Madeline Dethloff

Maddy Dethloff is a percussionist and teacher based in western Massachusetts and the Hudson Valley. She is the percussion instructor at Mount Holyoke College in and at Deerfield Academy. She is also involved in the APS program at Bard College Conservatory of Music. Maddy has played with the Chatterbird New Music Ensemble, Roy Wooten's New Village Orchestra, Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and many others. As a performer, Maddy was a winner of the Southern Adventist concerto competition and performed Séjourné's vibraphone concerto with their orchestra in Collegedale, TN. She also performed Viet Cuong's percussion concerto “Re(new)al” with the UMass Amherst Wind Symphony. In 2022, she performed “Castine” by Stuart Saunders Smith at the Roulette in Brooklyn, NY. In the fall of 2019, she and her colleague, Sam Carullo, organized and performed a duo concert to premiere five new works by composers from all over the country. Internationally, Maddy has premiered music by Lila Meretzky with the marimba virtuoso, Ji Hye Jung, in Cortona, Italy. In South America, she performed in Colombia with Orquesta Colombo Americana de Vientos and, in Buenos Aires, with colleagues Ignacio Corrales and Ayano Kataoka at Centro Cultural Recoleta. She also presented a masterclass at the Conservatorio de Astor Piazzolla. In December of 2023 and Summer of 2024 Maddy has gone on tour with Grammy award winning composer Tan Dun playing in Hong Kong, and in Changsha, Qingdao, and Shanghai, China. She played the music of John Cage, as well as world premieres of Tan Dun's arrangement of “Rite of Spring” and his new concerto for Nao Bells. Active in her community, Maddy worked at her local New Horizons band, leading sectionals and participating in concerts with the senior citizens of Northampton, MA. From 2021-2024, Maddy has been involved with Yellow Barn, the summer fesitval in Putney, VT. Maddy has also worked for the Brooklyn-based percussion quartet Sandbox Percussion since 2019. Maddy received her Bachelor's at Vanderbilt University studying under the direction of Ji Hye Jung and Lee Vinson. She is an MM graduate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she studied under Ayano Kataoka.