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Growing up playing in Rock Bands, Owen Weaver began his formal percussion training at the University of Minnesota in 2001 studying with Fernando Meza and Earl Yowell. As a soloist committed to bringing classical music to non-academic settings, he has performed in the Marimba Underground concert series in Minneapolis as well the New York based Wordless Music Series. An active chamber musician, he performs with Austin new music group PicNacht as well as flute/percussion duo Undertow. Mr. Weaver collaborated with Grammy-nominated Conspirare: A Company of Voices for a television special aired nationally on PBS, the recording of which was released on the Harmonia Mundi label. As an orchestral musician he is serves as principal timpanist of the Round Rock Symphony and has made appearances with the Austin Symphony, the Austin City Brass Ensemble, the Austin Singers, and the Texas Choral Consort. In 2009 he received a master’s degree from the University of Texas Butler School of Music under the tutelage of Tom Burritt and Tony Edwards.