Maddy Dethloff

Maddy Dethloff is the percussion instructor at Mount Holyoke College and Deerfield Academy. 

As a performer, Maddy was a winner of the Southern Adventist concerto competition and performed Séjourné’s vibraphone concerto in Collegedale, TN. In 2022, she performed “Castine” by Stuart Saunders Smith at the Roulette in Brooklyn, NY. 

Internationally, Maddy has premiered music by Lila Meretzky with the marimba virtuoso, Ji Hye Jung, in taly. In South America, she performed in Colombia with Orquesta Colombo Americana de Vientos and, in Buenos Aires, with colleagues Ignacio Corrales and Ayano Kataoka. She also presented a masterclass at the Conservatorio de Astor Piazzolla. Maddy has gone on tour with Grammy award winning composer Tan Dun playing in Hong Kong, and in Changsha, Qingdao, and Shanghai, China. She played the music of John Cage, as well as world premieres of Tan Dun’s arrangement of “Rite of Spring” and his new concerto for Nao Bells. 

Active in her community, Maddy worked at her local New Horizons band with the senior citizens of Northampton. She has been involved with the production staff at Yellow Barn, in Putney, VT. Maddy also works for the Brooklyn-based percussion quartet, Sandbox Percussion.

Maddy received her Bachelor’s at Vanderbilt University studying under the direction of Ji Hye Jung and Lee Vinson, her masters from the University of Massachusetts Amherst under Ayano Kataoka, and a certificate from Bard College where she worked alongside So Percussion’s Eric Cha-Beech and Jason Treuting.