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Manuel Weyand

Manuel Weyand is a New York City based Jazz Drummer, originally from just south of Bonn, Germany. He began to play the drums, when he was just nine years old. In early 2004 he moved to the United States to take part in a summer program at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. In the fall of the same year he began his studies at SUNY Purchase, where he studied under Richie Morales, Kenny Washington and John Riley among others. In May 2008, he graduated with a Bachelor’s magna cum laude in Jazz Studies. Currently Manuel is pursuing his Master’s of Music at the Manhattan School of Music. His group “Meaningtone” placed second in the international Generations Jazz Competition in San Francisco, where the group received tutelage from venerable Jazz masters such as Eric Alexander, Ray Drummond and Jimmy Cobb. Manuel has been featured in many well-known U.S. Jazz Clubs such as Smalls NYC, Smoke NYC, Chris’s Jazz Café Philadelphia, and Yoshi’s San Francisco. He has also performed extensively in Germany, as well as in Spain, Hungary, Austria, and Israel. Currently Manuel is co-leading an exciting new Quartet with Saxophonist Nick Biello, called “Fourthought”

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