He is a native of Cambridge, OH and a student at the Michigan State University Jazz Studies Program. There he studied under Rodney Whitaker. He has had the privilege of working with many notable bandleaders including Johnny O’Neal and Wessell Anderson, Willie Jones III and Phillip and Winard Harper, Christian Howes and Houston Person, Tia Voller and Bria Skonberg. He is active as a national bandleader and educator and has participated in programs such as Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz for Young People, Christian Howes Creative Strings Workshop and Keith Hall’s Summer Drum Intensive. Appalachian Muse, a Midwestern arts initiative, is also his director. from www.georgedelancey.com
