Michael
@mwinnick
USA
Joined May 5, 2012
Michael Winnicki is an up and coming New Jersey based drummer and percussionist. He learned music early on, picking up the violin at age 6, and began playing drumset at age 8. Mike has studied drumset with Dave Anthony and Ron Glick and currently studies with jazz legend Victor Lewis (Woody Shaw/Dexter Gordon). Michael also studied classical percussion with Greg Giannascoli (NJCU/Julliard Prep) and currently studies with 1st call NYC freelancer Joe Tompkins (NYC Ballet/NY Phillharmonic). Michael is currently a second year student at Rutgers University as the first double performance major in both jazz and classical. Michael has various performance experience playing with various Rutgers Ensembles, Plainfield Symphony Orchestra, Bravura Philharmonic, Komeda Project, Symphony Novella and New Jersey Youth Symphony through which he made his Carnegie Hall debut at age 17. Through playing with Komeda Project (tribute quintet to the great Polish film composer Krszysztof Komeda) he has had the oppurtunity to perform along side many great jazz musicians of the NYC scene such as Jeremy Pelt, Russ Johnson, Michael Bates, and Don Falzone among others.
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