Pacific Percussion Ensemble
Jonathan Latta, director
San Joaquin Delta College Percussion Ensemble
Brian Kendrick, director
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
7:30 pm
Recital Hall
Three Play (1971)
Music for Pieces of Wood (1973)
2+1 (2013)
Karen Ervin (1943–2004)
Steve Reich (b. 1936)
Ivan Trevino (b. 1983)
Motus (World Premiere) (2026)
Denkyem (2013)
Joe W. Moore III (b. 1986)
San Joaquin Delta College Percussion Ensemble
At Night (World Premiere) (2026)
Minuano (Six Eight) (1987/1992)
Pat Metheny (b. 1954) Lyle Mays (1953–2020) arr. by Robert Curnow Kamron Qasimi (b. 2005)
Rudi’s Batuque (2010)
Pacific Percussion Ensemble and San Joaquin Delta College Percussion Ensemble
Julie Hill
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Brian Kendrick is director of jazz and percussion programs at San Joaquin Delta College, teaches jazz and drum set at University of the Pacific’s Jazz Studies program, and teaches regularly at summer camps and colonies. He maintains an active performance schedule playing jazz, Broadway, contemporary, orchestra, and chamber music on the West Coast.
Kendrick has performed throughout North America and Europe. Prior to moving to Northern California, he performed and taught in Texas (San Antonio Symphony and taught various high schools throughout Dallas Metroplex, Houston, and San Antonio/Austin), Los Angeles (Symphony West), and New York (Syracuse New Music Society, Salt City Collective, Blue Norther. He was also a percussion and drum set instructor at Syracuse University. His orchestral work on the West Coast includes performing with Sacramento Philharmonic, Sacramento Chamber Orchestra, Stockton Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, Napa Symphony, Bear Valley Music Festival Orchestra, and various opera and chamber ensembles.
Kendrick is active as a clinician and adjudicator with jazz honor bands, professional organizations such as Jazz Educators Network and Percussive Arts Society, summer camps such as Cazadero Music Camp and Pacific Jazz Camp, and numerous festivals throughout the West Coast.
Kendrick is currently a sponsored artist of Zildjian Cymbals and Vater Sticks and Mallets. He holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in percussion performance from Texas Tech University and a Master of Science degree from Syracuse University.
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 is open to students of every major at University of the Pacific. Under the direction of Professor Jonathan Latta, students are presented with a wide range of percussion literature that represents diverse composers, showcases unique chamber music settings, and exposure audiences to dynamic performances of the percussive arts.
Hunter Campbell
Ryan Eads
Janae Jones
Casey Kim
Daniel Lopez
Daegan Luster
Robert McCarl
Peter Norman
Snowden Snyder
Rei Vindiola
San Joaquin Delta College Percussion Ensemble
Rose Cruz
Mia Gonzalez
Cole Long
David Namdi
Katie Neal
Frankie Peralta
David Peters, Jr.
Makenna Williamson
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