In the wearisome search for light, I’ve found I can make it for myself.
b.1998
Spokane, WA
Delaney Armstrong Bio:
Delaney Armstrong, born in Spokane, Washington, is a Percussion Performance Graduate Student at Southern Oregon University after receiving a Music Business degree and Percussion Performance degree at Adams State University. As an aspiring percussionist and singer/songwriter, they have performed with many ensembles including percussion ensemble, jazz ensembles, concert choirs, wind ensembles, ‘7543 Panhandlers Steel Band, Marival Road Steel Pan Ensemble, Central American Marimba Band, The Alpine Backbeats Drumline and Samba Band, and Left Edge Percussion. They were featured as a percussion and vocal soloist on an Adams State University Percussion Concert titled Composition XX. Delaney has a passion for equity in music, and in the summer of 2018 was a guest speaker on the podcast, Tacet Thoughts in regards to their on-campus presentation entitled “The Stage Gap: Perceptions of the Female Percussionist in a Male Dominated Industry.”
In addition to promoting overall equity in music, they are an advocate for the LGBTQ+ and Women's Rights movement. From the fall of 2018 to now, they are working on the Composer Diversity Project, a project created to help bring awareness to underrepresented composers in the music industry. Currently, Delaney can be found under the percussive instruction of Dr. Terry Longshore. When they are not in percussion rehearsal or a practice room, they can be found painting, working on their animation skills, or recording in the recording studio.
Current Projects
Solo Repertoire
The Authors - Stuart Saunders Smith
I’ll Cover You (Reprise) - Arr. Delaney Jai
Sorry + When - Dodie Arr. Delaney Jai
Cricket Tala - Aurel Hollo
Whatever We Feel - Sammy Rae and the Friends - Arr. Delaney Jai
Drum Factory - Cory Hills
Satisfied - Hamilton Soundtrack - Arr. Delaney Jai
Pikilar - Anika Nilles
Memories 1 + 2 - Ney Rosauro
Performances/Projects
Inuksuit - John Luther Adams
in collaboration with aux art and chris whyte sep. 2022
Percussive Storytelling - Fred Rogers Institute Research
in collaboration with cory hills sep. 2022
SOU MUSIX EP Release Concert
in collaboration with SOU musix program oct. 2022
The Britt Festival Orchestra
Summer 2022
World Premier of Composition ‘23’ at Transplated Roots Research Symposium
in collaboration with me may 2022
Ionisation - Varese
in collaboration with transplanted roots percussion ensemble conducted by steve schick may 2022
Stone Tapestry - Jeff Herriot
In collaboration with the portland percussion ensemble february 2022
Tiny Ant Orchestra
Lunch - Lila Meretzky
Game of the Century - C. Snow
Spoons - Juri Seo
beeeeeeeep - dean kyle!
Art
“Hands in Motion” Series
Past Projects
Solo Repetoire
To the Earth - Frederic Rzewski
Performance date: June 1st
Memories - Ney Rosauro
Performance date: June 1st
Familiar - Alexis C. Lamb
Performance date: June 1st
23 - Delaney Jai
Performance date: June 1st
Stop Speaking - Andy Akiho
Performance date: May 7, 2020
Ancient Vase - Keiko Abe
Performance date: November 6, 2019
Rebonds B - Iannis Xenakis
Performance date: May 7, 2020
Kpanlogo - Arr. Valerie Naranjo
Performance date: May 7, 2020
Africa United - Arr Valerie Naranjo
Performance date: May 7, 2020
Antiphon for the Angels - Cristina Spinei
Performance date: May 7, 2020
The Yellow Wallpaper - Alexis C. Lamb
Performance date: May 7, 2020
Seven Shells - Wally Gunn
Performance date: May 7, 2020
Post-Lightened - Alexis C. Lamb
Performance date: May 7, 2020
Magna Sin - Gabriella Ortiz
Performance date: May 7, 2020
Wild Boy - Anika Nilles
Performance date: April 1, 2019
Ayehli - Alexandra Gardner
Performance date: April 1, 2019
Odessa - M. Lorrick
Performance date: November, 2020
Katamiya - Emmauel Sejourne
Performance date: November 2016
New Thaan - Bob Becker
Performance date: Spring 2018
Echoes No. 1 - Greg Harrison
Performance date: Spring 2017
SOU Percussion Ensemble
Third Construction - John Cage (conducting)
there were once - Andrea La Rose
Homunculus - Julia Perry
A Maroon Frog’s Rebel Frog - Bryan Jeffs
Ricefall - Michael Pisaro
the bird i made friends with - dean kyle!
The Great Escape - Nelson Cornejo
unitled revised* - dean kyle!
Escape Velocity - Dave Hall
Foreign Objects - John Bergamo
Rascal Tadpoles and the Quaalude Thunder - Jeffrey Bryan
Left Edge Percussion
Conga Tarang - J.B Smith
Life is [] - Jason Treuting
Bare White Bones - Wally Gunn
Life Lines - Allison Loggins Hull
Metal for Pieces of Wood - Ivan Trevino
Quintic - Josh Gottry
Stress and Flow - Vinao
Strange and Sacred Noise - John Luther Adams
Phyrigid Tango - Jade Hails
Stone Tapestry - Jeff Herriot
Hammers - Allison Loggins Hull
Adams State Percussion Ensemble
The Destruction of Sennacherib - Jeffrey Barudin
Spring Planting - Molly Herron
Happenstance - Derek Tywoniuk
Halil - Leonard Berenstein
Ember - Alyssa Weinberg
Phonophobia - Brandi Quinn
To Give You Form and Breath - inti figgis-vizueta
Music for Pieces of Wood - Steve Reich
La Sirene (The Mermaid) - Gene Koshinski
Death Wish - Gemma Peacocke
Toccata for Percussion Instruments - Carlos Chavez
The Infantryman - Shaun Tilberg
Aurora Borealis - Marilyn Bliss
Clapping Music - Steve Reich
Madrigal - Steven Mackey
Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra - Lou Harrison
Round for Three Muses - Andrea Clearfield
Settle - Sarah Hennies
Mystification - Miranda Johnson
March for 30 Percussion Instruments - Johanna Beyer
Percussion Opus 14 - Johanna Beyer
Malachite Glass - Nigel Westlake
Uneven Souls - Nebojsa Zivkodick
Xochiquetzal - Robert Xavier Rodriguez
Wah - Juri Seo
Gravity - Mark Mellitz
Re: Disaster - Susan K. Powell
World Music
Yashiro No Uta - Ikuyo Conant
Traditional Samba Bateria
performance date: October 25, 2019
Ican - Pancho Sanchez
performance date: november 21, 2019
Bemba Colora - Celia Cruz
performance date: November 21, 2019
Quimbara - Junior Cepeda
performance date: november 21, 2019
La Cura - Frankie Ruiz
performance date: november 21, 2019
Chango - Ozomatli
performance date: november 21, 2019
Get Something and Wave
performance date: november 21, 2019
Sunset
performance date: november 21, 2019
Jumbie
performance date: november 21, 2019
Sama
Performance date: Fall, 2019
Research and Presentations
23 (performed at Transplanted Roots)
Performance date: May, 2022
Percussion and Voice Paper and Presentation
Spring 2022 - Present
Percussion Composer Diversity Project
Fall 2018 - Present
14th Century European Trobairitz
Spring 2019
The Stage Gap: Perceptions of the Female Percussionist in a Male Dominated Industry
Spring 2018
Collaborations
Joe Gramley - Masterclass Participant
spring 2022
Josh Gottry - Quintic Live Debut
Fall 2020
So Percussion - Performance
Fall 2021
Cory Hills - Percussive Storytelling Touring and Creating
Winter 2020 - Present
Koshi Hiyashi and Chiho Sugo - Japanese and Minimalist Works
Fall 2019
Nariman Assadi - Traditional Iranian Frame Drumming
Fall 2019
Valerie Naranjo - Traditional West African Gyil, Drumming, and Dance
Spring 2019 - Fall 2019
Sarah Off - Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra by Lou Harrison
Fall 2018
Salida Circus - Percussion Extravaganza
Spring 2018
Don Richmond - Jazz and Collaboration Concert
Spring 2018
Chris Wabich - Drum Set and Steel Pan Concert
Fall 2017
Darren Rahn - Jazz Concert
Fall 2017
Alyssa Powell - Malachite Glass by Nigel Westlake
Spring 2017
Chloe Trevor - Xochiquetzal by Robert Xavier Rodriguez
Spring 2017
Adams State Art Department - Bronze Pour
Spring 2017 - Present
Pedagogy
Co-directing SLV Community Steel Band
Fall 2019 - Fall 2022
CMEA Presentation - Backpack Percussion
FAll 2018
Percussion Academy for Local High School Students
fall 2017 - Spring 2019
Durango Full-School Assemblies for Percussion
Spring 2017 - Spring 2022 (EMCEE in Spring 2019)
Other
Solo Performance - “Hands in Motion”
Spring 2022
Solo Performance - “23”
Spring 2021
Solo Performance - “The Things We Carry”
Spring 2020
Featured in Percussive Notes - Art and Improv Collab
Spring 2019
Solo Performance - “Painting Flowers”
Spring 2019
Internship at Beetle Percussion
Summer 2018
Created Custom Artwork for Beetle Percussion
summer 2018
Featured Soloist - Round for Three Muses by Andrea Clearfield
fall 2017
List of Ensembles
Left Edge Percussion
SOU Percussion Ensemble
Los Chimpances
The Britt Festival Orchestra
The Transplanted Roots 2022 Community Percussion Ensemble
Maraval Road
MUSIX
Adams State Percussion Ensemble
Music of the Americas’ Project (MAPS)
Adams State Jazz Band
7543’ Panhandlers
Alpine Backbeat Drumline
Adams State Wind Ensemble
Adams State Marimba Band
Adams State Samba Bateria
Spokane Thunder Drum Corps
Music in May Orchestra
Music in May Wind Ensemble
Spokane Honor Band
Washington State Bi-County Honor Band
Reardan Middle/Highschool Jazz Band
Reardan Middle/Highschool Concert Band
Reardan Middle/Highschool Marching Band