Jim Solomon is a National
Board Certified Teacher, author and national clinician. He is a music instructor
at R.B. Hunt Elementary in St. Augustine, FL, where he works with General Music
classes, Chorus, Recorder Club, and D.R.U.M., a special percussion group for 5th-grade
students. Each summer, he teaches the Orff Level 1 teacher training course at
the Eastman School of Music and works with Kdgn-High School students at Eagle
Arts Camp. He has also taught this summer teaching Level 1 at the University of
Oregon. He was Teacher of the Year for St. Johns County in 1991, and he has presented
at twelve previous AOSA National Music Conferences. Among his six books are D.R.U.M.,
Conga Town, and Tropical Recorder (co-author). He has also produced
a video titled Congas, Bongos & Other Percussion A Guide to Technique