Before coming to UA, Norman served as Director of Percussion at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas for eighteen years. He has performed as the Principal Timpanist/Principal Percussionist with the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra and as Principal Timpanist with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Evansville Philharmonic, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, and the Leonard Bernstein Festival Orchestra. Now Norman plays with the Arizona Opera and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. He has been awarded several grants to research the viability of using electronic percussion instruments as a teaching tool. He has presented seminars at many regional, national and international conventions. As a performer and co-director of the UA Electronic Percussion Ensemble, CrossTalk, Norman has performed at PASIC 1999, Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections, and the Arizona, Nevada, and California Days of Percussion.