Juergen Peiffer

Juergen Peiffer is a very talented drummer, percussionist, composer, and arranger born in 1963 in Troisdorf/Germany. He started drumming at the age of nine. In 1983 he graduated from Musikhochschule Koeln (Cologne College of Music) passing a M.A. degree as a teacher of music. In 1985 he also passed a diploma in orchestral music (Musikhochschule Koeln) all while studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston, U.S.A. and in 1993 at the Drummers Collective in New York. He played with WDR Big Band, Rundfunkorchester WDR, Big Band des Hessischen Rundfunk, The Big Band Convention “ guest soloists like Jiggs Whigham, Al Porcino, Conte Candoli, Dick Oats - and numerous other renowned German Big Bands and Orchestras. Juergen was obviously influenced by Sperie Karas, Peter Giger, Wolfgang Ekhold, Clayton Cameron, Adam Nussbaum, John Riley, Ricky Sebastian, Bobby Sanabria, Duduka da Fonseca and Kim Plainfield all of whom he studied with. - Brazilian music is one of my favourites.