Percussionist GABRIEL GLOBUS-HOENICH blends a multitude of musical influences together in his work as a performer, composer, and educator. A Montreal native, Gabriel is now based in New York City, where his career reflects a deep love for the worlds of jazz, classical, and world music. Gabriel has performed and recorded on drumset and percussion with a wide variety of artists, including Yo-Yo Ma, Jack Harlow, Morgan James, Jim James, Chris Thile, Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Yuja Wang, Omara Portuondo, Telmary Díaz, Roberto Fonseca, Tirso Duarte, Steve Hackman, the Philly Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony, Detroit Symphony, and Louisville Orchestra, among others. He performed on the 2024 Grammy-winning album The American Project by Yuja Wang and Teddy Abrams and toured with Chris Thile and the Louisville Orchestra performing Thile’s concerto ATTENTION.
In 2017, Gabriel founded People of Earth, a 13-piece Cuban Timba band filled with some of NYC’s best musicians representing a myriad of countries. People of Earth has performed at venues such as Disney Hall, Carnegie Hall, New World Center for the Arts, Mann Center, and Kennedy Center. For more information, visit www.peopleofearthmusic.com.
An active composer and arranger, Gabriel has written orchestral arrangements for Grammy winners Sam Bush, Cory Henry, and Sara Jarosz, as well as Achilles Liarmakopolous of the Canadian Brass, Grammy-nominated Tiempo Libre, and the Louisville Orchestra. Gabriel received a 2023 BRIO Award from the Bronx Council for the Arts for his work in composition.
In addition to his work in the orchestral and jazz music worlds, Gabriel has completed extensive world percussion studies, having studied Afro-Brazilian percussion in Salvador, Bahia, with Gabi Guedes and Mario Pam, as well as Cuban percussion with Giraldo Piloto, Rociel Riveron, and Adonis Panter Calderon. Gabriel continues to work as a teaching artist for the 92nd Street Y and Marquis Studios and was formerly a teaching artist with Play On Philly! and musician-in-residence at The Please Touch Museum. He is a 2008 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Don Liuzzi and Robert van Sice.