Jeffry McQuillan

Teacher

Instruments: 

Private, Group Lessons In Percussion, Piano, Bass Guitar, Vocal, Congas, Song Writing, Composition

Music Genres: 

All, Including Popular Music, Salsa, Brazilian Samba, Ghanaian Drumming

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Composing

Performing

Special Events

Recording

Video & Online Lessons

HT Group

Bio

My role as a teaching artist is to move and inspire my students by teaching them instrumental skills and by making them aware of the human elements of music. In my studio environment which accommodates both private and group lessons students have the opportunity to grow individually and to experience the joy of playing music in a band. Whether teaching piano guitar or drums my method is based on the internalization of rhythm. As bass-guitarist for the Salsa band Mikata I perform regularly at Mohegan Sun and at universities festivals and nightclubs throughout the East Coast.


As creator of DrumTales I am sponsored by the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Connecticut Storytelling Center and Young Audiences to tour schools throughout Connecticut as a musician/storyteller and Connecticut State Troubadour sharing traditional folk tales accompanied by guitar and drums.


As artist instructor for the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts I teach traditional Ghanaian drumming Salsa music Brazilian Samba and a variety of genres of popular music introducing students to the piano trumpet bass guitar guitar drum set congas timbales and other percussion instruments.


My compositions have been featured on Sports Illustrated Television AT&T Model Success ABC College Basketball
Woman?s Day w/Phyllis George TNN Jerry Springer Show
Teichiku Records Tokyo Japan
My education has included the following:


Master Drumming at Dagbe Cultural Institute Ghana West Africa


Salsa dance classes with Richard Hill Jeff Hudson Allysa Bowen


Ghanaian music and dance with Freeman Kwadzo Donkor at Wesleyan University


Ghanaian Haitian Cuban music with Richard Hill


Puerto Rican bomba with Heny Alverez


Trumpet with Roger Murtha at Wesleyan University

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