Combining over three decades of experience as a musician with a love of the cultural essence of drums and drumming, Michael Pluznick has established himself as an artist in the world of hand drums and percussion. Helping to define the world through its drums, Michael has studied, taught and played drums and percussion instruments extensively throughout Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, West Africa, and the United States. It is his passion and love for his art that makes him an incredible force in drumming and music.



From an early age, Michael Pluznick was drawn to the drums and the rhythms that define African and Latin American cultures. This passion continued throughout his childhood, and well beyond, propelling him into a world of drumming mentors, teachers and peers that not only taught him how to drum, but, perhaps more importantly, that drumming is more than beating out a rhythm. It is a spiritual experience that can define a person, a time or a place. Drummers don’t just keep a steady beat; drummers, in a sense, define time.



As a student and teacher, Michael Pluznick has successfully combined the cultural facets of drumming with a Western perspective to create an art form and experience full of traditional, folk and modern drumming insight. His experiences as a drummer, teacher and student have all been touched by the joy of music and its rhythmic ties. Michael Pluznick defines the dedication to music, continually evolving as an artist and touching the lives of people around the world.



Michael Pluznick has been recording with a variety of musicians with great pleasure and success for over 25 years. He has collaborated with Todd Rundgren, Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart (both of The Grateful Dead), Clarence Clemmons (Bruce Springsteen), Raul Rico (Santana) and Jim Chappell, among others.