ABOUT THE ARTIST
Vladimir Puskovitch, percussion Vladimir Puskovitch is a freelance percussionist and music educator based out of the suburban Philadelphia area. He is the Graduate Assistant for the West Chester University percussion department, where he is pursuing a M.M. in percussion performance. Puskovitch is also a founding member of The Percussion Conservatory, a virtual platform dedicated to providing world-class percussion education to musicians all around the world. Through the PC, Puskovitch has had the opportunity to play for Shannon Wood, Becca Laurito, Ivan Trevino, Joseph Gramley, Joshua Vonderheide, and Stephen Kehner. His primary teachers have been Andre Sonner and Dr. Ralph Sorrentino. Puskovitch began performing professional while in his undergraduatestudies, playing with the St. Louis Brass Band. With this group, he travelled to the North American Brass Band Association (NABBA) Champsionships, in Huntsville Alabama, where they received the highest placement in the group’s history. He also played within the percussion section of the Belleville Philharmonic Orchestra, the nation’s second longest continuously performing ensemble (second to the NY Phil), for one year before assuming the position of principal timpanist for another. Since then, he has premiered multiple works with Sandbox Percussion, grammy-nominated percussion quartet, and has developed a passion for playing new music by living composers. He plans to premier multiple works for solo percussion in 2026, and has numerous commissions going already.
At West Chester University, Puskovitch has had the opportunity to play and learn from world-renowned percussionists: Dr. Douglass Walter, Heather Thorn, Nancy Zeltsman, and most recently accompanied the Quey Percussion Duo in their own “Circuit Breaker.” He is also the director of the Concert Percussion Ensemble at West Chester University, a group made up of both music and non-music majors, in which he hopes to inspire creative thinking and curiosity amongst collegiate musicians.