Green Thunder Percussion

Email: joe@greenthunderpercussion.org

As a player and student, Joe Roach spent four years at Prospect High School where he discovered his love for percussion and desire to excel. Joe took that passion and went on to become a member of the 1998 Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps Front Ensemble. It was over the next few years, while studying music performance at the University of Iowa, where he began making a living as a working musician.

Joe has been a teacher in the Chicagoland area for over nine years. Working primarily at the high school level, he has had the privilege of teaching with some of the finest percussive driven programs in the area. He spent four years teaching with Bret Kuhn at Prospect High School in Mount Prospect, and is currently the Front Ensemble Caption Head at Lake Park High School in Roselle, IL. This will be Joe’s third year with Green Thunder Percussion and he hopes to continue building a great tradition of marching percussion in Chicago.