David Tedeschi
David Tedschi grew up in a family that immersed him in music at a very early age. In 2004, after finishing high school, Tedeschi was accepted into the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester under the Howard Hanson scholarship as one of the coveted and select drum set students. A student of Rich Thompson, Tedeschi found his niche in the Eastman community as a first-call drummer. His skills expand beyond any one genre including fusion, funk, classical, jazz, R&B, pop, country, and rock. He has studied under Jim Riley, Carl Allen, Ryan Korb, Cheryl Grosso, Chester Thompson and Adam Deitch. In 2005, Tedeschi was selected to play in the All-Star Ensemble at the Telluride Jazz Festival in Telluride, Colorado. Recently David has been featured with groups of varying styles at the West Palm Beach Jazz Festival, Chandler Jazz Festival and at the legendary Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Tedeschi worked with a thirty-piece orchestra at Camp of the Woods in Speculator, New York during the summer of 2007 and joined saxophonist Alex Graham for a summer residency at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in Michigan during the summers of 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
David Tedeschi has had the pleasure of having a studio of talented young percussionists since he was seventeen. At the Eastman School of Music David worked with the Community Education division and as an artist in residence and clinician for the Irvine School District in Irvine, California and the Yamaha music schools. In 2010 David was hired on as an adjunct faculty member at the Bay View Music Festival in Bay View, Michigan. Earlier this year (2011) David started teaching percussion and drum set for Kilroy Productions based in New York City.
Currently, David lives in New York City where he freelances and teaches on a regular basis. He is a member of the Matt Valerio Band, Jeremy Siskind Trio, the Eleventh Hour Band and plays frequently with Brian Keenan and Shauli Einav. It was with the Eleventh hour Bamd that David performed two tracks for Kanye West and Malik Yusef’s April 2009 release “Good Morning Good Night.”
