About the Artist
Vladimir Puskovitch, percussion Vladimir Puskovitch is a freelance percussionist and music educator based out of the suburban Philadelphia area. He is currently the Graduate Assistant for the West Chester University percussion department as he pursues a M.M. percussion performance degree. He will be pursuing a D.M.A. at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, where he will study with Eduardo Leandro, starting in Fall 2026. His primary teachers to this point have been Andre Sonner, Dr. Ralph Sorrentino, Chandler Beaugrand, and Dr. Matthew Lau. Puskovitch is one of twenty percussionists from around the world to be accepted into the 2026 World Percussion Group, which is about to embark on its largest European tour to date: 13 countries spanning western and eastern Europe. Puskovitch is also a founding member of The Percussion Conservatory, a virtual platform dedicated to providing worldclass percussion education to musicians all around the world. Puskovitch began performing professionally during his undergraduate studies, playing with the St. Louis Brass Band, with which he travelled to the North American Brass Band Association Championships. He also performed as a percussionist with the Belleville Philharmonic Orchestra, the nation’s second longest continuously performing ensemble (behind only the NY Philharmonic), for one year before assuming the position of principal timpanist for another. Since then he has premiered multiple works with the Grammynominated Sandbox Percussion quartet as part of the Sandbox Percussion Seminar, and he has developed a passion for playing new music by living composers. He has commissioned numerous works for solo pitched percussion and plans to pursue several non-pitched percussion commissions during his doctoral studies. Puskovitch is proudly endorsed by Artifact Percussion, a small percussion business based in central Pennsylvania, operated by WCU alum Aaron Trumbore and his wife Lexi.