Joseph Van Hassel is a North Carolina-based percussionist  specializing in orchestral and chamber music. Performance highlights  include Carnegie Hall, the Cincinnati MusicNow Festival, the Percussive  Arts Society International Convention, the International Tuba Euphonium  Conference, and the Hindemith Center in Switzerland. A versatile artist  in many genres, Joseph has performed or recorded with Percussion Group  Cincinnati, Roland Vazquez, and Bernard Woma. He has worked with  numerous composers in the performance of their music, including Steve  Reich, Peter Garland, Joseph Schwantner, William Bolcom, Jennifer  Higdon, Elliot Cole, and John Corigliano. Active in the performance of  new repertoire, Joseph has individually commissioned and premiered works  by many composers, and is especially noted for his close working  relationships with Michael Barnhart, David Macbride, Stuart Saunders  Smith, and Dan VanHassel. He can be heard on recordings for the Innova,  Mode, Equilibrium, nobrow.sounds, and Ohio Percussion record labels, and  his solo CD of percussion commissions is available on Soundset  Recordings. He is published in Percussive Notes, and his compositions are published by Media Press and PerMus.
An active educator, Joseph has presented master classes and given  solo performances at numerous universities throughout the USA, including  the Manhattan School of Music, Peabody Conservatory, and the Center for  New Music and Audio Technologies at the University of California at  Berkeley. He is on the percussion faculty at the University of North  Carolina at Pembroke, and previously taught at Ohio University and Blue  Lake Fine Arts Camp. Joseph is a member of the Percussive Arts Society’s  New Music / Research Committee, and co-owner of Media Press Music. 
Joseph earned degrees from the Hartt School, the Cincinnati  College-Conservatory of Music, and Ohio University. He also spent time  studying music and dance in Ghana, West Africa. He endorses Yamaha  Percussion, Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets, Black Swamp  Percussion Products, Sabian Cymbals, and Remo Drumheads.

https://www.josephvanhassel.com/