Meet the Daniel Glass Trio, three of New York's best and toughest session musicians. The band is led by award-winning drummer, author and educator Daniel Glass. The musicians include Sean Harkness on guitar and Michael O'Brien on bass.

The trio has collaborated with an impressive roster of top artists including Bette Midler, Harry Connick Jr, Liza Minnelli, Brian Setzer, Royal Crown Revue, Janice Siegel of The Manhattan Transfer, KISS frontman Gene Simmons, Trey Anastasio of Phish and Jose Feliciano, actress Kathleen Turner, Mike Ness of Social Distortion and "Countess Luann" de Lesseps of the Real Housewives of New York.

The trio performs regularly throughout the US and Europe, bringing their dynamic sound to a wide range of audiences and venues. From intimate club gigs to festival stages, the Daniel Glass Trio offers a musical experience that is as captivating as it is unforgettable.

Die Schlagzeugmafia are five tactful crooks who spread neither fear nor terror in their fast-paced forays through percussive worlds of sound - on the contrary: they don't do anything crooked here, they twist sticks.

With craftsmanship, charming repartee and an astonishing wealth of ideas, every beat offensive is
and an amazing wealth of ideas, every beat offensive by this gang is a sure-fire coup. These are professionals at work: virtuoso drummers and captivating entertainers in one. Five humorous players who have the next ace up their sleeves after every amazing moment of surprise. The Drum Mafia performs in a variety of formats: from a 10-minute pop-up concert to the full-length show "Backstreet Noise".

A look at their record shows that the Mafiosi are no longer petty criminals. They have been putting their charm and their sticks to good use since 2010. Awarded the Kleinkunstpreis BW 2015 and the Niederstätter surPrize 2018, entertainers in front of millions of TV viewers in the final of the RTL program "Die Puppenstars" and as
Collaborators of the artist Joris at the Echo Show 2016. The clients from politics (Federal Ministry of Economics), industry (BASF, Porsche, Mercedes Benz, Otto), culture (lit.Cologne, New Pop Festival) and the media (SWR, Arte, RTL) are left with the enthusiastic confession at the end: Mission accomplished!

Dirk has played live with Gloria Gaynor, Inga Rumpf, Cunnie Williams and worked for the Kammerspiele Hamburg. Dirk has drummed for Gloria Gaynor, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Nana, Pee Wee Ellis, West Bam, Cunnie Williams, Such a Surge, Vanilla Ninja, Ofra Haza, Inga Rumpf, Rolf Zacher, Hamburg Blues Band, Naomi, Reggie Worthy, Joe Withney, The Wright Thing and his own band D-Phunk. Dirk was a founding member and for many years a permanent drummer in the German hip hop/jazz formation Jazzkantine and the Berlin techno drum ensemble "Drum Connection". With Jazzkantine he was awarded the biggest German music prize, the 'Echo' and the 'Jazz-Echo'. The magazine "Drums & Percussion" described him as a "groove master made in Germany".

Joe Styppa - As a drummer, producer and show director, he is now an integral part of the teams behind Germany's pop and hip hop elite. Whether as a drummer, musical director or producer, he has always found exactly the right sound. Secluded in his Allgäu studios, he has developed his very own musical and personal style. He embodies class and individuality. With his solo project and as a drummer & producer, he transcends genre boundaries and combines musical creativity with technical expertise. The result is an astonishingly diverse range of high-quality songs and an enormously individual approach to drumming. Urban pop meets rap and indie. Authentic and moving art on the ravages of time.

In recent years, Joe has worked with artists such as Badmómzjay, Cassandra Steen, Kool Savas, Bausa, Cro, Azet, Zuna and many more.

Born in 1971 in Freiburg/Breisgau, Chris Heiny is now a professional drummer and freelance drum teacher in Berlin.
Chris has been an active part of the rock and pop music scene in Germany as a drummer and percussionist for more than 30 years.

After a classical music education and seminars at the Future Music School in Aschaffenburg, he attended workshops and master classes with Gary Cheaffey, Udo Dahmen, Gregg Bisonette, Thomas Lang, René Kramer, Claus Hessler and many more.

Chris can look back on numerous tours, TV appearances, live gigs and studio recordings through his engagements with bands and projects such as Bosse, Tom Lüneburger, Mariannenplatz, Joachim Deutschland, Leichtmatrose, Rocky Horror Show, Jamilia, Stefan Krawczeck, Peter Wiegand, Beat Olympic, Silly, The Voice of Germany, Schmitt/Heiny, Berliner Ensemble.

With the drum trio Playmobeat, he has realized his dream of his own drum project.
drum project. The three drummers are well known in the international
drumming scene, including through their self-produced videos on YouTube.

His twenty-year engagement with the Blue Man Group took him to
Oberhausen, Stuttgart, Basel, Zurich, Stockholm, Vienna and Berlin.
Chris currently gives professional trainings at Dumtrainer Berlin and swings the drumsticks with Bosse and Blue Man Group.

With more than 30 years of touring and recording experience with renowned artists such as: Alice Cooper, Paul Rodgers, Uriah Heep, Midge Ure, W.A.S.P., Primal Fear, Annihilator, Bif Naked, Destruction, Udo Lindenberg, Bonnie Tyler, Kim Wilde, Marco Mendoza, Skew Siskin, DuskMachine, Striker, Rebellion and many more, Randy Black has been dubbed "Mr. Flexible" by German drum magazine STICKS for his ability to play with diverse artists with a wide range of styles.

Randy is a Canadian-born drummer and artist best known for his work as drummer for Primal Fear, Annihilator, DuskMachine, Bif Naked, Rebellion and Skew Siskin and has recently shared the stage with such legendary artists as Alice Cooper, Paul Rodgers, Uriah Heep, Bonnie Tyler, Eric Bazillian, Joe Lynn Turner and many more.

Although Black's acoustic drum configuration is not unique in the realm of drumming, Randy's playing style is characterized by his ability to play with a symmetrical set of cymbals on both sides, with a double set of remote hi-hats and ride cymbals to his right and left respectively.

As an officially certified trainer for the drum circle method according to Arthur Hull (VMC, since 2017), Ben Flohr has trained and educated several hundred people from a wide range of professions on this topic in recent years.

Born in Lower Saxony, he spent most of his younger professional life as a professional drummer and drum teacher before beginning his training as a drum circle facilitator with drum circle forefather Arthur Hull in 2009. Since then, he has been traveling nationally and internationally as a facilitator of "Rhythm-Based-Events".
In this capacity, he has conducted countless DCs for companies, schools, kindergartens, care facilities, the public, friends and just for fun. The number of participants has always fluctuated slightly, from eight people to more than seven hundred.
Since 2016, Ben has been the contact person for drum circles, recreational music making and education at GEWA Music, the European distributor of the Remo, DW, Gretsch Drums, Paiste, Gibraltar and Latin Percussion brands.

I've been a professional musician since I was 22. Initially, I played in many different bands in Braunschweig and gave some lessons.

In my mid-20s, I joined the band "Sweety Glitter". We played an incredible number of gigs. That time was a great lesson for me in terms of playing on big stages. I stayed exactly until my 30th birthday.

At the same time, I did my first studio jobs and played a lot of jazz and fusion to keep everything that interested me in balance. After a short guest appearance with Andy Scott's Sweet, where I stood in for their drummer several times, I met Alex Conti at a studio job in 1996. Alex invited me to play on his solo CD. Later he took me into the band "Rockship", which he had founded with Inga Rumpf. We played together for 4 years.

During this time and to this day, I've done a lot of studio jobs and mixed in various projects - very often in Hamburg, "my musical home".

I have had my own studio, label and publishing company since 2000. Here I record the drums for other artists, produce or do both, as with the productions of my friend Britta Rex, Clem Clempson, Dietmar Osterburg, Tadeusz Jakubowski or, after our reunion with Alex in 2012, for the "Lake" album "Freedom".

Lui Ludwig started his drumming career in 1984 as a self-taught drummer. After his first club appearances, he co-founded a well-known German band with which he played on major stages until 2004 and recorded 6 albums. In 1995, he founded his fusion jazz trio Jazz Pistols; the band has released seven albums to date and played on eight major tours in 33 countries, 23 of them in Africa alone. An important part of these tours were not only the concerts, but also the workshops that Lui Ludwig gave in many places.

Lui Ludwig has worked with many well-known artists, on stage, in the studio or in front of the camera, such as Chaka Khan, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Chris Norman, Nosi Katzmann, Joss Stone, Jeff Beck, Laith Al Deen, Gregor Meyle, Xavier Naidoo, Söhne Mannheims and many more. He was musical director for percussion at Autosymphonic, a major multimedia show in Mannheim in 2011.

His great passion is the claves and polyrhythms, which are not only reflected in his distinctive playing. Lui Ludwig also likes to pass on his knowledge in workshops and band coaching sessions at home and abroad.

He has been a permanent member of the teaching team at the Popakademie Mannheim from the very beginning, specializing in rhythm, micro- and macrotiming, claves and, of course, movement, sport and improving posture when playing drums.

In his playing, Stephan Emig combines conventional drums with the sound possibilities of percussion instruments and electronics to create an independent, creative style.
As a drummer, percussionist and specialist for Ableton Live, he is a sought-after sideman at concerts, TV productions and studio recordings.

His references include worldwide appearances and studio work with Chris De Burgh, The Voice of Germany in Concert, Klaus Lage, Stefanie Heinzmann, De-Phazz, Hamid Baroudi, triosence, Gregor Meyle, Jazzkantine, Mario Novembre, Zoe Wees, Nico Santos, Marquess, Florian Künstler, Quadro Nuevo and many more.

As part of the TV band "Sprengstoff", the "Pop Meets Classic" band and the "All Hands On Deck" band, he has accompanied artists such as Revolverheld, Alvaro Soler, Max Giesinger, Sarah Connor, Natasha Bedingfield, Joris, Tim Bendzko, Eko Fresh, Nina Chuba, Alligatoah, Conchita Wurst, Kelvin Jones, Wilhelmine, Afrob, Laith Al-Deen, Chefket, Lina, Die Happy, Leony, Tom Gaebel, Stoppok and many more.

He has been resident drummer and producer at Bighouse Studio Hannover since 2024.

He studied at the Los Angeles Music Academy and is now a sought-after workshop lecturer himself. He currently teaches at the Popakademie Mannheim and the IfM at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences.

In 2019, he published his book 5 Ways to More Musicality, which was very well received in the trade press. The English version 5 Habits of a Musical Drummer followed in 2021. He works with the contents of these books in the field of personal coaching and adult education.