A versatile percussionist, drummer, conductor and educator in the New York area, John Ferrari is active in genres from classical to pop and the avant-garde. He is a founding member of the Naumburg Award winning New Millennium Ensemble. Since 1993 he has been a member of Meridian Arts Ensemble, in residence at Manhattan School of Music, and is a regular guest artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Chamber Music Northwest. Musically involved in chamber, orchestral, pop, jazz, Broadway, dance, film and television, he can be heard on the Albany, CRI, Centaur CGNJ, Channel Classics, Koch International, Naxos, New World, Santa Fe New Music and Strange Music record labels. He holds DMA and MM degrees from SUNY Stony Brook, and a BM from William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey where he has been on the performing arts faculty since 2002.