Drum teacher with 25 yrs experience teaching and performing

Rob G.

Drummer, composer, educator, bandleader, Rob G. has been performing and teaching for over 25 years. He has performed with such important artists as Wynton Marsalis, Joe Lovano, Diana Krall, Myra Melford, Dave Liebman, Sheila Jordan, Vince Giordano, Woody Allen, Wycliffe Gordon and Joseph Jarman. Rob has released 8 critically acclaimed albums as a bandleader which feature such artists as Joe Lovano, Kate McGarry, Noah Preminger, Dan Tepfer, Gary Versace, Joe Martin, John Hebert, Dave Kikoski and Mike Formanek. His drumming can be heard on over 70 albums including Grammy winners. Rob has given private drum lessons to scores of students of all ages and levels.

He is on faculty for the NY Hot Jazz Camp, and has also taught ensemble and percussion classes at institutions such as the Brooklyn Music Factory, Berkeley-Carroll School, NYC Public Schools, the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and The British International School of NY. Rob has delivered masterclasses in the U.S. and Europe, and has performed in over a 150 school assemblies organized by Lincoln Center, Arts Horizon, Brooklyn Arts Council and other organizations.

He has also done workshops for aspiring musicians with NYU, the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz. Rob has been a major force in artist-run jazz organizations. He is the founder and artistic director of the non-profit Connection Works, a member of the Brooklyn Jazz Underground and a founding member of the Douglass Street Music Collective. Rob has a Masters of Music from SUNY Purchase and a B.A. in Psychology from NYU.