
Josh Gottry has worked extensively around the Phoenix metropolitan area as a pre-collegiate and university-level educator at institutions including Arizona Christian University, Arizona State University, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Chandler Preparatory Academy, Grand Canyon University, Highland High School, and South Mountain Community College.
He has taught courses in percussion, music theory and composition, music business, and humanities, directed jazz ensembles, drumlines, and percussion ensembles, assisted with marching bands, pep bands, and wind ensembles, and worked with private percussion students at all grade levels as a clinician and within his private lesson studio.
Mr. Gottry has presented clinics in the fields of music business, music technology, and percussion at multiple state PAS days of percussion, the Arizona Music Educators Association Conference, and the Percussive Arts Society International Convention.
EXERCISE & ETUDE (coming soon)
PASIC 2007 – Keyboard FUNdamentals
AMEA 2010 – Teaching through Percussion Ensemble
PASIC 2011 – The Composer Percussionist
AMEA 2013 – Percussion Test Kitchen
NMPAS 2013 – Seven Tips for Success in the Music Business
PASIC 2015 – Cajon FUNdamentals
AMEA 2017 – Portable Pedagogical Percussion Ensembles
WWU 2018 – This is a Vibraphone
AMEA 2024 – “LATIN!”: What Exactly Do You Mean by That?