Van Geem, Jack William, Jr.
(*1952)
VAN GEEM, JACK WILLIAM, JR. (3 Apr 1952, Oakland, California). Initially a wind instrumentalist, Jack Van Geem earned bachelor’s (1973) and master’s (1974) degrees from Hayward State University (CSU-Hayward) and studied with Anthony Cirone and Jerome Neff in the United States and Cristoph Caskel in Köln, Germany (1974). Percussionist with the San Francisco Ballet from 1975 to 1980, he has served as principal percussionist and assistant timpanist with the San Francisco Symphony since 1981…