LORCA HART
DRUMMER, EDUCATOR

Lorca Hart’s vision is to provide deepening creative musical experiences for himself and others. His career as both a performer and a teacher has been dedicated to the craft of drumming, Jazz tradition and history, and ensemble collaboration.

Mr. Hart received his BFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1996. He was deeply inspired by teacher/mentors including Albert “Tootie” Heath, Joe La Barbera, Charlie Haden, Wadada Leo Smith, and many others. Lorca continues to be inspired by music education now as a faculty member for numerous musical education venues including Stanford Jazz Workshop, Mt. San Antonio College, SF Jazz and many other musical clinics and workshops. Additionally, Lorca teaches privately at his drum studio.

Lorca has performed in a vast array of musical situations, working with many of the West Coast’s (and beyond) finest artists including : Bobby Hutcherson, Ralph Moore, Carmen Lundy, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Jordan, Craig Handy, Bennie Maupin, Azar Lawrence, Julian Lage, Hugh Masekela, Meklit, actor/musicians Jeff Goldblum and Peter Weller, Kyle Eastwood, Red Holloway, Plas Johnson, John Heard, Danny Grissett, Justo Almario, Phil Ranelin, Dave Pike, Don Menza, the Clayton Brothers, Anthony Wilson, Calvin Keys, storyteller/radio personality Joe Frank, Ronald Muldrow, Anton Schwartz, Kenny Washington, Nicolas Bearde and the Cross Hart Jazz Experience. He also leads his own trio featuring Josh Nelson on piano and Edwin Livingston on bass.

Curriculum Vitae

LORCA HART Drummer, Educator
www.lorcahart.com

EDUCATION
California Institute of the Arts; Los Angeles, California 1992 – 1996
BFA Jazz Percussion Performance
Stanford Jazz Workshop; Palo Alto, California 1989 – 1991
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
UCLA School of Music, Global Jazz Studies; 2020 – present
Jazz Percussion Professor
California Jazz Conservatory; Drumset Faculty 2020 – present
St. Mary’s College of California, Jazz Percussion Instructor 2020 – present
Stanford Jazz Workshop; Faculty 2001, 2016-2019
San Francisco Symphony AIM Program, Faculty. 2018-2019
San Francisco Conservatory of Music; Visiting Artist 2018 – present
SF Jazz; Teaching Artist, San Francisco, California 2014 – present
Mt. San Antonio College; Adjunct Faculty 2009 – 2010
Walnut, California
Oakland Summer Jazz Workshop; Faculty 2016, 2017
California Jazz Conservatory, Jazz Percussion Instructor 2020
Healdsburg Jazz Festival Advisory Committee 2015 – present
Jazz in the Neighborhood, Emerging Artist Coordinator 2017 – 2018
San Francisco Bay Area
Healdsburg Unified School District;Jazz Program Director, 2010 – present
Jazz Ensemble Instructor, Sonoma County
Edna Brewer Middle School; Guest Artist, Drum and 2010 – present
Jazz Ensemble Coach, Oakland, California
Marin Country Day School;Drum Instructor: 2012 – present
Forte Music Program, Corte Madera, California
Cazadero Performing Arts Camp; Faculty 2018 – present
Cazadero, California
Lafayette Summer Jazz Workshop; Faculty 2018
Redwood High School Drumset/ensemble Instructor 2019 – 2020
Jazz Camp West Faculty; Oakland, California 2012 – 2018
Marin School of the Arts; Drum Instructor, Ensemble Coach 2014 – 2015
Novato, California
Plaza de la Raza Community Arts Center 1994 – 1997
Drum Instructor: Community Arts Partnership,
Los Angeles, California
Lorca Hart Drum Studio; Drum and Ensemble Instruction, 1991- present
All levels

EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE TOURS
Meklit Band teaching residency for Band On the Wall 2015
Manchester, UK
Boise Jazz Society; Lorca Hart Trio with Kenny Washington 2011
Boise, Idaho
Langston Hughes Project; 2005 – 2009
Various colleges and universities; multimedia
performance piece with Dr. Ron McCurdy; including
spoken-word poetry, photo imagery, and live jazz
PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE
As Leader:
Lorca Hart Trio with Ralph Moore 2018 – present
Lorca Hart Trio 2008 – present
CrossHartJazz Experience 2004 – present
Lorca Hart Trio Taos Jazz Festival & New Mexico tours 2015 – 2018
Lorca Hart Trio in Edmonton, Alberta Canada 2014, 2016, 2019
Performed With:
Ralph Moore 2002 – present
Nicolas Bearde 2016 – present
Rick Vandivier 2010 – present
Kenny Washington 2010 – present
Anton Schwartz Quintet 2012 – present
Tiffany Austin 2017 – present
Sarah Gazarek 2018
Tessa Souter 2017
Grace Kelly and Bob Dorough, Taos Jazz Festival 2016
Bobby Hutcherson 2015
Meklit (TED Fellow) International and U.S. Tours 2013 – 2016
Azar Lawrence Quartet 2008 – 2012
Joe Frank Live 2007, 2008
John Heard Quartet 2002 – 2011
Phil Ranelin 2005
Freddie Hubbard 2004
Jeff Goldblum Mildred Snitzer Orchestra 2000 – 2006, 2017
Bennie Maupin 2000
Vail Jazz Weekend: John Clayton, Benny Green, 2000
David “Fathead” Newman, and others
Saipan and Guam: “Earl Bethel Deep Blue Sea” tour 1999
Dave Pike Project 1997 -1998

SELECT DISCOGRAPHY
Kenny Washington, “What’s the Hurry,” NOMINATED GRAMMY 2020
BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM
Ralph Moore with the Lorca Hart Trio, “Colors of Jazz” 2020
Ashley Wilson “Paint the Sky” 2019
Nicolas Bearde “I Remember You, Music of Nat King Cole” 2019
Rick Vandivier 2016
Meklit “We Are Alive” 2014
Anton Schwartz “Flashmob” with Taylor Eigsti 2014
Lorca Hart Trio “Recollections” 2010
“Cross Hart Jazz Experience” 2005
Phil Ranelin with Pharaoh Saunders “Inspiration” 2004
Hugh Masekela “Almost Like Being In Jazz” 2004
John Heard “the Composers Songbook” 2004
Justo Almario “Love Thy Neighbor” 2003
Ronald Muldrow featuring Mulgrew Miller “Freedom’s 2003
Serenade”
Dave Pike “Bophead” 1997
T ELEVISION APPEARANCES
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The West Wing
Studio 60 Live on the Sunset Strip (house band)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
PRODUCT ENDORSEMENTS
Cadeson Drums
Evans/D’Addario Drumheads and accessories
EVENTS
BBDR Pacific; Los Angeles, California
House band; Event planner for large celebrity event agency
Standard Events; San Francisco, California
Co-leader of music event planning across the Bay Area