John Ferrari is active in classical, jazz, pop, Broadway, film, television and dance music, the avant-garde, and multi-media. He performs and gives master classes nationally and abroad, and appears on dozens of recordings as percussionist, drummer and conductor. He is a founding member of the Naumburg Award winning New Millennium Ensemble, a regular guest artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Chamber Music Northwest and has been a member of Meridian Arts Ensemble since 1993. This season launches new collaboration with Joe Burgstaller and Hector Martignon's New York Crossover Quartet. He has lately been heard in the Broadway orchestras of 'Curtains', 'Legally Blonde' and the new revival of 'Gypsy' in New York. He holds DMA and MM degrees from SUNY Stony Brook, and a BM from William Paterson University where he serves on the performing arts faculty. In fall of 2007 he joined the faculty of Manhattan School of Music’s new graduate Contemporary Performance program.