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TUSCALOOSA, AL – The University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences School of Music presents a faculty recital with Beth Gottlieb, percussion, on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Moody Music Building on the campus of The University of Alabama. The recital consists of music from many genres including a Marimba Concerto with the UA Percussion Ensemble conducted by Dr. Ken Ozzello, the UA Director of Bands. She will also be accompanied by her two sons, Brian and Scott Radock, percussion students at UA who between them have won several national collegiate music competitions. A graduate of Alabama, Gottlieb attended the Eastman School of Music in New York before moving to Orlando to become a recording musician for Disney. During her time at Disney, she helped to record many of the soundtracks and theme park music for films such as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and more. She has also performed for many greats such as Tony Bennett, Bobby McFerrin, Steve Lawrence, Donny Osmond, Millton Berle and Shirley Jones. She has also performed with many orchestras, shows, bands around the world. She and husband Danny, who is a world-renowned drummer with Pat Metheny, Sting, Manhattan Transfer, the Blues Brothers, are also members of actor/musician Gary Sinise’s Lt. Dan Band and travel the world performing hundreds of USO shows. Gottlieb joined the faculty at UA in Fall 2009. This event is FREE and open to the public. For more information visit http://music.ua.edu/calendar-of-events/ or call 205-348-7111.
Beth Gottlieb is a performer, teacher, clinician, and soloist, whose experience covers the musical spectrum. Gottlieb previously taught at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL and the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, MI. In addition to working with actor Gary Sinise’s Lt. Dan Band, she is the Principal Timpanist/Percussionist with the Walt Disney World Candlelight Orchestra at Epcot, Principal Percussionist in the Tuscaloosa Symphony and Percussionist with many touring artists, shows, and recording projects. She has performed and/or recorded with Andy Williams, Henry Mancini, Peabo Bryson, Celine Dion, Sammy Davis Jr., Eydie Gorme, Natalie Cole, Sandi Patti, Roger Williams, Carol Channing, Kansas, Henny Youngman, Chick Corea, Victor Wooten, Muriel Anderson, Johnny Mathis, Engelbert Humperdinck, and many more. She has also performed in the Naples Philharmonic, Tampa Orchestra, Brevard Symphony, Space Coast Pops, Florida Symphony, Winter Park Bach Festival Orchestra and numerous touring Broadway shows and conventions.
Gottlieb has had experience in the world of total percussion, including: marching snare drum in Tom Float’s Spirit of Atlanta drum line, playing timpani and percussion in Orchestras, Broadway shows, commercials, churches, movie soundtracks. She has also had a long history with the Disney Company as a performer in Epcot’s Future Corps, Future World Brass, Epcot Pops Orchestra, The World Dancer’s Show Band, and Candlelight Orchestra. Gottlieb also recorded hundreds of commercials and sound tracks (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and others) for Disney. Along with playing drum set and percussion in a variety of commercial venues, she also has performed solo marimba and percussion concerts.
Gottlieb prides herself on playing and teaching all styles of percussion, including classical percussion, hand percussion, show percussion, jazz/rock and rudimental snare drum. Gottlieb and husband Danny, “The Gottlieb Duo,” perform many concerts and clinics all over the world including Latvia, UK, Norway, Sweden, US, Italy, Germany, Vietnam, Africa and more. They love performing for children with their educational program, “The Rhythms of Music and Life.” Both (as members of the Lt. Dan Band) have traveled to Afghanistan, North and South Korea, Japan, Europe, Canada, the UK, Guantanamo Bay and all over the United States for the USO, including performances at the Pentagon, Walter Reed Hospital, Ft. Hood Memorials, NYC 9/11 concerts, and a Memorial Day national television performance. A full-length movie/documentary has just been completed about the Lt. Dan Band that will be released nationally.
Not only is Gottlieb an avid performer, she has held many offices in the Percussive Arts Society, MENC, MTNA, the Florida Bandmasters organizations, and hosted PASIC 1998 in Orlando. She is in charge of the all-state music selection committee through the FBA/FMEA and is the head of the Solo and Ensemble Percussion Music List for Florida. Gottlieb wrote her first book, Masterworks for Mallets (published by Row-Loff Productions) and has published several other Mallet Ensemble works. She holds a Master of Music degree in Percussion Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with John Beck, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Alabama, where she studied with Larry Mathis. While at Alabama, Gottlieb won the Concerto Competition on marimba, was a winner several times in the MTNA Collegiate-Artist Competition, inducted into nine Honor Societies, was on the Dean’s List every semester, and was in Glamour Magazine as one of the Top 10 Collegiate Women in the United States. Gottlieb also performed in Guatemala twice, representing UA on state sponsored solo marimba tours. Gottlieb is a clinician/endorser for Ludwig/Musser Percussion, Zildjian Cymbals, Innovative Percussion, Grover Pro Percussion, Latin Percussion, Sibelius Music software and the Remo Corporation. In addition to everything she does with music, avid runner, having been featured in Runner’s World, Glamour, and Womans Day magazines.