Faculty: Department of Music
Debbie Katz Knowles
Lecturer in Music
Specialization
Percussion
Percussion Ensemble
Winds and Brass
Band
Jazz
Conducting
Interests
Playing many instruments, jazz and percussion arrangements, jazz piano
Education
BME Northwestern University
MM Northwestern University
Courses Taught
Music 107: Band
Percussion Ensemble
Music 111-13: Applied Percussion
Music 104: Perspectives on Music
Music 150: Fundamentals of Music
Music 265: American Music
Performances
Musicals: West Side Story, Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls, Kiss Me Kate, Music Man, 1776, Sound of Music, South Pacific, Singing in the Rain, Hello Dolly, Fiddler on the Roof, Man of La Mancha, Pirates of Penzance, the Mikado, Anything Goes, Oliver, Cats, Ragtime, Candide, the Fantasticks, and others ‘
Light Opera Works in Evanston, principal percussionist
Lake Forest Symphony, principal percussionist for over 20 years
Nutcracker Ballet
Jazz and Dixieland combos
New Horizons Band (tuba, euphonium, flute, alto flute, piccolo, bass clarinet, bariton sax, percussion)
