Dr. Kimberly Burja is a percussionist, composer and educator, whose career spans over 30 years. Dr. Burja has performed with the Ionisation New Music Ensemble, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Wide Open Arts at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and served as musician-composer for the American Dance Festival (Durham, NC). Her compositions have been played throughout the US and abroad including the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, SCOTLAND. Dr. Burja has studied many musical cultures from around the globe including a summer-residency in Ghana, AFRICA. In addition, she has been a guest lecturer at William Paterson University, New Jersey School of the Arts and at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC), where she presented a performance-lecture with World Music Percussion Ensemble Mbiradinda, on the amadinda xylophone from Uganda.
As an educator, Dr. Burja has taught at Rutgers University and the University of Miami, as well at several High Schools in Florida and New Jersey. She was a member of the Suncoast Sound Drum and Bugle Corp (1986), the University of North Texas award-winning PASIC Indoor Drumline (1989-1991) and served on the percussion staff of the Velvet Knights (CA) and Blue Knights (CO) Drum and Bugle Corps (1991). Dr. Burja is currently the Band Director at Tenafly Middle School and Executive Director of the NJ Arts Collective. She was a longtime summer percussion faculty member at the Interlochen Center for the Arts (Interlochen, MI). She has degrees from the University of North Texas (B.A.), University of Miami (M.M.) and Rutgers University (D.M.A.). She is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the New Jersey Arts Collective.
Dr. Burja has been an USBands judge for the past 15 years.
As an educator, Dr. Burja has taught at Rutgers University and the University of Miami, as well at several High Schools in Florida and New Jersey. She was a member of the Suncoast Sound Drum and Bugle Corp (1986), the University of North Texas award-winning PASIC Indoor Drumline (1989-1991) and served on the percussion staff of the Velvet Knights (CA) and Blue Knights (CO) Drum and Bugle Corps (1991). Dr. Burja is currently the Band Director at Tenafly Middle School and Executive Director of the NJ Arts Collective. She was a longtime summer percussion faculty member at the Interlochen Center for the Arts (Interlochen, MI). She has degrees from the University of North Texas (B.A.), University of Miami (M.M.) and Rutgers University (D.M.A.). She is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the New Jersey Arts Collective.
Dr. Burja has been an USBands judge for the past 15 years.