Jeremy Maytum

percussionist, music educator, arranger

“Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?”

-Iannis Xenakis

Jeremy Maytum, a native of Colorado, is a graduate of Colorado State University in 2009, where he earned the Master’s Degree in Percussion Performance and served as the Graduate Teaching Assistant for the award-winning CSU Percussion Studio. Jeremy completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Percussion Performance from Colorado State University-Pueblo in 2007. His primary teachers include Aaron Turner and Dr. Eric Hollenbeck. As an orchestral musician, Jeremy has performed with the Cheyenne Symphony in Wyoming, the Fort Collins Symphony, the Greeley and Boulder Philharmonic, the Lexington Philharmonic, and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. He has also made a guest appearance playing timpani with The United States Army Field Band in Washington, D.C. As an international performer, Jeremy completed a week-long residency at Inner Mongolia University in Hohhot, China in 2015, and served as Principal Timpanist for the 2016 Prague Summer Nights Music Festival in the Czech Republic. 

Jeremy has formerly taught at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, WY as the Adjunct Professor of Percussion. Additionally, he served on the percussion staff for Adair County High School in Columbia, KY, Beechwood High School in Fort Mitchell, KY, and Urbana High School in Ijamsville, MD. A dedicated performer in the world of the marching arts, Jeremy served as timpanist for the Blue Knights Drum & Bugle Corps in 2005.

Currently, Jeremy serves as the Coordinator of Marching Percussion at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD, where he writes and arranges for the UMDrumline and serves as head instructor. In addition, he works as the Communications Director and Inventory Coordinator for UMD Athletic Bands. He is on percussion staff for The Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps in Allentown, PA.

Jeremy is completing his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Percussion Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Kentucky (currently A.B.D.), where he studies with James Campbell. He regularly performs as timpanist with the Maryland Winds in Columbia, MD. As a chamber musician he tours nationwide with his percussion quartet BlueSHIFT, regularly giving clinics/masterclasses at universities and performing at various Percussive Arts Society “Days Of Percussion”. As a composer, Jeremy has contributed to the Blue Book, Vol. 3 from Tapspace Publications. He serves as a percussion instructor in Howard County, MD, currently working as a consultant at Centennial High School in Ellicott City, MD.

Jeremy proudly endorses Yamaha as a Performing Artist, and serves as an Educational Artist for Innovative Percussion, Remo Drumheads, and Sabian Cymbals. He is also a member of the Black Swamp Percussion Educator’s Network. Jeremy remains very active as a member and contributor to the Percussive Arts Society, serving on the Marching/Rudimental Committee as well as Secretary for the Maryland/Delaware Chapter.