Drummer | Educator | Producer
EDUCATOR
Anthony currently holds a tenure-track assistant professorship at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. Anthony is committed to creating and delivering relevant experiential knowledge to students in a fun, practical, and accessible manner to achieve results.
Over the years, he has developed and taught various courses at several universities and colleges as an adjunct professor, clinician, and partial-load instructor.
While on tour, he has had the opportunity to present master classes, workshops, and clinics worldwide at several prominent music institutions in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and has also had the distinction of representing Canada as a cultural ambassador of music and education through the various Canadian Embassies and High Commissions abroad.
Courses at St. Francis Xavier University Department of Music (2023- current)
Music Technology & Sound - Creator/Professor
World Music History Survey - Creator/Professor
Jazz History Survey -Creator/Professor
Jazz Drum Set Private Study - Professor
Workshop Ensembles - Professor
Courses at York University Department of Music
Jazz Drum Set - Music Performance Tutor
Jazz Workshop Ensembles – Course Director
World Drum Set and Hand Percussion - Music Performance Tutor
Cuban Music - Course Director
Rhythmic Studies – Creator/ Course Director
Entrepreneurship for Artists – Creator/ Course Director
Careers and Business for Musicians – Creator/ Course Director
Courses at Centennial College
Drum Set Instrument – Instructor
Drum Master Class - Instructor
Musical Creativity & Production – Creator/Course Director
Ensembles in Popular music styles - Folk, Heavy Metal, Pop, Rock, – Instructor
Courses at Mohawk College of the Applied Arts
Jazz Drum Set - Instructor
Jazz Ensembles and Workshops – Instructor
Drum Master Class – Instructor
Music Production – Course Director
Introduction to Music Technology – Course Director
Business of Music – Course Director
Portfolio Development – Course Director
Courses at Humber College Community School
Jazz Drum Set - Music Performance Tutor
Arcadia Academy of Music
Syllabus and Pedagogy for Drum Lesson Program
Curriculum creator and developer levels 1 to 8
Education Cedentials
2008-2015 York University – Doctoral research (withdrawn in good standing) CROSS-CULTURAL,
CROSS-GENRE STUDY OF RHYTHMIC CONCEPTS Ph.D. Candidate - A.B.D. Final Stage of Dissertation
2004-2008 York University - Master of Arts – Ethnomusicology
RHYTHM: A SPECULATIVE AND PRACTICAL INVESTIGATION
1995/96University of Toronto - Bachelor of Arts - JAZZ PERFORMANCE
1997 Lake Placid Institute, Jazz Improvisation and Big Band Seminar
Summer big band jazz workshop led by Bob Brookmeyer, Jim McNeely Studied and performed with Bob Brookmeyer, Maria Schneider Big Band (with WDR trumpet section), Dick Oats, Bill Evans, Jim McNeely Big Band, Gary Peacock, Peter Erskine
1992 Banff Center for the Fine Arts, Jazz Program
Summer workshop led by Hugh Fraser
Studied and played with Kenny Wheeler, Anthony Braxton, Reggie Workman, Keith Copeland, Mick Goodrich, Robin Eubanks, Abraham Adzenyah,
Don Thomson
1990 Mohawk College for the Applied Arts - 3-year College diploma - APPLIED MUSIC IN JAZZ PERFORMANCE
Private Instruction Education
North American Instructors:
Peter Erskine; Joey Barron; Keith Copeland; Kenwood Dennard; Joel Rosenblatt; Jim Blackley; Barry Elmes; Bob McLaren; Vito Rezza; Kevin Dempsey;
John Cheeseman; Ernie Porthouse; Jean Norman Iadelucca - classical percussion; Frank Falco - Piano/ Theory; Dean Paul Pedersen – Audio Recording
World Music Instructors:
Rolando “el nino” Salgado Palacio – Cuban Music & Congas; Raimundo Sousa – Cuban Bata Drumming; Memo Acevado - Cuban and Brazilian Percussion;
Abraham Adzenyah – West African percussion; Ramon Montagner - Brazilian Drumming; Alan Hetherington - Brazilian Percussion; Escola de Samba de Toronto – Brazilian Batucada; Trichy Sankaran - South Indian Rhythm and Frame Drums; Ravi Naimpally – Tabla & North Indian Rhythm, Form, Composition