Hans Schuman

Born in Lansing, Michigan, Hans Schuman began playing drums at the age of 13 while growing up in Tucson, Arizona.

A graduate of Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music, Hans has performed with world renowned artists including Benny Green, Cyrus Chestnut, Eric Reed, Wynton Marsalis, Brad Mehldau, Larry Goldings, Antonio Hart, Christian McBride, Marcus Strickland, Stefon Harris, Mark Turner, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Seamus Blake, Geoffrey Keezer and Joshua Redman among many others.

In 1994, he founded JazzReach Performing Arts & Education Association, Inc., a New York City-based not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to cultivating wider audiences for jazz music. Since inception, Schuman has successfully positioned JazzReach as the country’s leading provider of live educational programming for young audiences. Its programs have impacted and enriched over 400,000 young people in partnership with distinguished performing arts presenters in more than 85 U.S. communities. More

All of JazzReach’s artistic programming is carried out by Metta Quintet, a highly creative unit featuring some of the most acclaimed, in-demand artists on the scene today and is as dedicated to blazing new artistic territory as it is to arts education. More