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Bill Marconi

LIVING,BREATHING DRUMS!

About Me

Since completing a Masters of Music in Percussion Performance Bill has persued a wide range of performing experiences including: The Jimmy Bruno Trio, The L.A.Jazz Workshop Big Band, Trio Nova, The Magic Casino Orchestra (Zurich)and various orchestras and opera companies. Bill presently has performed with The Bamboo Jazz Quartet, fusing jazz rhythms and Indian ragas,The Mighty Little Big Band & City Line Swing. He presently performs with Jazz Volcano. Bill has studied drumset with Jeff Hamilton, Greg Bissonette, Armand Santarelli, among others. He has studied with world percussionists Tony Vacca, Randy Crafton and Ustad Mohammed Lutfi. Bill also has extensive classical experience having been Principle Percussionist& Timpanist for 7 years with The Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey.He has also done stints with The Haddonfield Symphony, Bridgeton Symphony And the Whitewater OPera Company. He can be heard on the 2002 Trio Nova release “Parallel Lines”,and Adam Berenson's 2002 release, “ Stand In The Corner And Breath.” and the Bamboo Jazz Quartet cd,”Breath” Bill has recently finished a 2 duo recordings with Adam Berenson , “A Way Out”(2009) & A Codex of Silent Voices”(2010). A new trio album has just been released (2010),”Jnana”,Featuring Adam Berenson on Piano, Scott Burnam on Bass and Bill on Percussion.