Make Music Catawba County

Rick Cline

Rick Cline is a performer/educator in Hickory, NC, as well as a husband and father of 2 boys , Reese and Gabriel. As a native of Hickory, Cline enjoys a wonderful musical career filled with numerous weekly performances and an abundant weekly teaching load. He teaches applied percussion at Lenoir Rhyne University, and the University of NC at Charlotte, and currently directs the Piedmont Percussion Program, a program for kids ages 6-18 for 7 years. Prior to that, he also founded and taught the Lenoir-Rhyne Percussion program for over 8 years. The P3 program contains over 60 kids, divided up into 4 percussion ensembles and 2 community steel drum bands. The program performs yearly at the NC Day of Percussion, has won national acclaim among educators, and has been acknowledged for excellence in the internationally distributed “Percussive Notes“.