Paul Peress is an American drummer, composer, and record producer.
11 Facts About Paul Peress
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Paul Peress started on violin when he was six years old, then played trumpet when he was twelve.
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Paul Peress's family moved after his father, Maurice Peress, became music director for the Kansas City Philharmonic.
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Paul Peress attended Hunter College, then Columbia University, achieving a BA in Economics.
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Paul Peress returned to Music full-time in 1998, as composer, drummer, and bandleader of The Paul Peress Project, and began touring almost immediately.
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The Paul Peress Project has appeared internationally: at the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz festival in Johannesburg SA, St Kitts Music Festival, Saint Lucia Jazz Festival, Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, Berkeley Jazz Festival, Heineken Jazz Festival, Kaslo Jazz Etc.
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Paul Peress has lent his services to Foundation Fighting Blindness, Farm Sanctuary, In Defense of Animals, and Humane USA, performing with Moby, The B-52's, Stephen Bishop, and Eileen Ivers.
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New-York Historical Society: Paul Peress produced four concerts in 2005 and 2006 paralleling NYHS's groundbreaking exhibit, "Slavery in New York".
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Lincoln Center: Guy Davis, Michael Hill, and Paul Peress Ossola were featured in a "Routes of the Blues" concert at Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, demonstrating the history of the blues.
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Merkin Concert Hall: Paul Peress was commissioned by Donald Maggin in 2007 to co-produce a concert titled "Jazz, The Religious Roots".
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Concert for Haiti: Paul Peress performed at the Hard Rock Hotel Punta Cana on April 30,2011, in a concert benefiting Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti Foundation to raise funds for Haitian earthquake victims.