Peter Magadini

An internationally acclaimed performer, educator and author, Peter Magadini has played with artists including Diana Ross, George Duke, Mose Allison, Sonny Stitt, Chet Baker and John Handy. He as also played percussion with The Berkshire Music Festival Orchestra at Tanglewood, The Toronto Symphony and The Formm Festival of Contemporary Music at Carnegie Hall. In addition, Peter has performed as a studio musician in the US and Canada and has been featured on many recordings with his own quintet.

Mr. Magadini holds degrees from both the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto and includes among his teachers drummers Don Bothwell, Roy Burns, Timpanist Roland Kohloff and North India tabla master Mahapurush Misra.

He is a celebrated educator and the author of many popular and critically acclaimed volumes such as Musicians Guide to Polyrhythms, voted 6th on Modern Drummer Magazine's list of the 25 greatest drum books.

Peter is currently teaching drumset for the Brubeck Institute (University of the Pacific), at the Jazz School in Berkeley, at Haight-Ashbury Music and in his own private studio in Marin County California.

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