Doug Auwarter is a much sought-after drumset artist doing performances, clinics, and private teaching. Besides performing with virtually every major jazz artist in the Kansas City area, he has played numerous shows and concerts with such people as George Burns, the Smothers Brothers, Joan Rivers, the Drifters, Ben E. King, Martha and the Vandellas, Little Anthony, the Shirelles, Paquito d'Rivera and many others.

In Kansas City, he performs weekly with the Sons of Brasil as well as local jazz notables including Joe Cartwright and Angela Hagenbach. His work may be heard on recent recordings by The Sons of Brasil, Musa Nova, Joe Cartwright, Angela Hagenbach, and Karrin Allyson, among others.

Doug is currently an adjunct-faculty member at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, Johnson County Community College, Missouri Western State College and Northwest Missouri State University. He has given numerous clinics on the music and drumming of Brazil, the Caribbean, as well as contemporary American styles to people of all ages, including primary and secondary schools, colleges, and professional master classes. He has taught professionally for over 30 years, and has had a studio at Explorers Percussion for the past 12 years. He is a Paiste Cymbal artist.

www.dougauwarter.com