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John Ferrari, Drums
John Ferrari enjoys a multi-faceted career
as a versatile classical and hand percussionist, drummer, conductor,
and educator in the New York area. He is a founding member of the
Naumburg Award winning New Millennium Ensemble and is
drummer/percussionist for Meridian Arts Ensemble-Brass &
Percussion. Frequent recipients of the ASCAP/CMA Award for Adventurous
Programming, both groups have collectively released ten critically
acclaimed recordings. Between these groups and others he has toured
extensively as both performer and clinician in the U.S., Europe,
Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean and Asia.
Ferrari is a frequent guest artist of the Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center and Chamber Music Northwest, and has
performed and recorded with most notable chamber-music organizations
around New York, including: Bang On A Can All-Stars, Columbia
Symphonietta, Cygnus, Da Capo Chamber Players, Empire Brass, Gotham
Simphonietta, The Group for Contemporary Music, Locrian, New Band, New
Jersey Percussion Ensemble, New Music Consort, Orion and Peterson
String Quartets, Parabola with composers Carter Burwell and Stephen
Endelman, Patrick Grant Group, Perspectives Ensemble, Riverside
Symphony, SEM, Sequitur, Solisti New York, and Talujon Percussion
Quartet.
Musically active in chamber, orchestral, pop, jazz,
Broadway, dance, film and television, he can be heard on the Albany,
CRI, Centaur CGNJ, Channel Classics, Koch International, New World,
Santa Fe New Music and Strange Music record labels. Mr. Ferrari holds
DMA and MM degrees from SUNY Stony Brook, and a BM from William
Paterson University in New Jersey where he has been on the performing
arts faculty since 2002.
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