Percussion Ensemble
Jonathan Latta, director
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
7:30 pm
Faye Spanos Concert Hall
NOVEMBER 11, 2025, 7:30 PM
Entourage (2016) Joe W. Moore III (b. 1986)
(2002)
Toccata (1954)
Allegro, sempre gusto
Largo
Allegro un poco marziale
Kibo (2017)
Fiesta Colores (2020)
Casey Kim, snare drum
Emmanuel Séjourné (b. 1961)
Carlos Chávez (1899–1978)
Andrea Venet (b. 1983)
Nils Rohwer (b. 1965)
Largo (from the New World Symphony) (1893/1935)
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
arr. Clair Omar Musser
Press (2018/2021)
Devonté Hynes (b. 1985)
arr. Third Coast Percussion
ARTIST
Jonathan Latta is an associate professor of practice in percussion and program director of ensembles at University of the Pacific. He has also maintained an active performing career as a percussionist, having performed with the Stockton Symphony, Modesto Symphony, and Sacramento Philharmonic and serving as principal for the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra in Durango, Colorado. Prior to moving to California in 2014, Latta was director of percussion studies for six years at Fort Lewis College in Durango, teaching applied percussion, percussion ensemble, non-Western music, orchestration, and jazz. Latta was chair of the University Pedagogy Committee for the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) for six years as well as a member of the PAS Education Committee.
From 2002 to 2006, Latta was a member of the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West, performing in over three hundred performances on percussion/timpani for their Concert Band, drum set for the Commanders Jazz Ensemble, marching percussion for the Ceremonial Band, and drum set for the Golden West Dixie Ramblers. These performances included the 2003 Tournament of Roses Parade, the 2004 Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, and the interment of former President Ronald W. Reagan. Latta has performed as a chamber musician in the Durango Chamber Music Festival, the Animas Music Festival, and at the Percussive Arts Society International Conference. In 2019 Latta performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall with Pacific’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Most recently, Latta has been heard as a soloist and helped produce the Pacific Wind Bands’ recording, From a Deep Blue Sky (2024).
PACIFIC PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
Pacific Percussion Ensemble is open to students of every major at University of the Pacific. Under the direction of Jonathan Latta, students are presented with a wide range of percussion literature that represents diverse composers, showcases unique chamber music settings, and exposes audiences to dynamic performances of the percussive arts.
Hunter Campbell
Ryan Eads
Janae Jones
Casey Kim
Daegan Luster
Daniel Lopez
Robert McCarl
Peter Norman
Snowden Snyder
Ti’Anna Thomas
Rei Vindiola
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