Florida Keys Drum Academy

Taught by Bjarne Jannik Kjaer

Bjarne is a drummer, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist who plays drumset, percussion, piano, mallets and steel pan, and sings. He holds a master’s degree from Denmark’s Royal Academy of Music and studied drumset and percussion at Drummers Collective in New York and at Grove School of Music in Los Angeles, on a scholarship he won in the Louie Bellson International Drumset Competition in 1992.

He has toured internationally with Las Vegas and Broadway headliners and opened for The Police, The Beach Boys and UB40. He played on a Latin Grammy-nominated album and on television soundtracks for ABC Disney, recorded with Victor Wooten, and has released music on Sony (Replay Records) and the Japanese label P‑Vine. He has played with Denmark’s TIVOLI Big Band, the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra and Pat Boone’s Big Band in Branson, spent a decade in production shows for cruise lines including Crystal Cruises, and performed for years at Disney World, Universal’s CityWalk and SeaWorld. On the island music scene he has opened for reggae artists including Inner Circle, Maxi Priest, Third World and The Wailers.

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