Craig Pare is Associate Professor of Music at the DePauw University School of Music, where he is Director of the University Band and teaches percussion and music education courses. He studied timpani and percussion with Roland Kohloff, and Gary Werdesheim, and holds degrees from Barrington College, Florida State University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in conducting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Dr. Paré has performed with the Indianapolis, Savannah, Tallahassee, and Jacksonville Symphony Orchestras, the Cincinnati Wind Symphony, the Philharmonia à vent, the Brooklyn Lyric Opera and Des Moines Metro Opera, the Connecticut and Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Spoleto Festival USA, and the Festival Dei Due Mondi, in Spoleto, Italy. He is currently Principal Timpanist and Percussionist with the Terre Haute and Lafayette Symphonies. He is featured as timpani soloist on the DePauw Universi ty Band's fourth compact disc, Wind Journey , performing the "Concertino for Timpani, Winds and Percussion" by Donald. H. White. He has been a member of the percussion faculties at Florida State University, Barrington College, Valdosta State College, Simpson College, and Western State College.