The Great Plains International Marimba Competition seeks to provide an avenue for musical growth of young marimbists around the world through educational and competitive experiences. This competition seeks to help educate student musicians and to contribute to the quality and evolution of marimba performance. Competitors will prepare solo marimba repertoire from a prescribed list and compete in a taped round for a chance to compete in the live rounds. The live rounds will be hosted at the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University.
Executive Director
Dane Romano
Congratulations to the 2018 Great Plains International Marimba Competition Winners!
Open Duo Division
3rd Place
Prism Percussion Duo
Tanner Brown & Grayson Rushing
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
2nd Place
Prosper High School Duo
Maddie Wallace & Madeline Duran
Prosper High School, Prosper, Texas
1st Place
3rd Ward Duo
Zachary Luftop & Daniel Vila
University of Houston, Houston, Texas
High School Solo Division
3rd Place
Isaac Chiang
Flower Mound High School, Flower Mound, Texas
2nd Place
Ava Machado
Grapevine High School, Grapevine, Texas
1st Place
Jonas Koh
Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, California
Collegiate/Open Solo Division
6th Place
Michael Crane
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
5th Place
Elise Chi Man Liu
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York
4th Place
Sachi Gullbrants
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
3rd Place
Kazuomi Motoike
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
2nd Place
Christina Cheon
Irvine, California
1st Place
Robert Chapman
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
7th Annual GPIMC 2019 Competition Dates
Semi-Final/Final Rounds of Competition: TBA
Our 2019 competition will be hosted at Oklahoma City University!
2019 Audio Round Judge
TBA
2019 Live Round Judges
TBA
Official Sponsors
Oklahoma City University, Wanda L. Bass School of Music
WANDA L. BASS FOUNDATION
Putnam City North Band Boosters
Dr. Andrew Richardson and the University of Oklahoma Percussion Program
