Drums/Percussion/Timpani/Mallets lessons
If you'd like to study privately in the northern New Jersey area, contact me and we can take it from there. jferdrums@aol.com
Influences
The Beatles, Buddy Rich, Steve Gadd, Peter Erskine, Igor Stravinksy, JSBach, Charles Wuorinen, John Cage, Jimi Hendrix, George Martin,...whatever I might have had for breakfast, the weather, Jesus/Ghandi/Buddha, my blood-sugar and cholesterol level, who I'm actually hanging with at the moment .... you get the idea.
BIO-
John Ferrari is active in classical, jazz, pop, Broadway, film, television and dance music, the avant-garde, and multi-media. He performs and gives master classes nationally and abroad, and appears on dozens of recordings as percussionist, drummer and conductor. He is a founding member of the Naumburg Award winning New Millennium Ensemble, a regular guest artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Chamber Music Northwest and has been a member of Meridian Arts Ensemble since 1993. This season launches new collaboration with Joe Burgstaller and Hector Martignon's New York Crossover Quartet. He has lately been heard in the Broadway orchestras of 'Curtains', 'Legally Blonde' and the new revival of 'Gypsy' in New York.
He holds DMA and MM degrees from SUNY Stony Brook, and a BM from William Paterson University where he serves on the performing arts faculty. In fall of 2007 he joined the faculty of Manhattan School of Music’s new graduate Contemporary Performance program.
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that my new album Afrikan Machinery is out now on Tzadik Records. Check out some of the tracks on my profile! You can buy the CD here, here, or here. It's also available on iTunes.
Best Wishes, Lukas Ligeti
