Meet our Team!

Marc Garside has been a percussion educator for over 20 years. His primary focus in that time has been marching percussion. He has performed in DCI and DCA, and since then he has taught and designed shows for several award winning programs. These include: The Caballeros, The White Sabers, Penn State Indoor Drumline, Williamsport High School, Shikellamy High School, Lake Lehman High School, and several others. Currently Marc is the Program Coordinator and drill designer for Fusion Core competing in DCA.
Marc started EPIC in 2013 when he started giving a handful of students lessons out of his house. Since then, EPIC has changed locations 3 times and has grown to over 60 students and 6 instructors.

He is the founder of Upbeat Outreach where he goes beyond general percussion education and also provides music therapy. Mike is the drummer for Cass and the Bailout Crew, and has also performed and recorded with many bands. He is endorsed by DW drums, Dream Cymbals, Prologix, Remo, Vater, Vratim, Randall May Innovations, Cymbolt, Humes and Berg, Big Fat Snare Drum, and Cymbolt.

When he's not out performing for crowds in the thousands on the weekends, during the week he's teaching lessons at EPIC Percussion.

Ryan Pritchard has been a percussion educator, composer, and artist for over 20 years. He has a Masters in Music from Mansfield University. Ryan currently performs with the Williamsport Symphony and is a Pearl/Adams artist. He performed as a snare drummer with the Bluecoats and Spectrum Drum and Bugle Corps, and was a snare drummer in the Bluecoats Alumni Corps in 2022. He has also taught and designed for the award winning Williamsport High School drumline.
Shorty after EPIC was founded, Ryan came on board and motivated EPIC's growth and evolution into what it is today. He brings not only musical expertise and knowledge, but his experience in business has proven to be the key to our growth and expansion into the retail realm.

