MichaelÌýTetreault
- Associate Teaching Professor of Percussion
- Head of Percussion
- BRASS + PERCUSSION
Head of Percussion and Teaching Assistant Professor Michael Tetreault earned a BM from the Eastman School of Music in New York and an MMus from the Royal Academy of Music in London, United Kingdom. Tetreault is principal timpanist of the Central City Opera Orchestra, Boulder Chamber Orchestra and Fort Collins Symphony; principal percussionist of the Boulder Philharmonic and former assistant principal percussionist of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. He has performed domestically and abroad with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Toronto Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Central City Opera, Utah Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, RTE Concert Orchestra (Dublin), Ulster Orchestra (Belfast), the Halle Orchestra (Manchester) and many others.
As a chamber musician, Tetreault has performed with Roomful of Teeth, and performed and recorded with both Quattro Mani and Alarm Will Sound. He is a founding member of Throw Down or Shut Up comprising CU Boulder faculty dedicated to playing the most diverse and complex music they can find or create.
In addition to classical music, Tetreault has performed alongside popular artists including Ben Folds, Ingrid Michaelson, Styx, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Otis Taylor, Béla Fleck, Andrea Bocelli, Diana Krall, Elton John and many others. He has performed at festivals in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Germany and France; and recorded extensively for Albany Records, Cantaloupe Records, Warner Bros. Records, Bridge Records, Sony Classical, BIS Records, Colorado Public Radio, RTE Radio/TV Dublin and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Tetreault lives in Longmont, Colorado with his wife and four children.