ABOUT

QUICK BIO - IVANUE FALL
Ivanue Cassanti is a sicilian born drummer and percussionist based in NYC. After playing in the local big band and studying privately as a teenager in Sicily he moved to NYC to hone his craft thanks to the opportunity to study with the great Gary Chaffee. Following that he moved to Senegal for a few years, Deepening his understanding of rhythm and drumming by studying with disciples and pupils of the legendary master drummer Dou dou Ndiaye Rose. Out of that experience he envisioned a multi stylistic approach allowing him to bring the senagales percussion training into the drumset and from there into a variety of musical settings. He moved back to NYC to graduate at the Collective School Of Music, while getting vast experience playing in the city with numerous bands. Nowadays Ivanue keeps expanding his vision by travelling the world to dip
himself into a large variety of cultures and styles, while working as a sideman all over the globe and freelancing in the pop songwritting and the jazz worlds . As a leader he has developed
PERCUDRUMMER, a solo based project which has developed both as an artistic performance and an healing transformative experiential workshop.