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Performance

Performed in concert with the following: GRAMMY award winning artists:

Dave Samuels, Oscar Stagnaro, Eguie Castrillo, Horacio "el Negro" Hernandez, Giovanni Hidalgo, Les Demerle Transfusion featuring Bonnie Eisle, Leroy "Hog" Cooper (20 years as Ray Charles's bandleader)

Performed in concert with numerous national and international artists such as:

Jim "Jimbo" Essery (Harmonica on Allman Brothers Enlightened Rogues and Reach for the Sky albums), Ricardo Monzon (Boston Pops), Felix Reyes (wrote title track on Susan Tedeschi's GRAMMY nominated Wait for Me CD), renowned African percussionist Aiyb Dieng (Trilok Gurtu, Herbie Hancock, Brian Eno, Mick Fleetwood's Jazz Africa), Gary Swinard (UFO, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame), surf-rocker Danny Morris (of Nighthawks fame), Sean Carney (2007 International Blues Challenge winner), Chris "Stovall" Brown, Sarasota Slim, James Peterson, Liz Mandeville, Little Jimmy Reed

In the Orlando region, I have performed with The Smokin' Torpedoes, Bird Dog Bobby & the Honeyhounds, Art Harris & the Z-Tones, The Road Dawgs, Big Rick & the Troublemakers, King Rockahula, Kid Dutch & the Perseverance Hall Jazz Band, The Porchdogs

Instruction

* Experienced private instructor, conducted master class, designed curriculum, implemented multiple teaching styles

* World Percussion Festival funk drumming instructor, Berklee College of Music

Professional Studies

  1. Jim Chapin - Author, Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer I & II
  2. Les DeMerle - Les DeMerle Transfusion featuring Bonnie Eisele, Sinatra, Manhattan Transfer
  3. Frank Briggs - Atlantic Starr, 805, Author
  4. Robert K. Schmidt - noted Broadway Pit Drummer/Jazz Master

Endorsements

Fibes Drums, Istanbul Mehmet Cymbals, Wuhan Chinese Cymbals and Gongs

Recordings

  1. King Rockahula - Ain't Doin Too Bad
  2. Porchdogs - Fido on the Bayou
  3. Anti M
  4. Sundown (FL CMA Band of the Year)
  5. Punda Melia
  6. Numerous tracks at Schuler Studios in Framingham, MA and Club 69 Studios.