EDUCATION
Now available for educational instruction
including (but not limited to) private lessons, marching percussion instruction, and consultations.
Contact Tanner below for more information!
Teaching:
Golden Triangle Percussion Symposium – Columbus, MS - 2026
East Tennessee Percussion Festival – Johnson City, TN - 2025
New Mexico State University Drumline Day – Las Cruces, NM - 2025
Colorado Percussion Clinic – Denver, CO - 2025
Crossmen Drum & Bugle Corps – Austin, TX - 2023
Morehead State University – Morehead, KY - 2019
INOV8 Winter Percussion – Evansville, IN - 2019
Music City Drum & Bugle Corps – Nasvhille, TN - 2019
Founders Classical Academy (K-12) – Prosper, TX - 2024-2025
Bourbon County High School – Paris, KY - 2021-2024
Lafayette High School – Lexington, KY - 2019-Present
Lake Highlands High School – Dallas, TX - 2023
George Rogers Clark High School – Winchester, KY - 2022
Adair County High School – Colombia, KY - 2021
Eastern High School – Louisville, KY - 2022
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School – Lexington, KY - 2021-2022
Conner High School – Hebron, KY - 2021
Corydon Central High School Indoor Percussion – Corydon, IN - 2019-2020
Summit High School – Spring Hill, TN - 2019
Grayson County High School Indoor Percussion – Grayson County, KY - 2019
Madison Consolidated High School – Madison, IN - 2017
Atherton High School – Louisville, KY - 2017
Iuka High School – Iuka, MS - 2014
North Oldham High School – Goshen, KY – Percussion Director - 2014-2018
Performance:
Dallas Wind Symphony – Dallas, TX – Substitute Timpanist - 2025
Music of John Cage – Lecture Recital - 2023
ExperimentAll Duo Recital – Chamber Recital - 2023
DMA Solo Recital – Lexington, KY – Works by Cage, Perez, Akiho, Wahlund - 2021
Master of Music Solo Recital – Morehead, KY – Works by Bach, Novotney, Lang, Samuels - 2020
Owensboro Symphony Orchestra – Owensboro, KY – Percussion Performer - 2019
Chamber Recital – Morehead, KY – Works by Hollo, Treuting, Samuels - 2019
Cave Run Symphony Orchestra – Morehead, KY – Percussion Performer - 2018-2020
Evansville United Methodist Church – Evansville, IN – Service Percussionist - 2018-2019
Vern Riffe Center for the Arts – Portsmouth, OH – Percussion Performer - 2019
Vern Riffe Center for the Arts – Portsmouth, OH – Steel Drum Performer - 2019
Senior Percussion Recital – Louisville, KY – Works by Leonardo, Maslanka, Evans, Hollo - 2018
Louisville Orchestra – Percussion Performer – Natural History by Michael Gordon - 2018
Junior Percussion Recital – Louisville, KY – Works by Brun, Cage, Shirley, Stout - 2017
Louisville Opera – Percussion Performer – Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland - 2017
Louisville Opera – Percussion Performer – Le docteur Miracle by Georges Bizet - 2016
Second Pres. Church – Louisville, KY – Worship Drummer & Service Percussionist - 2017-2021
St. Paul United Methodist Church – Louisville, KY – Worship Drummer - 2015-2020
KMEA Convention – Louisvile, KY – School Out Loud by Dr. Josh Smith - 2016
Louisville Opera – Percussion Performer – Die Zauberflote by W.A. Mozart - 2015
1200 – Rap Artist – Hand Drum Accompaniment – WFPK Waterfront Performance - 2015
Louisville Winds – Nan Moore, Conductor – Louisville, KY – Percussion Performer - 2014-2018
World Premiere Perfomances and Recordings:
WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCES / RECORDINGS
Star Dance for Percussion and Piano by Jeremy Beck – CD Recording - 2026
Fall for Percussion Ensemble by Tanner Leonardo - 2026
It Is for Percussion Ensemble by Tanner Leonardo - 2026
Catharsis for Percussion Ensemble by Tanner Leonardo - 2023
Going Home by Evelyn Glennie - 2021
Adagio from Symphony no 3. (1995) by Kryzstof Penderecki *US Premiere - 2018
Comes Around (2017) by Fred Speck - 2018
Intrusive Thoughts for Orchestra by Cullen Murphy - 2017
Encompass by Tyler Taylor - 2017
Nazca Lines – Journeys for Percussion by Marc Satterwhite - 2016
Icarus for orchestra (2015) by Jessica Kingery - 2015
Searching for America by Raymond Horton - 2014
Cello Concerto by Witold Lutaslawski (Paul York, Cello – Recording) Ensemble Member - 2014
Miscellaneous Projects:
ETAMU Director’s Symposium – Music and Movement! Matching Audio and Visual - June 2025
Guest Clinician with Lindsey Schueller
StryveMind Percussion Director Symposium - June 2024
PowerOn Guest Clinician
Recording Service – TMEA All-State Percussion Etudes – Dr. Megan Boutin, performer - July 2023
Released through Ensemble Block
Time Stream by David Maslanka, arr. Brian Zator - November 2023
Original Maslanka Transcription & Engraving, World Premiere at PASIC
Recording Service – TMEA All-State Percussion Etudes – Dr. Brian Zator, performer - July 2023
Released through Ensemble Block
StryveMind Percussion Director Symposium - June 2023
PowerOn Guest Clinician
Percussive Arts Society International Conference - November 2022
University Student Committee Panel Discussion Member – Career: “Ask a Professional!”
PreSonus Education Online Blog - September 2021
Using PreSonus StudioOne for Virtual Ensembles
Yamaha Educator’s Suite Online Blog - January 2021
8 Cost-Effective Tips to Improve Your Recordings
Casa Jamz – For Flexible Percussion Ensemble by Tanner Leonardo - January 2020
Published work – World Premiere by Conservatore de France, Grasse France
FUBAR Through the Years - Morehead State University Virtual Ensemble - September 2020
Virtual Ensemble Coordination and Presentation – 30,000+ views
Morehead State University – Faculty Gala Performance - March 2018
Sadie’s Birthday Adventures by Amanda Harberg
Percussive Arts Society KY Day of Percussion - March 2018
Logistics Coordination & Facilitation
KMEA District 12 Honors Percussion Ensemble Conductor - February 2018
World Premiere – BeatBox by Tanner Leonardo