Joseph Tompkins, percussion Joseph Tompkins has performed with most of the major orchestras in the New York City area, including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the New Jersey Symphony and the American Symphony. In the realm of new music he has performed with Speculum Musicae and Sequitur, and as a member of the Timetable percussion trio has been involved in a number of commissions and performances of new works for percussion. Tompkins has studied latin percussion at the Boys Harbor Conservatory and currently performs in the Lion King on Broadway. His works for percussion have been performed in Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom, and throughout the United States. In 2002 he was asked to compose a trio for the New York Philharmonic's percussion section, which was performed in April of that year. He and his wife, violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins, recently premiered a Duo For Violin and Percussion written for them by German composer Siegfried Matthus.