HISTORY

POW Percussion started as “Pulse Open” in 2011 receiving the bronze medal in the Independent Open class. The next season the ensemble was promoted to World Class and was a finalist its first year - hence the name “Pulse Open World,” POW. The ensemble has remained in the world class division ever since.

 

POW PERCUSSION
PLACEMENT HISTORY

2025 PIW: WGI 11th Place || SCPA 4th Place “Letters to My Younger Self”

2024 PIW: WGI 10th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “Drawn to the Flame”

2023 PIW: WGI 11th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “Asylum”

2022 PIW: WGI 10th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “Wonderland”

2020 PIW: Season cancelled due to COVID - “Jekyll and Hyde”

2019 PIW: WGI 8th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “Dia De Los Muertos”

2018 PIW: WGI 11th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “The Fate of Kings”

2017 PIW: WGI 11th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “Caged”

2016 PIW: WGI 13th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “Hands”

2015 PIW: WGI 12th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “What Do I Desire?”

2014 PIW: WGI 10th Place || SCPA Bronze - “Fahrenheit 451”

2013 PIW: WGI 17th Place (11th place before timing penalty) || SCPA Bronze - “Return to Innocence”

2012 PIW: WGI 10th place || SCPA Bronze - “Obsessed”

2011 PIO: WGI Bronze || SCPA Gold - “One Foot in Front of the Other”


POW PERCUSSION 2025 MEMBERS

SNARES

Sanji Nagata

Matthew London

Dylan Langenwalter

Finn Burns

Ken Yamada

Noah Molimoli

Esteban Mejia

Luis Ramirez

TENORS

Aiden Choi

Nathan Proctor

Dominic Ferrari

Niko Swe

Ethan Greek

BASS

Declan Lee

Eric Lee

Aiden Gamez

Kevin Phan

Lucas Kornilov

CYMBALS

Joseph Amaro

Audrey Hui

Ashley Lo

Imagin Flores

Marc Valencia

FRONT ENSEMBLE

Nathan Jalal

Sami P. Te

Daniel Espinosa

Cory Fairbanks

Oscar Chiang

Melody Gonzales

Sophia Munoz

Sussan Rivas

Mishou Liu

Aidan Banico

Visual

Brooke Bartholomew

Erick Marroquin

Shawn Green

Angie Li

Dee Tran

Kira Liu

Julie Nguyen

Ava Carr

Rylan Ravago

Aliyah Koya