summers, Beth and husband Danny Gottlieb toured Europe with
singer Bobby McFerrin (Don't Worry, Be Happy), performed a duet
concerts and clinics at the Rhythm Sticks Festival in Royal
Festival Hall, London, England, Norwegian Jazz Camp in
Kristiansand, Norway, at the Latvian International Music
Festival in Jurmala, Latvia and other sites in Europe. Beth and
Danny also performed with the Gil Evans Jazz Orchestra in
Holland and Italy, and had their own band perform in Sweden. In
the summer of 2004,
Beth
was the Music Director for Microsoft's annual convention of
20,000 employees from around the world. She conducted, produced,
arranged the music, and organized a 90 member Drum Line that
performed at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta with Bill Gates. This
upcoming summer, 2005, the Gottlieb's will be performing with
Gary Sinise in the Lt. Dan band on a European tour of the USO
bases, culminating with a concert in Washington DC on national
televsision.
Beth
is an active clinician and adjudicator, including FBA (Florida
Bandmaster's Association) State Solo and Ensemble Festival, and
many national band and orchestra festivals. She has had
experience in the work of "TOTAL" percussion, from: marching
snare drum in Tom Float's "Spirit of Atlanta" Drum Line, to
playing timpani and percussion in orchestra's, Broadway shows,
commercials, churches, movie soundtracks, to being a
percussionist in Epcot's Future Corps, Future World Brass, Epcot
Pops, and The World Dancer's Show Band, to playing drum set and
hand percussion in a variety of commercial venues, to performing
solo marimba concerts all over the U.S. She is the past
President of the Florida Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society
and was the host of the International Percussive Arts Society
Convention (PASIC) in Orlando in 1998. Beth is on the PAS
National Marimba committee, the MTNA membership committee, and
the Florida Bandmasters Association (FBA) music list committee.
Musser/Ludwig,
Zildjian, Grover, Remo and Innovative Percussion Companies. She
holds a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music
where she studied with John Beck, and a Bachelor of Music degree
from the University of Alabama, where she studied with Larry
Mathis. Beth is an avid runner, having been featured in Runner's
World, Glamour, and Woman's Day magazines. She is married to
Danny Gottlieb and has two sons, Brian and Scotty Radock, both
aspiring young percussionists.