Vlad Puskovitch
Vladimir Puskovitch is a freelance percussionist and music educator based out of the suburban Philadelphia area. He received a B.M.E. from McKendree University in 2024, and is now the Graduate Assistant for the West Chester University percussion department, where he is pursuing a M.M. in percussion performance. Puskovitch is also a founding member of The Percussion Conservatory, a virtual platform dedicated to providing world-class percussion education to musicians all around the world. Through the PC, Puskovitch has had the opportunity to play for Shannon Wood, Becca Laurito, Ivan Trevino, Joseph Gramley, Joshua Vonderheide, and Stephen Kehner. His primary teachers have been Andre Sonner and Dr. Ralph Sorrentino.
Puskovitch began performing professional while in his undergraduate studies, playing with the St. Louis Brass Band. With this group, he travelled to the North American Brass Band Association (NABBA) Champsionships, in Huntsville Alabama, where they received a fourth place finish in their division, the group’s highest placement. He also played within the percussion section of the Belleville Philharmonic Orchestra, the nation’s second longest continuously performing ensemble (second to the NY Phil), for one year before assuming the position of principal timpanist for another. Since then, he has premiered multiple works with Sandbox Percussion, grammy-nominated percussion quartet, and plans to premier multiple works for solo percussion in 2026. At West Chester University, Puskovitch has performed for Dr. Douglass Walter and Heather Thorn, and most recently accompanied the Quey Percussion Duo in their own “Circuit Breaker.”
In addition to providing private instruction, both in-person and virtual, Puskovitch now directs the Concert Percussion Ensemble at West Chester University, a group made up of both music and non-music majors. He also is drawn to creating percussion content for social media, where he gives insight to his practice process, gives basic percussion lessons, and has a platform to document his professional endeavors.
