Jerry Charvat

Media

Jerry Charvat resides in Pensacola, Florida, and is a University of West Florida graduate with a Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design. He began his marching career playing trumpet with Escambia HS and cymbals in their indoor percussion group. His marching experience includes Southwind Drum & Bugle Corps 2007 and Music City Mystique 2008.

Jerry has consulted with many ensembles across the Gulf Coast including Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida ensembles in both cymbal instruction and visual programming for nearly 2 decades. He was the cymbal tech for the Escambia HS Diamonds Indoor Percussion Ensemble from 2005 to 2019. He has provided cymbal instruction to the Florida State University Marching Chiefs, Big 8 cymbal line since 2010, Pioneer Drum & Bugle Corps, in 2013, the University of South Alabama Jaguar Marching Band cymbal line since 2014, Spirit Drum & Bugle Corps 2017, and Southwind Drum & Bugle Corps from 2016 to 2020. He has annually served as the lead cymbal clinician for the North West Florida Percussion Arts Society Day of Percussion. His experience as an educator in the Gulf Coast region earned him an induction into the Gulf Coast Guard and Percussion Circuit (GCGPC) in 2022.

Jerry is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, a program coordinator for the Center for Behavior Analysis at UWF, a media specialist/graphic designer for Seavine, and freelances as a videographer, photographer, and graphic designer.