Drummers Institute was founded in Düsseldorf in 1988 as a hands on drum school . The director and founder of the school Jan Rohlfing had the goal to build a highly inspirational environment for musicians – especially drummers – and establish a professional teaching system based on the American method.
Since 1989 Drummers Institute has been working in coorporation with the New York Drummers Collective. Being the first European affiliated drum school, Drummers Institute offers information as well as exchange and preparation programs and seminars with staff members of Drummers Collective.
Meanwhile there are over twenty top notch musicians teaching at Drummers Institute. Through a strong faculty, high quality teaching programs and workshops by guest musicians such as Peter Erskine, Billy Cobham, Terry Bozzio, Simon Phillips, Cindy Blackman, John Riley, Jeff Hamilton and Adam Nussbaum, Drummers Institute guarantees a high level of education for the professional as well as the leisure musicians.
