Steve Fitch is the Associate Principal Timpanist, Solo Drum Set Artist and Percussionist with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra. He studied percussion performance at the Oberlin Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music with Michael Rosen and John Beck, respectively. He is also the Principal Percussionist and Drum Set performer with the Arizona Musicfest festival orchestra. He has toured and recorded in Europe with the North German Radio Orchestra and co-founded the kalamazoo percussion trio in Hannover, Germany. Fitch has taught at the Young Artist Festival in Bayreuth Germany for seven years and is currently on the faculty at Grand Canyon University. Steve is a composer of works for percussion, which are published by Mel Bay, Musikverlag Zimmermann, C. Alan, Amazon and Pocket Publications. His other five books for drum set and snare drum (Fantastic Hands, Fantastic Feet, Flam Pathways, Drum Set Freedom and Advanced Swing Systems) are all available at Amazon.com