Rick Cline
Applied Percussion
Percussion Ensembles

Rick Cline, a graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne College and the University of North Carolina--Greensboro, is the director of the Lenoir-Rhyne University percussion ensembles, as well as Applied Percussion.

He is a composer of percussion ensemble music for young ensembles and is currently working on a series of literature for these students. In addition to his compositions for young ensembles, Cline is completing a progressive drum set method.

Mr. Cline is an active teacher in the Hickory region, teaching over seventy private students, working with high school drum lines, and directing "Drumming Together", a Teen Up program for at risk teens through Catawba County Social Services. The "Drumming Together" program has been endorsed by North Carolina Governor, Jim Hunt.

Cline is also an active performer. He appears frequently with the Western Piedmont Symphony, and with jazz groups Moodswings, Soul Kitchen, the Todd Wright group and the David Wortman Trio.

Mr. Cline is proficient in all major areas of percussion and has studied with Mohammed DeCasta, Dr. Eric Charry, Dr. Cort McClaren, Rick Dior, Jim Chapin, and Micheal Burritt.