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Episode 512- Michelle Colton Pete's Percussion Podcast

Toronto-based Percussion Educator, Composer, and Freelancer Michelle Colton stops by to talk about her sessional teaching work at the University of Toronto, teaching in the local school district, and the freelancing scene there (03:25), her time as the Ontario Chapter President of PAS (19:15), growing up in Marion (IA), her musical family, soul and funk music, marching band, and marathon running (25:50), attending the University of Iowa for undergrad, her wide variety of experiences there, and eventually meeting her husband Alejandro Cespedes (41:50), going to the University of Toronto for her grad degrees, studying with lots of great professors, and her dissertation on percussion gestures (50:25), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on developing well-rounded percussionists, being a woman in the percussion world, keeping up her mental and physical health, great food, audiobooks, and her compositional inspirations (01:09:20).

Finishing with a Rave on a recent University of Missouri Faculty Music Recital (01:38:00).

Michelle Colton Links:

Michelle Colton’s website

Michelle Colton’s YouTube page

Michelle Colton’s University of Toronto page

Previous Podcast guests mentioned:

Victoria Sparks in 2018

She-e Wu in 2025

Michael Schutz in 2025

Todd Meehan in 2017