First Year Seminar FYSE

Korean Drumming

Sponsored by:
First Year Seminar

Mondays in March, learn to play the traditional Korean percussion genre samulnori. At these drop-in classes, participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. Free, open to the public, and no experience needed. This class is geared towards adults.

The Bunker (FIC 121)

Open to the Public

Korean Drumming

Sponsored by:
First Year Seminar

Mondays in March, learn to play the traditional Korean percussion genre samulnori. At these drop-in classes, participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. Free, open to the public, and no experience needed. This class is geared towards adults.

The Bunker (FIC 121)

Open to the Public

Korean Drumming

Sponsored by:
First Year Seminar

Mondays in March, learn to play the traditional Korean percussion genre samulnori. At these drop-in classes, participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. Free, open to the public, and no experience needed. This class is geared towards adults.

The Bunker (FIC 121)

Open to the Public

Korean Drumming

Sponsored by:
First Year Seminar

Mondays in March, learn to play the traditional Korean percussion genre samulnori. At these drop-in classes, participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. Free, open to the public, and no experience needed. This class is geared towards adults.

The Bunker (FIC 121)

Open to the Public

Korean Drumming

Sponsored by:
First Year Seminar

Mondays in March, learn to play the traditional Korean percussion genre samulnori. At these drop-in classes, participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. Free, open to the public, and no experience needed. This class is geared towards adults.

The Bunker (FIC 121)

Open to the Public

Workshop the Piano in Jazz with Jazz Artist Tom Cleary (UVM)

Sponsored by:
First Year Seminar

UVM artist and teacher, jazz pianist Tom Cleary will offer a workshop on the piano in jazz and jazz piano. This workshop is offered in cooperation with the Public Humanities Labs initiative and is organized as part of this term’s First Year Seminar 1099, “The Cultural History of the Piano” (Prof. B. Matthias). Open to the public, but please reach out to Prof. Matthias beforehand (bmatthia@middlebury.edu).

Mahaney Arts Center 221

Open to the Public
Student presenters celebrate after completing their session. Four people smiling at the camera in busy hallway.

First Year Symposium 2025

Sponsored by:
First Year Seminar and ORATORY NOW

Welcoming our newest scholars to the Academic Community! Twenty-two First Year Seminars will celebrate the end of their first semester at Middlebury with a wide variety of short presentations, posters, and performances.

Free and open to the public. Details are at oratorynow.org/fysymposium

Axinn Center

Open to the Public

Korean Drumming

Sponsored by:
First Year Seminar

Mondays in September, come learn to play the Korean percussion genre samulnori. Samulnori blends traditional Korean rhythms into dynamic pieces using four Korean percussion instruments: janggu (hourglass drum), buk (barrel drum), jing (large gong), and ggwaenggwari (small gong). Participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. No experience needed.

The Bunker (FIC 121)

Open to the Public

Korean Drumming

Sponsored by:
First Year Seminar

Mondays in September, come learn to play the Korean percussion genre samulnori. Samulnori blends traditional Korean rhythms into dynamic pieces using four Korean percussion instruments: janggu (hourglass drum), buk (barrel drum), jing (large gong), and ggwaenggwari (small gong). Participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. No experience needed.

The Bunker (FIC 121)

Open to the Public