Mario Calandrelli:
Mario Calandrelli, drummer, percussionist, educator, clinician and " computer - drum machine programmer ", was born in Venosa, a small pleansant town lied in the bed of a lake - basin, in the north - east of Basilicata (a region in the south of Italy). His beginnings are very similar to a lot of other famous music mates' ones, drummers and no drummers. While still very young he demonstrated a gift for rhythm and music. The " fateful meeting " with drums occurred when he was only three years old.
The " fateful meeting " with drums occurred when he was only three years old.
While attending a family wedding he was dazzled by the sight of the drums. There was, in fact, the typical band cheering up the party. The next day, using pot lids, boxes and washing powder bins he began practicing ...
Online biography of drummer Joshua Jacobsen.
The first percussive sounds began with card board boxes, ice cream buckets, and old pans. Joshua, a mostly self taught musician at the age of 13 had realized his dream to become a drummer and pursued it.
Joshua began his first musical learning career in the musical setting at the Benton Community Middle / High School. At BC he performed in Jazz Band, Pep Band, Marching Band, Show Choir, Musicals, Concert Band, and even Concert Choir as a percussionist. He received numerous honors in Jazz band at Eastern Iowa Contests. One of the most notable awards is the most outstanding performance and Solo award presented by N.E.I.B.A. (North Eastern Iowa Bandmasters Association). Joshua has for over 8 years and is currently the drummer for the Billy K. Murray Parade & Concert Band based out of Atkins, Iowa.
The problem with high school was finding a band of his own. Since the school was a community school of about 400 people, there were few serious musicians interested in a rock band. As a result, A large amount of time and free time was devoted to focusing on technique and skills of various percussion instruments.
Upon enrolling at Iowa State University, Joshua begins to seek out musicians in order to fill the musical band void he had desperately craved throughout his life. Unfortunately, as a result of college dorm life Joshua was forced to abandon his drums and leave them to sit unbeaten at his childhood home. Practicing on pillows, boxes, trash cans, & Dorm Chairs with various acoustic guitarists in the dorm was his only way to practice and continue to develop as a drummer.
Joshua's first band was born in 2001. Mechanistry, a progressive rock group that surprised the local scene with a totally new sound and technically advanced musicians was born. Mechanistry performed throughout Iowa for 2 years. Unfortunately, it was inevitable that it would not succeed as guitar and singer turnover was high. The loss of drive to continue finding and training new members and no practice place, ultimately ended the group.
After the first year of playing with Mechanistry, Josh began playing with a local band named Atrophy. Atrophy was a simpler style of music that won over the bar crowd and nearly anyone that listened to the group. They also had the chance to open for Momento (Sony Records label). Atrophy is still performing today. A full length album is due out by 2005.
Today Josh is actively performing in the Des Moines based Heavy Metal band, Anubyss! He has also bridged over into the studio & recording realm as a Drum Technician at the Dawg House Recording Studio based in Nevada, IA and been sharing his knowledge and style through drum lessons since 2003 ...
Welcome to Marho bateren, the website of the young drummer Marho Bateren. Drumming for many years now, Marho has developed a wide variety of playing styles; these include funk, rock, gospel and Latin. With much experience playing live as well as recording, he is beginning to create a name for himself. Marho Bateren comes from the north western city of Liverpool, England. Liverpool is a city richly diverse in its culture and people. Liverpool recently won the European City of Culture in which Marho is heavily involved in. Although quite young, he is already making a name for himself in the drumming world already receiving interviews from the likes of MikeDolbear.com. Playing for most of his life, he has nailed a variety of drumming genres ranging from Latin to rock and excelling in r&b and hip-hop grooves and licks (as you probably just heard).
Gabriel Nuzzoli, drummer-percussionist:
studied Latin American percussion and drums in Cuba with Enrique Pla (Irakere) and Samuel Formell (Los Van Van) among others. I also studied with master percussionist Robin Jones who invited me to join his own big band in 1994.
I have been living in London, UK since 1992 and during my career I have had the opportunity to perform, tour and record with great artists such as Ricky Martin, Courtney Pine and Bobby Carcasses.
I have credits on over fifty recordings and between 1993 and 1997 I was offered a teaching post at the Musicians' Institute in London.
Unfortunately I was forced to quit my teaching as my schedule became too busy and, between 1997 and 1999, joined one of the top selling Italian band: 883.
Among others I have had the opportunity to perform, tour and record with the following artists:
'Mainstream'
Jocelyn Brown, Gloria Gaynor, Ricky Martin, Shaun Escoffery, Toyah Wilcox, Modern Romance, James Taylor Quartet, Stephen Gately, Funky LowLives, Nova Fronteira, Leon Ware, Courtney Pine, 883, Keziah Jones, Peppercorn, Daphne & Celeste and the London Community Gospel Choir ...
Luc Bergeron, originally from Lewiston, Maine, comes from a family of musicians and singers on both his mother's and father's sides, but is the only one in the family who had any interest in drumming. After much begging and pleading he was finally given a used drum set when he turned 12. His first formal lessons were with regionally well-known drummer and teacher Dick Demers.
Luc was a founding member of the rock band "Symmetry" while still in high school, which in 1986 recorded a demo that snagged national management (Fred Lewis - ex-mgr for "The Cars"), received radio airplay in Maine and Massachusetts, and generated major record label interest. The band played extensively through New England. After he left Symmetry in 1988, he spent a while wondering what he was going to do with his life, and decided to attend the University of Southern Maine as an English major during the fall semester of 1989. When he saw master drummer Steve Smith (Journey, Vital Information, sessions artist) in the spring of 1990 at a concert at the University of Maine in Augusta, it moved him to get serious about music, and so attended UMA's nationally known Jazz and Contemporary Music program ...