Jamey Kollar

Jamey Kollar is an Assistant Director of the Spirit of Houston Marching Band at the
University of Houston, where he coordinates and arranges for the Spirit of Houston Drumline, as well as provides assistance with logistical preparations for the UH Band Department. He is also a percussion technician for the Pasadena Memorial, George Ranch and Shadow Creek High School marching percussion programs. In addition, Mr. Kollar maintains a very active performance, instruction, clinician and adjudication schedule around the city of Houston, as well as across the state of Texas.

Mr. Kollar is a graduate of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston,
earning his Masters of Music in Percussion Performance degree in the spring of 2012. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Moores School in 2010, with a Bachelor of Music degree in Percussion Performance.

Over the course of his collegiate and post-collegiate career, Mr. Kollar has been extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to study with many incredibly talented teachers and mentors, including Dr. Blake Wilkins, Alec Warren, Lamar Burkhalter, David Cossin, as well as the members of Sō Percussion. He has participated in masterclasses and coachings with such influential performers, conductors and composers as Steve Reich, She-e Wu, Paul Lansky, Brad Lubman, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and the Meehan-Perkins Duo.

A strong advocate for the promotion and proliferation of new music, Mr. Kollar keeps an active performance schedule, most notably as the percussionist for the Houston based contemporary chamber music group Loop38. Mr. Kollar was selected to be a fellow at the 2017 Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival in North Adams, MA, where he performed and studied alongside young professional musicians and composers from around the world. Additionally, he attended the 2012 and 2013 Sō Percussion Summer Institute (SōSI), an intensive percussion chamber music festival held annually on the campus of Princeton University.

Mr. Kollar’s professional affiliations include membership in the Texas Music Educators
Association, the Percussive Arts Society, and Pi Kappa Lambda. He proudly endorses
Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets.