BIO
Wayne Tympanick
Wayne began his music career as a full-time student at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, where he studied
drum set with Alan Dawson. During that time he did
extensive touring with the popular singing group The Platters and was fortunate to play with the great Czechoslovakian pianist and composer Yan Hammer, who went on to write sound scores for many shows including Miami Vice.
Following graduation from Berklee Wayne performed locally in the Boston area and also toured with Full Circle for the USO. Wayne decided to dedicate himself to a career in Music Education, working as a high school band director in Texas. He also played with a number of noted bands, including the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Guy Lombardo Orchestra, and many Texas jazz and western groups.
In the late eighties Wayne returned to his East Coast roots, settling in first the Baltimore and later the Washington, DC area, where he performed, taught and took graduate music classes at George Mason University. He performed there with the George Hipp Orchestra, Joe Ayala Trio, Seth Kibel’s Dixieland All-Stars, and the Bay Jazz Project as well as many other groups. He has also performed live for Maryland Public Radio. His jazz groups have performed at many venues, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the summer concert series on the Vienna Town Green in Vienna, Va. and several performances on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center. He and his wife are now residing on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.