Originally from Capetown, South Africa, I'm a NYC based professional drummer. I've studied at Berklee College Of Music (Boston, MA) and The Drummer's Collective (NYC).

I offer my students professional training in a fun, laid-back atmosphere.

Dr. Vince is a musician, guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, and a producer.
Vince has three cds out with one in Germany.
Dr. Vince has two master degrees one in music and in education with a PhD in Music
Vince was produced by" Badfingers" Joey Molland, which was the Beatles first band signed to Apple Records and also performed with the Del Vikings, Ben E. King, and many local groups
Vince wrote two instructional books one for guitar and vocal and is currently writing a book he also plans to record more music.

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.

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...

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,...

Brett is a drummer and music instructor from Brooklyn, NY. Brett first began playing music at 4-years-old at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. He began studying drum set as an elementary school student at the Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn, NY and continued studying and performing in Berkeley Carroll’s Jazz Program under the direction of Adam Bernstein.

Brett graduated with honors in Jazz Studies from the University of Michigan School of Music where he had the opportunity to study and perform with Sean Dobbins, Ingrid Jensen, Geri Allen, Bob Hurst, Andrew Bishop and Dave Liebman, among many other great musicians and educators. Brett has also attended the Berklee Summer Percussion Festival, where he studied with the drummer and bandleader Ralph Peterson. Additionally, Brett has studied drum set privately with Mike Mechem, Peter Davenport, and Michael Gould. In the summer of 2010, Brett traveled to South India to study with Tabla Guru Vidwaan Sri Ashok Pattar at the...

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,...

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...

Hi there,

Let me introduce myself, my name is Thomas a.k.a. Casual-T, and I'm a pretty alright kinda guy :) I am a professional drummer and have been teaching drums for a good many years now. I also write music for television and movies. Over the years I have had students of all shapes and sizes, my youngest student was about 5 years old, and my oldest was in his late 50's. I have a classical educational background, but I'm mainly performing in musical theater and with club date bands in and around New York City these days.

What I'm looking for in a student is first and foremost enthusiasm. As long as you are interested in learning I am interested in teaching you. So if you are looking for an experienced teacher who is fun as well as informative, and who has been an active professional in the music business for many years, call me and we'll talk.

Experience:
Live Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Gospel (as a drummer):
Performances with countless bands throughout Europe and the USA...

I love music, I love playing music, and most of all I love to teach music! I am a person who truly believes that giving someone an instrument and providing him/her with some direction can change their life.

I have a degree in Music Business/Management from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. I began playing drums since age 7 (after my mother grew tired of listening to me bang on pots and pans) and have been passionate about the instrument ever since. My home town is Washington DC, but I now reside in Boston as a free-lance musician and teacher. Over the years, I've had the pleasure of touring across the country, playing in world renown recording studios, and performing in front of large audiences. While fluent in all drumming styles, I specialize in rock, funk, pop, hip-hop, R&B, and jazz.

I have years of experience teaching students of all ages and skill levels. When I was in the DC area, I was very involved in the community as a high-school and elementary school...

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...

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.