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Jon Weber (Lansing, MI) is Instructor of Percussion at the Michigan State University College of Music, where he has taught applied percussion lessons, percussion ensemble, salsa band, and the award-winning Michigan State Drumline since 1996. He has performed, adjudicated, and presented clinics throughout the United States and in Colombia, Cuba, and Taiwan. With the MSU Drumline, he has presented performances at Carnegie Hall, Taiwan, the Bands of America Grand National Championships, Times Square, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, and wherever the Spartans play football, including the Rose Bowl in 2014. Weber heads the percussion faculty for the Bands of America Summer Camp, the Performing Arts Camp at Michigan State University, and has served as clinician with the Yamaha Sounds of Summer Program and the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps Summer Education Camp from 2015 to 2017. The MSU Percussion Ensemble, with Weber as co-director, was selected to perform at the 2013, 2017, and 2025 Percussive Arts Society International Conventions. Weber has performed with the Grand Rapids, Lansing, Flint, Midland, Saginaw, and New York Solstice Orchestras, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and the Santa Clara Vanguard. With salsa groups Orquesta Ritmo and Salsa Verde, he regularly performs on drum set and timbales. Weber was composer and artistic director of the Detroit Pistons Drumline from 2006 to 2010. His compositions and arrangements have been performed by university, high school, WGI, NFL, and NBA drumlines across the United States. Weber is a Yamaha Performing Artist. He lives in Lansing, Michigan, with his wife, Molly, and sons, Walden and Griffin.