Rob Ferguson

Rob Ferguson is currently the Director and Program Coordinator for Performing Arts, serving Matrix Independent World, Matrix Independent Open, and M3 Independent Percussion Ensembles. Rob also serves as the music designer for Matrix and has since its inception in 1999. Rob served as the  Percussion Arranger and Percussion Caption Coordinator for the Phantom Regiment from Rockford, Illinois, from 2014-2022 and the Percussion Coordinator and Percussion Arranger for the Glassmen Drum & Bugle Corps from Toledo, Ohio, from 2008-2012. Rob has served as a percussion representative for the Mid East Performance Association and currently serves as the Percussion Education Director for the Ohio Indoor Performance Association and as a member of the WGI Percussion Advisory Board. Rob holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Music in Music Performance from Kent State University where he studied with Michael Burritt and Ted Rounds. He previously served as adjunct percussion faculty and assistant marching band director at Youngstown State University, and currently is the Design Coordinator for Norton High School bands in Northeast Ohio, and the Program Coordinator for the Central Crossing High School Marching Band from Grove City, OH. 

Rob is an active clinician and adjudicator for both the indoor and outdoor marching activities. He has presented clinics on marching percussion, keyboard percussion, arranging, and amplification in the marching activity throughout the U.S. and in Europe including the 2007 PAS convention, the 2008 Indoor Percussion Europe Championships, and as a part of the 2016 Chiayi City International Band Festival in Chiayi City, Taiwan. Ferguson has also performed as a marimba clinician and guest artist with numerous high schools and college percussion ensembles. 

In addition to teaching, Rob works professionally as a designer, composer, program coordinator, and consultant for outdoor and indoor marching ensembles throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is the owner of Ferguson Design Solutions, a company providing custom arrangements, original compositions, consulting, and design resources for marching bands, drum corps, and indoor percussion ensembles in all major arenas of the pageantry arts. Rob currently resides in Cuyahoga Falls, OH. Rob is an endorser and clinician for Mapex & Majestic Percussion, Innovative Percussion, the Avedis Zildjian Co., Planet Waves, Pageantry Innovations, Field and Floor FX, and Remo Inc.