Andrew Drury

ANDREW DRURY--drummer/composer, mostly in free improvisation and jazz, sometimes in and around pop, klezmer, new music, performance art, street performance. A former student of Ed Blackwell he can be heard on about 20 CDs. He performs regularly throughout North America and Europe. Recently he released a solo CD “Renditions” (Creative Sources 094) and CD of improvisation with Michel Doneda and Jane Rigler entitled “Clean Brook Loose Too” (Sachimay Interventions). In 2008 Cadence will release “My Fingers Will Be Your Tears” a CD of his compositions for trio featuring Briggan Krauss and Myra Melford ............................................................ ......................................................Curren t projects include a percussion quartet with Jim Black, Mike Pride, and Mike Sarin and “Content Provider” a quartet that plays his compositions featuring Peter Evans, Briggan Krauss, and Chris Speed. He plays in Jason Kao Hwang’s EDGE, Totem, Rat Race Choir, Nate Wooley’s ADD, and has ongoing collaborations with Jack Wright, Brandon Seabrook, Jessica Lurie, Reuben Radding, and others. Other artists he has played with (recently or years ago) include Laura Andel, Ricardo Arias, Dean Bowman, Taylor Ho Bynum, Sebastien Cirotteau, Mark Dresser, Bruce Eisenbeil, Marty Ehrlich, Ken Filiano, Drew Gress, Mary Halvorson, Wayne Horvitz, Jihae, Mazen Kerbaj, Eyvind Kang, Adam Lane, Wade Matthews, Brad Mehldau, Andrea Neumann, Stephane Rives, Ernesto & Guilherme Rodrigues, Christine and Sharif Sehnsoui, Brad Shepik, Wadada Leo Smith, John Tchicai, Dicky Wells, Kenny Wolleson’s Himalayas with Butch Morris, Danijel Zezelj, and others……………………………………………… …………………………………………………… …………………………………………………… ………………………………………………Drury is also an educator who has led hundreds of workshops across the U.S. and in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and remote rural areas of Nicaragua and Guatemala. He has worked independently and through organizations such as the Manhattan New Music Project, Carnegie Hall Weill Institute, Artists & Communities, Very Special Arts, and the Washington State Arts Commission. He has toured homeless shelters in Indiana, worked with inmates in three maximum security prisons in Connecticut, taught at arts camps, worked in battered women’s shelters, and has led workshops with several Native American communities including a six month stint as artist in residence with the Oneida Nation on their reservation in Wisconsin. His students include people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities including kids with autism, blind and deaf students, students in private schools, “at risk” teens in New York City, immigrant populations, and graduate students at the Columbia University School of Social Work.