Claus Hessler
Open Handed Playing
Drumset Master Class
Friday, 10:00 a.m.

Claus Hessler is currently teaching at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt and two other music conservatories in Germany. As an endorser for Sabian Cymbals, Vic Firth Sticks, Mapex Drums and Evans Drumheads, his teaching and workshop activities have taken him through most parts of Europe (including the Rioja Drumfest where he shared stage with Steve Smith, Alex Acuña and Dom Famularo) and Taiwan (together with Michael Burritt and Thomas McCutchen). As one of Jim Chapin‘s long time students, Claus also performed at the Jim Chapin Memorial Drum Event in NYC.  He is constantly writing for Drums & Percussion (currently the largest drum magazine in Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and contributing to international magazines like Australia's Drumscene. In 2011, he also began columns on OHP for Modern Drummer.

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