Marty Hurley

Marty Hurley was an American percussionist, teacher, composer, and clinician. He is best known for his work in the areas of marching percussion, rudimental drumming, drum & bugle corps, and marching band.

Instruction

Since 1974 Marty has been the Director of Bands at Brother Martin High School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurley’s bands have been consistent winners of sweepstakes awards at regional concert and marching competitions. During his time at Brother Martin he has had 71 percussion students from his beginning percussion class eventually become All State performers, and received the Teacher of the Year award in 1999.

Marty has also acted as percussion instructor at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana, and twice judged the national finals of the Marching Bands of America contest, and the Percussive Arts Society National Marching Forum.

Drum Corps

A former member of New Jersey’s Hawthorne Caballeros and Blessed Sacrament’s Golden Knights, Marty served as percussion instructor for the Stardusters (Arabi, Louisiana) 1971, the Bleu Raiders (Metairie, Louisiana) 1972-73, and the Black Knights (Belleville, Illinois) 1973-75. During his tenure as percussion instructor and arranger with the Phantom Regiment (Rockford, Illinois), the corps placed in the top ten nationally for 14 years at D.C.I. finals competition in Denver, Philadelphia, Birmingham, Montreal, Miami, Madison, Kansas City, Buffalo and Dallas.

Currently

At the time of his death, Marty was a Marching Percussion Clinician for Pearl Percussion, Sabian Cymbals, and his music and instructional videos are published by Row-Loff Productions. In November 2002, Marty performed as a soloist on The Drummer’s Heritage Concert at the Percussion Arts Society International Convention in Columbus, Ohio. Marty Passed Away on September 12th, 2011, after suffering from a stroke and about a month of intensive care in the hospital. Marty made the decision to move on instead of being a burden, he wanted to die on his own terms.

Honors

In September 2004, Marty Hurley was inducted into the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Mr. Hurley was the band director at Brother Martin High School in New Orleans, Louisiana until his death in September 2011.

In 2009, Mr. Hurley was inducted into the Louisiana Music Educator's Association Hall of Fame based on his fine work at Brother Martin High School.

Selected works

Phancy Phantom (Medium-Advanced Snare Drum Solo)
Phantom of the Phield (Advanced Snare Drum Solo)
Phantom Phrenzy (Advanced Snare Drum Solo)
Phantom Phire (Extremely Advanced Snare Drum Solo)

For all of Marty's compositions, go to Row-Loff's web site and search for "Marty Hurley".

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