Marcus Santos  //  one of the best Brazilian percussionists - Brazilian Times

As an educator, Marcus has led numerous workshops in Afro-Brazilian percussion at MIT, Harvard University, Brown University, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan) and Berklee College of Music. He currently works as a teacher at Somerville Public High School and he is the Artistic Director of five drumming groups in the states of Massachusetts, Ohio, Philadelphia, Colorado and Arizona in the USA. In Boston, Marcus is the co-founder and Artistic Director of AfroBrazil, an organization whose mission is to promote and teach Afro-Brazilian music and culture in the United States. He has also released “A Modern Approach to Pandeiro”; an instructional DVD on pandeiro playing that is now internationally distributed with subtitles in six languages.