It is our ninth year to organize Taipei International Percussion Summer Camp (TIPSC) in 2008. In the past years, the scale of the Camp has been growing in fourth times. The reputation of Taipei International Percussion Summer Camp is undoubtedly established. The 10-days intensive percussion training focuses on students who have at least five years of percussion studies. To enhance the students' techniques and broaden their world perspectives during their percussion studies, the TIPSC provides a series of advanced curriculum to boost up the students' music potentials. Multiculturalism is the main theme of the TIPSC. The diversity of the curriculum is the major reason for which the Camp is so popular. In addition to Western percussion classes such marimba, drumset techniques and percussion ensemble, ethnic percussion takes an important part in the curriculum. To compare the difference of percussion between the East and the West and to introduce the "world percussion" to the students, the Camp specifically invites reputable ethnic percussionists from different cultures. It is our hope that the students can learn fundamental percussive skills of other cultures through the percussive professionals. The faculty of the previous TIPSC has included Leigh H, Stevens, She-e Wu, Zoltan Racz, Emil Richards, Steve Houghton, Paschal Yao Younge, Kalani, Gordon Stout, Keiko Namakura, Chalo Edurado, Owen Goldman, Masaki Otawa, Naoko Takada, and members of Ju Percussion Group. Updated 2008/07/10