Dr. Frank Kumor is currently on the music faculty at Kutztown University where he the Assistant Director of Percussion Studies and conducts the world percussion ensemble. This ensemble specializes in the drumming of West Africa, Ghana, and Brazil. His new book, co-authored with Chalo Eduardo, Drum Circle, A Guide To World Percussion, has been released by Alfred Publishing Company which features twenty-eight world percussion instruments from five continents and an interactive CD-ROM. His online clinics can be viewed at the Alfred website.



As a performer, Dr. Kumor presents recitals and workshops throughout the United States, including PMEA, TMEA, and PASIC 2001. He has performed with the Lexington Philharmonic, the Lexington Bach Ensemble, the Lexington Brass Band, Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra and Lehigh Choral Union. Committed to new music composition and performance, his repertoire features many late works by active composers. Dr. Kumor has performed at the Patagonia International Percussion Festival, Rio Negro, Argentina, at the Polish International Percussion Festival, Wroclaw and Opole, Poland and at PASIC 2003 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. His performances schedule includes invitations to the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and festivals in Argentina, Spain, and Brazil during 2004 and Sweden and Puerto Rico in 2005.



Dr. Kumor’s marching percussion activities include teaching and arranging for award winning high school and university percussion sections in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Ohio. Additionally, he annually accepts teaching invitations at marching percussion workshops and his marching percussion compositions are published in the annual Yamaha "Sounds of Summer” instructional handbook.



Dr. Kumor has composed and arranged for percussion ensemble, marching percussion and solo marimba. His compositions are published by Honey Rock Publishing. He has completed the Bachelor of Arts degree from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, the Master of Music in Music Theory from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Kentucky.



Dr. Kumor is a Performing Artist and Clinician for Paiste Cymbals, Yamaha Percussion, Remo Percussion, Mike Balter Mallets and Alfred Publishing Company.