Los Angeles City College (CA) Professor of Music and Freelancer Kassandra Kocoshis stops by to talk about her PASIC50 Presentation on Cajón performance in Flamenco performance and how she came to love this genre of music (05:10), her job at LACC, how she got the job, freelancing in California, and working with the artist Ebi (19:50), growing up in Muncie (IN), her early musical experiences, working with Erwin Mueller at Ball State University while in high school, and her experiences traveling at a young age (53:30), her undergrad years at DePaul University (IL), encountering flamenco music during this time, and freelancing in Chicago after undergrad (01:06:45), heading to CalArts for her master’s and working with Gustavo Dudamel as his personal assistant (01:21:15), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on developing well-rounded percussionists, being a woman in the percussion field, bad impressions, Greek food, World Cup Soccer, great books, working with pop stars, and the artwork of Pablo Picasso (01:31:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2025 film 28 Years Later (01:50:10).

Kassandra Kocoshis links:

Kassandra Kocochis’s homepage

Previous Podcast guests mentioned:

Damon Grant in 2021

Erin Walker Bliss in 2024

Other Links:

Paco de Lucía

Ebi

Raul Pineda

Red Kite Sessions

Randy Gloss

Herb Alpert

Jennie Garth

Mona Tavakoli

Nikki Campbell

The Cortége

Erwin Mueller

Indiana Ambassadors of Music

Eric Millstein

Gustavo Dudamel

Ellen Reid

Sheila E. drum solo

Longman & Eagle

Rick Bayless

The Athenian Room

Life is Beautiful trailer

The Producers trailer (2005)

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Circe - Madeline Miller

Museo Reina Sofia

Guernica - Pablo Picasso

Raves:

28 Days Later trailer