Rick Martinez is a Drummer, Percussionist, and Composer. He is a graduate from NYU’s Jazz Performance Program. In his years before college he played Timpani in the Peabody Youth Sinfonietta, participated in the Tanglewood music camp and played in the Berklee World Percussion Festival. He has studied with Tony Moreno, Wayne Krantz, Mike Richmond, Dave, Pietro, Tim Genis, Jonathan Haas, John Hadfield, Dafnis Prieto. More recently he has been working on independent music projects in New York and Portland.