Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 466 - Mike Mixtacki

Pete's Percussion Podcast - Pete Zambito · Oct 23, 2025

Episode 466 - Mike Mixtacki Pete's Percussion Podcast

University of Tennessee-Knoxville Adjunct Professor of Percussion Mike Mixtacki stops by to talk about his new gig, his many jobs in the college world so far, and connecting to the Eastern Tennessee percussion community (02:10), growing up in Madison (WI), his percussion and piano background, earning his Eagle Scout badge, and playing in lots of bands in his early years (21:15), attending the University of Wisconsin for undergrad and Indiana University for his master’s (39:10), working at Northern Illinois University (01:02:50), the…