The Trio Biography

Global Percussion Trio was founded in 1994 by Barry Dove with the focus on exploring world music through percussion. Particular interests include frame drums such as the middle Eastern Riq and Duff, the Irish Bodhran, the North African Bendir and Tar, the Chinese Gavel and the South Indian Kanjira. Other focuses include African Drumming, Japanese Daiko, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Trinidad & Tobago, North Indian Tabla, American ragtime and jazz. The credentials of the trio's members Barry Dove, Joe McCarthy, and Robert Jenkins include studies at the Peabody Conservatory of Music,  University of North Texas, Hartt School of Music, University of Ghana in Accra and University de la Havana in Cuba.  Members perform with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Lyric Opera Company, United States Naval Academy Band, USNA's big band, Key West Symphony Orchestra, Washington Contemporary Music Forum and the National Theatre in Washington DC.  Currently, members of the trio teach at University of Maryland (UMBC), Loyola and Georgetown University.   Global Percussion has performed at Washington's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Joseph Meyerhoff Hall with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Shriver Hall Concert Series with Laurence Lesser, The Levine School of Music with George Crumb, PASIC 06',  Baltimore Book Festival,  Whitbread Festival, Chevy Chase Concert Series, Notre Dame College, Loyola College, UMBC, Baltimore Symphony Arts Excel Program, and has been performing programs for Young Audiences of Maryland for the past thirteen years. Barry Dove is a past winner of the Peggy and Yale Gordon Concerto Competition and is a Gordon Artist.  Mr. Dove has given lectures on African drumming, dance and culture at the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Bucknell University, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Lee College and Loyola College.  The Washington Post's critic cited "...superhuman dexterity which made Dove's marimbas seem to play itself...exceptionally virtuosic...Barry Dove is a marvelous player...Barry Dove played with assurance and amazing agility.  The Baltimore Sun cited "Hot Global Percussion Trio ". Global Percussion Trio has recorded CD's for Robert Macht's "Suite for Javanese Gamelan and Synthesizer" 1996 and "Vishnu" 1999. Global Percussion Trio has recently recorded their debut CD "Global Percussion Trio" 2005. Mr. Dove also records for the National Geographic Explorer Channel, Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel. Barry Dove and Global Percussion Trio are proud sponsors and endorsors of the Avedis Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth Sticks and Mallets, Latin Percussion and Blackswamp Percussion. Joe McCarthy is sponsored by Yamaha Drums, Zildjian Cymbals, Innovative Percussion, Latin Percussion and Blackswamp Percussion. Robert Jenkins is sponsored by Blackswamp Percussion.