About

Dr. Trent W. Shuey is Assistant Director of Bands and Senior Instructor of Percussion at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, where he has taught since 2015. He directs the ASU Jazz Ensembles, the Percussion Ensemble, the Ram Horns, and the Ram Band Drumline, and he teaches applied percussion.

At ASU he has grown the Ram Band Drumline from 8 members to more than 20. He created the Ram Horns identity in 2016, directed the Symphonic Band from 2015 to 2018, and has arranged percussion for more than 40 collegiate halftime shows. He received the ASU Faculty Service Award in 2020 and secured a $25,000 grant from the Rea Charitable Trust for new instruments.

As a performer he moves between the orchestra, the jazz club, and the concert stage. He has been a timpani soloist in Philip Glass's Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists with the ASU Symphony Orchestra and the Big Spring Symphony, performed as percussionist on bongos and mambo bell for Tito Puente Jr., and performed in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil, including five seasons on the percussion faculty of the ÓperaMaya International Music Festival. He is also the Official Drummer of Fort Concho, where he plays an original 1867 drum.

Dr. Shuey is an endorsed artist with Innovative Percussion, a member of the Percussive Arts Society and the Texas Music Educators Association, faculty sponsor of ASU's Tau Beta Sigma chapter, and an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Tau Beta Sigma.