Greg Beyer

Gregory Beyer is a USAmerican percussionist, music educator, a member of Ensemble Dal Niente, and an Associate Professor/Head of Percussion Studies at Northern Illinois University, where he directs the Percussion and New Music Ensembles. An expert on contemporary music, Beyer combines multiple XXI century percussion disciplines. Greg has been performing as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe, Central America, and the United States, presenting orchestral, jazz and world music. Gregory Beyer is a contemporary music specialist who blends the disciplines of orchestral, jazz, and world music into a singular artistic voice. He is the Artistic Director of Arcomusical, a resource dedicated to the Afro-Brazilian berimbau musical bow. Beyer is a core member of the Chicago-based new music ensemble, Dal Niente. He spent the 2015-2016 year in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, teaching at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, training capoeira Angola with Contramestra Alcione Oliveira of the Capoeira Angola Dobrada Association, and working with a tremendous group of musicians, Arcomusical Brasil, with whom he traveled to Africa to present and perform at the international Bow Music Conference.