Steve Kurilla — Percussion

For over 20 years, Steve has been playing drum set and percussion in regional concert halls, jazz clubs, casinos, and universities. He currently performs with Wade Preston — pianist and Broadway star of Billy Joel's musical Movin' Out; Marko Marcinko — Director of Jazz Studies at Penn State University; Dave Jumper and the Voodoo Barbeque Brass Band — a recent headlining jazz act at the Scranton Jazz Festival — and many other regional artists. In years past he has performed with the Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic, The Irish Tenors, and the Allentown Philharmonic. In the jazz and rock world, he has played in groups that have opened for musical legends such as Steely Dan, War, The Moody Blues, Rebbie Jackson, and the Temptations.

Steve is involved in many regional summer music camps and clinics, including the Marywood University Summer Jazz Camp (drum set and music theory instructor), Drum Set Extravaganza in Tunkhannock, PA (featured clinician), Keystone College Summer Jazz Camp (drum set instructor), the Mapex Drum Clinic presented by Magdon Music (opening performer), and the Yamaha Sound of Summer Percussion Workshop at East Stroudsburg University (mallet keyboard instructor).

A graduate of Marywood University, where he studied Music Education and classical percussion, Steve is currently an Adjunct Professor at Marywood, where he teaches jazz percussion, and a classroom music teacher at Howard Gardner Charter School in Scranton, PA.