ArtistInfo

Daniel Kennedy

dr, US
Musician of Classical

American percussionist from California, who made his first musical education at the California Institute Of The Arts, followed up by a PhD at the Stony Brook University. His teachers were Raymond Des Roches, John Bergamo and tabla-master Swapan Chaudhuri. He founded several ensembles for contemporary music, like The California E.A.R. Unit and the Talujon Percussion Quartet. He performed throughout the US, Europe and Japan and recorded with several renowned contemporary artists and was interested in the music of other cultures such as India, Indonesia and the Middle-East. He is a percussion instructor at the California State University, Sacramento and artistic director of the Festival of New American Music.

Instruments

• Drums
• Percussion

Genres

• Classical
• Electronic
• Jazz

Plays With