Gordon Rytmeister
Performer, Recording Artist, Teacher
Ass. Dip Jazz
Gordon Rytmeister is one of Australia's most in-demand drummers with an extraordinary ability to cross every conceivable stylistic boundary. He studied at the NSW Conservatorium of Music and quickly went on to establish himself as an international performing and recording artist, touring internationally and performing with an extraordinarily diverse range of people, including the cream of Australia's Jazz, Pop, Rock and Country artists and many international acts. These include; James Morrison, Tom Jones, The Commodores, Nat Adderley, Glenn Shorrock (from Little River Band), Tina Arena, The Sydney All Star Big Band, Bobby Shew, Anthony Warlow, Eartha Kitt, Jimmy Barnes, Anthony Callea, Guy Sebastian, Kate Cebrano and many more.
He is the resident drummer on TV's highly successful Australian Idol, as well as playing five nights a week nationally on Tonight Live with Steve Vizard in the early 1990s. Gordon spends a large amount of time freelancing in various recording studios and can be heard on many movie soundtracks, albums, and television themes. He recorded Anthony Callea's 'The Prayer', the highest-ever selling single in Australia by a local artist.
Voted "Pop and Rock Drummer of the Year" by Skin Full reader’s poll in 1995, he has also featured as the cover story of Drumscene magazine, to which he is also a regular contributor. From 1996 through 2002 Gordon taught in the Jazz Course at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has conducted many educational clinics, workshops and master classes throughout the world and endorses Beyerdynamic microphones, Vic Firth drum sticks, Remo drum heads, Sabian cymbals and Yamaha drums.
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