Vern Griffiths joined the Vancouver Symphony as Principal Percussionist in 1997, and is also a member of the new music ensembles Standing Wave and the Turning Point Ensemble, as well as the National Broadcast Orchestra.  He has recorded with all four of these groups, and has also recorded soundtracks for Disney, ABC, IMAX, NFB, EA Sports, PBS, Lions Gate, and Dreamworks.  Other recent performance highlights include Steve Reich’s Drumming, Louis Andriessen’s Worker’s Union and performances with So Percussion for Music on Main, Bradshaw Pack’s Palimpsest for Festival Vancouver, Vancouver New Music’s Marginalia, Fuse at Vancouver Art Gallery, and UBC’s Wednesday Noon Hour and Pacific Spirit concerts.  Vern was a scholarship student of John Rudolph at UBC and Chris Lamb at the Manhattan School of Music, and is now the head of the percussion department at the UBC School of Music.