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Are you looking for workshops at drummer’s focus, small talk & shake hands, drum clinics & master classes or backstage meetings & sparkling events? Here you’ll find some of the lively highlights of the last few years:

A 
Robby Ameen / Charly Antolini / Ray Ayotte

B 
Bruce Becker / Louie Bellson / Gregg Bissonette / Manni von Bohr / Terry Bozzio

C 
Terry-Lyne Carrington / Gary Chaffee / Jim Chapin / Martin Cohen / Wayne Cohen / Vinnie Colaiuta / René Creemers / Curt Cress / José Cortijo

D 
François Delécluse / Pieter Douma / Rick Drumm

E 
Tommy Eberhardt

F 
Dieter Falk / Dom Famularo / John Ferreira / Vic Firth

G 
Steve Gadd / David Garibaldi / Mel Gaynor / Günther Gebauer / Nicky Gebhardt / Andy Gillmann / John Good / Danny Gottlieb / Trilok Gurtu / Ralf Gustke

H 
Wolfgang Haffner / Pitti Hecht / Joey Heredia / Matthias Holtmann / Alex Holzwarth / Steve Houghton

I 
Frank Itt

J 
Bashiri Johnson

L 
Abe Laboriel, sj. / Abe Laboriel, jr. / Shawn Lane / Ricky Lawson / Thomas Lang / Tony Liotta / Troy Luccketta

M 
Mike Mangini / Ed Mann / Lesley Mandoki / Phil Maturano / Jojo Mayer / Jonathan Moffet / Jonathan Mover / Airto Moreira / Joe Morello

N 
Jost Nickel

O 
Uwe Ochsenknecht / Natascha Ochsenknecht / Abi Ofarim / Gil & Tal Ofarim

P 
Carl Palmer / Karl Perazzo / Simon Phillips / Jeff Porcaro / Mike Portnoy / Bernard Purdie / Flora Purim / Portinho

R 
Herman Rarebell / Arnold Riedhammer / Raul Rekow / Walfredo Reyes Jr.

S 
Santana-Band / Elmar Schmidt / Wolfgang Schmidt / Werner Schmitt / Hilko Schomerus / Mark Schulman / Chuck Silverman / Thomas Simmerl / Martin Stöck

T 
Mike Terrana / Efrain Toro


Tony Verderosa

W 
Freddie Washington / Peter Weihe / Alan White / Pete Wrba

Y 
Yes (gesamte Band) / Pete York

Ricky Lawson and Cloy Petersen backstage before the start of the Whitney Houston concert, 9-29-1991, in the Olympiahalle München
Vinnie Colaiuta and Cloy Petersen visiting the Trader Vic’s on the 1-29-1997, Munich with Sting and band after the Sting concert
Andy Witte in April 2004 with the legendary Jim Chapin (center) and Dom Famularo (right) in Frankfurt
Carl Palmer and Cloy Petersen, autumn 1996, backstage visiting the Tollwood tent in Munich after the ELP concert
Beach Boys’ drummer Mike Kowalski visits Cloy Petersen at df.M in July 2003
From left to right: df.S teacher Stephan Kappler and Jochen Spahr with Pink tour drummer Mark Schulman and Cloy Petersen, 12-8-2006, backstage at the ‘Stuttgarter Schleyerhalle’ just before the Pink concert
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