Jeremy Cohen is a Boston-based composer, educator and percussionist. He holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (B.A., Music) and the New England Conservatory (M.M., Jazz Composition) and has studied traditional Ewe drumming and dancing in Ghana under the world-renowned Agbeli brothers. He recently left his post as Music Director at the Umana Middle School in inner city East Boston to found ThisWorldMusic, a consultancy firm with the mission to increase the presence of African drumming in the music curriculum nationwide.
Highlights of his work as a consultant and clinician include time spent as an adjunct faculty member at UMass Amherst (graduate level); as a professional developer for Providence, RI and Oakland, CA Public Schools; and as a consultant for MusicianCorps, a project of the Music National Service Initiative, for which he is also a trainer and mentor teacher. Mr. Cohen is a member of the acclaimed Agbekor Drum-and-Dance Society, an ensemble led by pioneering ethnomusicologist and percussionist David Locke of Tufts University.
To find out more about Jeremy Cohen, ThisWorldMusic or African drumming in the classroom, visit: www.ThisWorldMusic.com