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Patrick Alonzo Conway is a percussionist, wind player and
composer. He has studied with ethnomusicologist David
Locke and such
noted Master Drummers as Abubakari Lunna-Wumbie (Dagomba), Frisner Augustín (Haitian), Michael Spiro, Alejandro Carvajal
(AfroCuban) and I Ketut Gedé Asnawa (Balinese).
Mr.
Conway has traveled to Cuba to research Afro-Cuban Folklore through the Escuela National de Arté in Santiago de Cuba and Havana.
He holds a Master of Music degree in Music Composition from
the
University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and was a founding member of the contemporary music ensemble newEar and has served as president and a member of the Board of Directors of the New Music Institute of Kansas City, Inc..
He has
performed with the Gillham Park Orchtet, the Terrestrial Consort, Orquesta Inspiracion, Flamanté, Mambo X, ERV Andean fusion group, Grupo Aztlan and worked as performer and composer with Paul Mesner Puppets, Gorilla Theater and the National Audio Theater Festival.
Mr. Conway works with several ensembles under the auspices of the Traditional Music Society in Kansas City, with the bagpipe/percussion duo Goat’s Ear, as conga player with El Mambo Orquestra, Makusa, Descarga KC, and also plays percussion and
saxophone with BCR and Necessity Brass Band.
In the
summer of 2001 and 2002, he led a Creative AfroCuban Project
as a part of
the Studio150 arts-based youth job training program administered by the Arts Council of Metropolitan KC.
He currently is a member of Gamelan Genta Kasturi, a Balinese Gamelan Semara Dana ensemble functioning under the auspices of the UMKC Community Music and Dance Academy.
