World Percussionist N. Scott Robinson has performed on the Grammy Award-winning CD Harlem Renaissance with the Benny Carter Big Band. He has also performed or recorded with Paul Winter Consort, Malcolm Dalglish, Mary Youngblood, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, Howard Levy, Layne Redmond, Giovanni Hidalgo, Steve Gorn, R. Carlos Nakai, Bill Miller, Simon Shaheen, Jamey Haddad, Eugene Friesen, The Cleveland Orchestra, New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, and Gerald Alston, among others.  Scott has also worked under the direction of composers John Cage, George Crumb, Halim El-Dabh, and Annea Lockwood. He has studied with Peter Erskine, Glen Velez, William Moersch, Naná Vasconcelos, Malcolm Dalglish, Keith Copeland, Indian musicians N. Amrit, Srirangam R. Kannan, B. Shree Sundar Kumar, T. V. Vasan, N. Seetharaman, and Shona musicians Chaka Chawasarira and Cosmas Magaya. Scott has produced two CDs of his music including World View (1994) and Things That Happen Fast (2001) and an instructional video called Hand Drumming: Exercises for Unifying Technique for udu (1996). Thirteen scores of his world percussion compositions (six of which are commissions) have been published by HoneyRock Publishing and New World View Music in 2003-2008.  He has given clinics on diverse styles of hand drumming in Japan, for the Percussive Arts Society, and Artist-in-Residence for the Percussion Departments at University of Kentucky, Northern Illinois University, University of Missouri-Columbia, Duquesne University, Gettysburg College, and Winthrop University.  Scott's national performance experience includes appearances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Apollo Theater, St. Peter's Church, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and the Knitting Factory all in New York as well as The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, Severance Hall in Cleveland, and elsewhere. His international performance experience includes performances in South Korea, Australia, India, Greece, Canada, and Germany.  He currently teaches at Goucher College and Towson University, Maryland, USA.  Scott is a graduate of Rutgers University and Kent State University.  His published work remains focused on issues relevant to percussionists and includes interviews and articles published in Modern Drummer, Percussive Notes, Rhythm Music, Dulcimer Players News, Batera & Percussão (Brazil), Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 2: Performance and Production, and The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, among others. Scott has presented academic papers on Brazilian percussion at regional and international meetings of The Society for Ethnomusicology in 2002 and International Society for Improvised Music in Denver, CO in 2008. He was awarded a Senior Performing Arts Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies to study and research percussion in South Indian Carnatic music in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala in India during 2005-2006.  He is the founder,  Chair and Treasurer of the North American Frame Drum Association, Inc., and one of the principal organizers of the NAFDA Frame Drum Festivals, which features top international frame drum artists from around the world presenting concerts and workshops in Indian, Brazilian, Irish, Italian, Arabic, Uzbek, Persian, and Spanish world percussion styles at 6 annual festivals in Canada and the USA. N. Scott Robinson holds endorsements with Cooperman, Meinl, Rockcreek Steel Drums, Anklang Musikwelt, Decora 43, Milltone Drums, N. Scott Robinson Udu by Buffalo Moon Flutes, Puck 'n Stompa stomp box by Peterman, and David Bellinger E-Kalimba.