Ari Hoenig

Innovative Jazz Drummer and Composer

Philadalphia jazz drummer, composer, educator born in 1973. He attended Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts in 1990 and the University of North Texas College of Music in 1992 for three years and was a member of the One O' Clock Lab Band. In 1995 he transferred to William Paterson College in New Jersey and moved to New York a year later. Hoenig has taught and is on the faculty at New York University and The New School in New York. He gives clinics and lectures at music schools and universities worldwide. He has played with musicians as Jean-Michel Pilc, Shai Maestro, Tigran Hamasyan, Tivon Pennicott, Chris Potter, Chris Tordini, Dan Weiss and Gilad Hekselman.