Donnie Bell is a composer originating from Central New York. Throughout the years, he has traveled from coast to coast and has worked all over the country. For two and a half years, Bell worked out of Los Angeles, California, where he also attended the University Of Southern California. Presently, Bell is based out of Tacoma, Washington. Check out his videos Donnie Bell's Videos At an early age, Bell began playing the drums and shortly thereafter began performing with what would be a list of productions and performance groups. Although Bell enjoys performing, his greater passion lies within the compositional spectrum of music. Throughout 2010, Bell released Chronicles, a multi-movement programmatic piece scored for a percussion quintet. (Toucan's Revenge, the fourth movement of Chronicles, has been performed by the Pierce College Percussion Ensemble and has received airtime on Northwest Public Radio.) As a follow-up to Chronicles, Bell veered in a rather different direction to write Hold On, Let Go, a solo work for piano. In February of 2011, Bell released his most elaborate work to date, Tacoma, WA. Tacoma, WA is a work written for a wind and brass ensemble and pays homage to one of Bell's favorite places, Tacoma, Washington. In August of 2012, Bell released Snails To Slugs (stylized as sn@ils to ślugs), a duet written for two marimbas. The follow-up to Snails To Slugs, Impaler, was released at the end of October. Similar to Chronicles, Impaler features all percussion instruments. However, Bell holds that Impaler is a bit "darker" than most of his previous work. On January 23, 2013, Trash Can Deluxe made its premiere at the very first annual SLAP, held at the Seattle Creative Arts Center, in Seattle, WA. Two weeks later, Bell released Climb Aboard Longhorn. Unlike the heavy percussive rhythms and peculiar instrumentation of recycled and repurposed objects of Trash Can Deluxe, Climb Aboard Longhorn is a work featuring almost no percussion at all but rather the flute, oboe, violin, cello, and piano. Veering in yet another–but at this time, an unknown–direction, Bell is expected to release a third compositional work for Spring 2013. Some of Donnie Bell's future projects include composing the soundtrack for an upcoming featured film based in Seattle, WA. Concurrently, the sequel to Chronicles is also in development as well. Bell is also expected to perform a variety of his past work at Studio 7 in Seattle on March 23, 2013 as well. Get more info and stay updated by subscribing to our mailing list list at http://donniebell.net/contact.