Musician's Bio
Scott Ollhoff, tympani
| Name | |
| Scott Ollhoff | |
| saollhoff@charter.net | |
| Phone | |
| (507) 281-5410 | |
| Where are you from? | |
| I was born and raised in Rochester MN. | |
| What instrument(s) do you play? When did you start playing? | |
| I am primarily a percussionist, but have also studied piano, classical guitar, and fingerstyle guitar. I started piano at the age of 5, and drum lessons at 8. I took guitar lessons at the University of Minnesota. |
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| What brought you to Rochester and how did you become involved with The Rochester Pops Orchestra? | |
| After college I spent several years playing and teaching in Madison WI, Anchorage AK, and Minneapolis. Eventually, a serious illness in my family brought me back to Rochester. One day I received a text from Alec Tackmann, telling me a new orchestra was starting in Rochester and they were looking for trained orchestral percussionists to play mallets and tympani. | |
| What is your favorite style of music to play? | |
| It would be a tie: Jazz or Classical | |
| What inspires you to play? | |
| My fascination with drumming comes from an early exposure to Buddy Rich on The Tonight Show. In addition, my mom was a piano teacher and church organist, and after forcing me to take piano lessons she bought me a snare drum and found me a private percussion teacher. | |
| What is your favorite piece/concert that The Rochester Pops has played? | |
| That would be the first piece of the first concert. “Candide”. | |
| What other things are you involved with in the Rochester community? | |
| I am the drumline/percussion teacher at Rochester Century High School. I am a full time Social Studies teacher. I teach private percussion lessons. |
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| What do you do in your free time? (ie hobbies) | |
| Fishing, Reading, Playing the Guitar, Backpacking | |
| What’s your favorite album and why? | |
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Right now my favorite album is Tom Waits “Closing Time.” It varies between Tom Waits, Steve Earle, and Paul Westerberg.
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| Please list the instrument(s) you teach. | |
| I teach all percussion instruments, all ages and levels. |