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Dustin Donahue is a percussionist and sound-activist residing in San Diego, California. He is currently studying with Steven Schick and performs regularly with the percussion group red fish blue fish and the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra.
Dustin has performed in a wide array of venues around the world including Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the Banff Centre, a city council room in Pavia, Italy, the Aspen Music Festival, and the mountains of Alberta, Canada.
Devoted to the creation of new art, Dustin enthusiastically seeks collaboration with composers and artists. Recent premieres include works by John Luther Adams, Wojtek Blecharz, Paul Feyertag, Paul Hembree, Lewis Nielson, and Michael Pisaro. In the summer of 2011, Dustin will give a solo concert comprised solely of new works for percussion by UCSD composers (stay tuned for details!)
Dedicated to music scholarship, Dustin is frequently engaged in research and analysis. Currently, Dustin is studying the electronic music of Edgard Varese under the guidance of Chou Wen-Chung, Roger Reynolds, and Steven Schick. Past areas of study have included the music of Luciano Berio, Morton Feldman, David Lang, and Toru Takemitsu.
In his spare time, Dustin enjoys biking, creating horribly mundane and inefficient computer music experiments in PureData, pretending to cook, advocating for free and open-source software, and getting generally upset about the news.