A busy professional drummer/composer, Sean has a Bachelor of Music from the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music and also plays piano, bass and guitar.
Only 27, Sean has launched an impressively diverse career, crossing over musical worlds to perform with jazz artists such as Maria Schneider, Dave Douglas, Shelly Berg, and Alan Pasqua to rock veterans Warren Haynes of the Allman Brothers, George Porter of the Meters, Michael Shrieve of Santana, Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads and Greg Ginn of Black Flag. He also tours and records with contemporary pop outfits Francis and the Lights, Shenandoah and the Night, and 2AM Club.

Music has been a part of my life since before I can remember, going back to the days of pots and pans until finally getting my first drum set at age 3. Despite taking piano and guitar lessons in middle school, I always wound up back at the drums. Throughout high school I was involved in as many music ensembles as possible: concert bands, jazz bands, madrigal and concert choirs, winter percussion ensemble, and marching band. I also played drums in a few local bands that ranged in many styles: rock, jazz, latin, punk and ska. Amidst all these groups, I studied all four years as well with my band director/renown drummer, Ed Argenziano, one on one, fine tuning my fundamentals and building the proper habits and tendencies that have stuck with me to this day. I went onto Rutgers University where I received a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice and a minor in Music in 2007. There, I sang in two a cappella groups, played drums in pit orchestras for Rutgers theater groups and helped...

I was born in Amsterdam, Holland, where my father worked as an opera singer. While listening to vocal warm-up arpeggios, my mother bounced me on her knee and taught me rhythms and rhymes.

In my family we beatbox, play piano, sing melodies, and are generally just musical. The family moved to the States in 1995 where my parents worked as music teachers. My Dad is a voice professor at the University of Wisconsin, and my Mom runs an amazing music program at Country View Elementary School in Verona, WI.

In the small town of Verona I played in the band program throughout high-school where I had an amazing and demanding music teacher and highly talented friends. The Drumset became my passion and I played, blissfully and recklessly, as often possible.

The band program led me to classical and contemporary music at the University of Wisconsin, where I honed my craft and discovered the profound breadth of music around the world. I worked as a member of the WI Army National...

Shayna is a percussionist who was active in the San Francisco Bay Area for several years before moving to Brooklyn, New York. Shayna has worked as a teacher of percussion, piano, music theory and history for over five years and has a great deal of experience working with children, high school students and adults. She performs classical, contemporary, avant-garde, rock and pop, among other genres in the US, Japan, and Europe. She has recorded for many accomplished composers around the world and she is an active member of various ensembles and bands both in New York and the Bay Area.
Graduating with honors in both music and mathematics from Mills College in Oakland, CA in 2007, she studied percussion under William Winant. At the end of her time at Mills, she was awarded with the Friedberger Cup Award, which is given to the best music student of the year. Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan to an Indonesian mother and a Jewsih-American father, Shayna began playing Electone at 3,...

David, drummer, pianist, composer, and teacher, has been living, teaching, and performing music in and around New York City for over 30 years. He has a bachelors degree in music composition from Mannes College Of Music.
Before coming to New York, David had studied with some of the best performers in the world, including jazz drummer Joe Morello, from the Dave Brubeck Quartet. On piano he had studied from jazz pianist Keith MacDonald, who had given David a very solid background in both classical and jazz, and he had also helped encourage David's first attempts at musical composition.
Originally from Watchung, New Jersey, David began performing professionally in local rock bands when he was 14 years old. Later, in his high school years, David began playing with wedding bands and jazz bands, performing in local clubs, restaurants, and catering halls.
During this time, David had begun to develop a passion for music composition, which eventually led him to Mannes College Of Music,...

Yuichi H. was born in Tokyo, Japan. His musical career started at age 10 when he performed marimba in a music recital. He started playing drum set at age 14 and joined a wind ensemble, a few rock bands, and a jazz big band. With some of these groups, he performed at several live music venues in Tokyo. In 1991, he composed the music and performed drums and percussion in a production of Othello, at The Globe Tokyo Panasonic Theater.
In the fall of 1991, with a full scholarship, he attended Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA. He studied jazz drums mainly with Joe Hunt and Jon Hazilla, and orchestral percussion with Dean Anderson. Also, he took many classes in jazz composition and arranging with Gregg Hopkins and Jeff Friedman. He was the recipient of "The Cuccinello Percussion Award" and the "Berklee Percussion Department Achievement Award." Outside of the school curriculum, he joined several bands and performed at several venues such as the Willow Jazz Club, Middle East...

I would not be the person I am today if music wasn't the focal point in my life as it is. Not only do I absolutely love performing and studying music myself, but I adore teaching as well. Part of the musical experience is taking what you hear and what you learn from others and building on it to create your own musical contributions. I take the gifts other teachers and musicians have given me very seriously and subsequently feel the great importance of imparting my knowledge unto others.

Whether you want to be a professional, or just be competent enough to enjoy yourself, we all practice, study technique and gain knowledge about music with really only one goal in mind: To have all the tools necessary to express ourselves adeptly through music. All the technique in the world will not make you a great musician. At the same time, you can be extremely creative and knowledgeable, but if you don't have the technique and vocabulary needed to express your ideas, you will find yourself...

Upon my recent graduation from The New School For Jazz and Contemporary Music, I am currently working as a drummer, composer, bandleader and teacher living in Brooklyn New York. Although drums are my primary instrument I also play, teach and perform on piano, which for the most part I am self taught. I have some classical experience on the piano and can teach beginner classical music, but my strong suit is Jazz piano. Whether on piano or drums I love to teach and to help students reach their goals through a practice regiment that is catered specifically to their needs. I am very interested in what type of music the student is interested in and what THEIR musical goals are. Not every student is alike. Some are very serious about making music their life, but others might just want to learn a few things in order to play and have fun with it on their own terms. That being said, I am experienced in teaching students from all skill levels, ages and musical interests. I myself am a...

I was born in Caen, Normandy, France.

I studied drums and percussion and obtained a unanimous first-prize at the Seine Saint-Denis drums competition. I also attended workshops under the direction of great drummers such as Max ROACH, Clifford JARVIS and Jack DeJOHNETTE.

I performed in virtually in every major jazz club in Paris (New Morning, Duc des Lombards, Sunset, Petit Opportun, Manhattan Jazz Club, Sunset), in various Jazz Festivals and I also played in Germany and Italy.

At the same time I started teaching regularly in four conservatories (Arcueil, le Pré-St-Gervais, Epinay Sous Sénart and Chevilly) for more than 10 years until I moved to New York. I taught private lessons for drums and percussion, and also numerous workshops for kids, teens and adults.

After a lesson with the legendary Jimmy COBB in 1992 during a visit to the United States, I decided to move to New York. I was finally able to do so in 2000, and I have been living and performing here since then.

Sharon is a professional musician from the small town of Rehovot, Israel. She fell in love with music at the age of 10, when her father bought her her first drumset. At that time she was studying in Africa with a local, playing everything by ear and watching videos of her favorite drummer, Steve Gadd, to learn his magical paradiddle tricks. After the family uprooted to the United States, Sharon joined her high school Jazz Band, Orchestra, Marching Band, and Percussion Ensemble. It was only then, in her junior year of high school that she realized that she did not want to do anything else but music. In 2011, Sharon graduated Berklee College of Music with honors and is currently teaching, performing, composing, and... well, living life in Brooklyn NY.

I started playing drums in my parents' basement when I was 9 years old. It was just me, a stereo, and a bunch of cardboard boxes I made into my first drumset. Every day, I listened to to my favorite songs over and over again to figure out how to play them. To me, there was nothing more awesome in the world than music.

Since then my musical journey has taken me far and wide. I've studied percussion and composition with world class teachers, toured Europe, composed music for commercials, co-written award winning songs, and performed with a variety of artists at such venues as the Hard Rock Cafe, BB King's, World Cafe, 55 Bar, The Living Room, The Bitter End, and many others. And the one thing that hasn't changed? I'm still totally in awe of it all.

These experiences have helped me to create my own style of teaching that's tailored to each student, whether they want to learn music purely for the enjoyment of it, or take their studies further. Sharing my knowledge and life...

Hello to all!

My name is Bob. Originally from New Hampshire, I'm a professional musician/teacher with a incredibly deep passion for what I do. I'm a graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. While attending school at Berklee I was able to meet many different people and learn about an array of musical styles. I also was able to travel to Japan for a tour with the incredible pianist Manami Morita. Currently I play with a number of musical acts in NYC including The Groove Shop, Leah Cooper and The Human Equivalent, Johnny Arco, and the world-music live improv group The High Breed.

Teaching background...

I've taught lessons for more than 8 years now privately and group lessons. In highschool I taught incoming students and middle school students, privately and in group settings, as part of a student teaching program my school offered. I continued teaching privately while attending Berklee in Boston. Soon after I started teaching at a non-profit...