Cliff Hulling
Jazz Ensemble Conductor, Percussion Ensemble Conductor
Cliff Hulling received his bachelor of music degree in percussion performance and his master’s degree in theory and composition from California State University, Fullerton. He has worked as a percussionist for many groups including the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Chorale, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, and Royal Ballet. He has also worked with artists such as Sarah Vaughn, Doc Severinson, Henry Mancini, Ray Charles, and many other well-known musicians. He has appeared on both the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Mr. Hulling is also a staff composer for the Ludwig Music Publishing Company where he published A Modern Approach to the Drum Set and A Collection of Marimba Solos. As a composer he was featured on Crosscurrents the 2003 Biola University Faculty composers CD and in 1997 his percussion piece The Journey won the High Music Award at the Percussion World Championships. He regularly performs at the Ahmanson Theater where his Broadway credits include performances of the musicals Chicago, Titanic, Fosse, Cinderella, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Les Miserables, Into the Woods, Caroline or Change, Little Shop of Horrors, Play Without Words, Curtains, Drowsy Chaperone, The Light in the Piazza, Edward Scissorhands, and A Chorus Line.