Doug Perry

Percussionist/improviser Doug Perry blurs the lines of genre and allows musics of all styles and backgrounds to share the same stage. Doug has appeared as a marimba soloist with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, the Classical Beat festival, and the Neue Eutiner Festspiele Orchestra in Eutin, Germany. He has appeared on television a number of times, having appeared on Ghanaian television, PBS, and NBC’s “America’s Got Talent”. As a jazz musician, Doug has performed with many of the most respected musicians in the industry today, including Christian McBride, Randy Brecker, Dave Samuels, Gary Thomas, and Joel Frahm. A frequent collaborator with other composers, he has premiered many new works in various ensembles, and has recorded and produced music for both video games and film. Doug can also be heard as both a performer and an arranger in many of the current releases by the video game music arrangement community known as the Materia Collective, and served as director of the 97-track collaborative album, “FALLEN” (2016). Doug holds degrees from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Kansas, as well as an artist diploma from the Yale School of Music, where he was awarded the Horatio Parker Memorial Prize. Doug is a founding member of the jazz/new music crossover group Triplepoint Trio, a core member of the mixed chamber ensemble Cantata Profana, video game cover band DiscoCactus, and faculty at Western Connecticut State University.