Greg Power
Percussion Caption Head
This is Greg’s 3rd season as caption head and 6th season working at Blue Stars. Greg resides in Clovis, CA and is a member of the Vic Firth/Zildjian education team. He received his Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance from Washington State University (2015) and his Master of Music in Percussion Performance at California State University - Northridge (2018). He performed in DCI with the Cascades, Blue Stars and in WGI with Pulse Percussion.
Greg is currently an Associate Instrumental Director at Buchanan Educational Center, where he directs both Alta Sierra Intermediate Percussion and the Buchanan High School Percussion Studio.
Greg has taught drum corps international and dci students for 9 years. He has had private lesson students march in every active DCI world class drum corps and prior to his employment at Blue Stars, taught at Bluecoats (2020-2022), who won the Fred Sanford award for best percussion in 2022.
Greg is a WGI educator as well, teaching POW Percussion for 6 seasons, as a battery tech, front ensemble coordinator and ensemble coordinator. He currently teaches at RCC indoor.
Greg formerly taught the following high school programs: Arcadia, Thousand Oaks, Sierra Vista and Chino Hills HS. Greg was a former adjunct professor of percussion at California State University, Bakersfield, front ensemble coordinator at Golden Empire and adjunct professor of percussion at Bakersfield College.
