Profile

Nothing can best describe Kenny Hogan than SE-Asia's leading drum clinician with more than 300 drum clinics and masterclasses conducted around the region. Over the years Kenny has pushed his way up to be a major drumming influence in promoting and representing Singapore to various international countries.

Kenny has been performing professionally for 22 years in the regional music industry as a freelance sesionist for countless of bands ranging from rock, fusion, pop, jazz, ethnic, oldies and beyond! As an independent drumming artiste, he has also performed for numerous local celebrities in major entertainment venues locally, regionally as well as internationally! Kenny has performed in numerous major international music festivals and have collaborated with international artistes and groups from US, France, Brazil, Republic of Czech, Italy, Norway, China, Australia, UK, Sub-Continent and of course SE-Asia.

Kenny is one of the most publicised drummers in Singapore having appeared on almost every major newspaper, countless of magazines, live appearances on National Television and Radio including performances for many very highly distinguished guests and government delegates. His many appearances and busy travelling schedules have made Kenny one of the most renowned drumming figures in the SE-Asian region for his continuous effort in bringing awareness and exposure to the 'Art of Drumming'!

Kenny has been the first ever drummer in Singapore to conduct drum clinics in United States, United Kingdom, Middle East and India & Europe. It was an uphill struggle for Kenny as drum clinicians from SE-Asia were not known to be actively engaged in drum clinics apart from western drummers. Besides Kenny's band performances and clinic invitations, he has also been invited to a number of SE-Asia's top and prestigious music colleges such as International College of Music (Malaysia) which is an alumni of Berklee College USA, National University of Singapore (NUS), Academy Seni Kebangsaan (one of the top music colleges in Malaysia), National Institute of Education (Singapore) and Institute Music Indonesia (IMI) currently the No.1 music institute in Jakarta.

In early 2009, Kenny was accepted as a member of the Professional Drum Teachers Guild of America www.professionaldrumteachersguild.com alongside great world Class drummers across the globe including Dom Famularo, Mark Mondesir, Kenwood Dennard, Gulli Briem, Akira Jimbo,just to name a few. Kenny is also a member of Hudson's (Teacher Integral Program) & Vic Firth (Private Drum Teacher) in the United States. Kenny started playing professionally at a rather late age of 24. During the early 90's, he acquired performing experiences and exposure playing Pop, Jazz, Rock, Fusion and a myriad of genres of musical situations that he has been called for. With his fiery passion, dedication, ambition, enthusiastic and humorous nature, these positive attributes have led Kenny to advance and go a step further by reaching for one of his goals to conduct a series of band and clinic tours.

You may wish to email Kenny directly for Skype drum lessons or just to say Hello @ kennyumi@yahoo.com.sg