Elizabeth DeLamater

Dr. Elizabeth DeLamater is a Lecturer at the Sharon J. Resch Institute of Music at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, where she teaches percussion, world music and electronic music production. She is principal timpanist of the Weidner Philharmonic.

Active as a classical, contemporary, and popular music performer, she has performed with the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony, Monarch Brass, and the National Women’s Festival Orchestra. Dr. DeLamater has taught percussion and steelpan at the University of West Indies at St. Augustine in Trinidad & Tobago, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Youngstown State University, Baldwin Wallace University, Roosevelt University, and North Central College.

Dr. DeLamater has performed and taught in Honduras, Japan, Panamá, Taiwan, and Trinidad, including the 2000 Trinidad World Steelband Festival and the 2005 Trinidad & Tobago Panorama competition with Phase II Pan Groove. She studied sabar, jembe and kutiro drumming in Senegal and The Gambia, and Dagara gyil, Ewe music and Dagomba drumming in Ghana.  Her numerous festival and conference appearances include the Virginia International PANfest, the Northwest Percussion Festival, and multiple Percussive Arts Society International Conferences.

Dr. DeLamater serves as Chair of the Percussive Arts Society Diversity Alliance and has hosted and produced the Art Lives podcast since 2018. Her published work can be found in the Instrumentalist, Percussive Notes, Rhythm!Scene, Panpress, and her website, elizabethdelamater.com.

She is proud to endorse Black Swamp Percussion, Innovative Percussion, Remo, and Zildjian.

DMA: Arizona State University, MM: Florida State University, BM: Northern Illinois University.