Marimba One Artists

Justin Lamb is an active performer, educator, composer, and arranger based in the metro-Detroit area, currently serving as the Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and the Percussion Area Coordinator at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Before moving to the Detroit area, Justin held various teaching roles with the Eastman School of Music (NY), the Eastman Community Music School (NY), James F. Byrnes High School (SC), Lakeside High School (GA), and League Academy (SC).

Committed to contemporary music and performance, Justin has premiered several new works for percussion by composers Paul Lansky, John Psathas, Michael Burritt, Baljinder Sekhon, Ivan Trevino, and more. Justin is also highly active as a commissioner of new works and has led and organized international consortiums to commission Connor Shafran, a performer/composer/multi-instrumentalist based in Cologne, Germany, and Brant Blackard, a percussionist and composer whose works have been performed at PASIC, the Eastman School of Music, and Oklahoma University. Available on all major streaming platforms, Justin can be heard performing on The John Psathas Percussion Project (JP3), Vol. 1. Recently, he performed with the JP3 ensemble at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in 2024 alongside renowned artist Fabian Ziegler. Justin also serves as the Principal Percussionist of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, and has been a featured musician with the ensemble, performing Michael Torke’s marimba concerto Mojave and John Williams’s Escapades. In his spare time, Justin continues to play regularly in orchestras and theater pits throughout Michigan.

 Passionate for teaching younger percussionists, Justin has taught extensively at middle and high schools in South Carolina and New York, including James F. Byrnes High School, League Academy, and the Eastman Community Music School. Additionally, outside of his work as a concert artist, Justin has also performed with Carolina Crown Drum & Bugle Corps (2013, 2014) and continues to remain active in the marching arts as an clinician, percussion arranger, and adjudicator. Moreover, in his free time, Justin enjoys arranging and composing in a variety of settings. His popular solo marimba arrangement of Misty by Erroll Garner has been performed all around the world and is available for purchase at Tapspace publications.

 Dr. Justin Lamb holds MM and DMA degrees from the Eastman School of Music­, where he was awarded the prestigious Performer’s Certificate, the Milton Schlesinger Percussion Prize, and the Arts Leadership Certificate. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Furman University. His teachers have included Michael Burritt, James Ross, Chip Ross, Rich Thompson, Dr. Omar Carmenates, and Justin Watt. Justin is a proud Marimba One Educational Artist and Black Swamp Percussion Educational Artist.