Price M.

Drums/Piano/Saxophone

Price is an NYC-based instrumentalist hailing from Louisville, KY, where he was gifted the freedom from a very early age to explore sounds and music. Graduating from pots and pans to his first drum set at the age of four, he joined local ensembles at the age of 7 and began performing and learning a variety of instruments from the drum set to world percussion instruments to marimba, vibraphone, and xylophone as well as piano and saxophone.

Currently, Price works as an arranger, composer, performer, recording engineer, and recording artist. His work as a percussionist and pianist in the world of dance includes features composing for and performing with the Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Marymount Manhattan College, and MOMEN. You can also catch him touring the show “Is It Thursday Yet?” – a piece commissioned for the inaugural season of the Perelman Arts Center and workshopped/produced at La Jolla Playhouse – which also features in a documentary titled, “Room To Move” that screened at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival.

During his years at the Youth Performing Arts School and then the University of Louisville, Price worked and performed and studied with an array of musical masters, chaired bands and orchestras from the district to national level, earned awards as a percussionist, drummer, pianist, and saxophonist at national band festivals and performed nationwide in a variety of settings. His students have also gone on to audition and win chairs at the district and state levels, some of whom are now working as contemporaries in the music industry from Nashville to L.A. to New York.

As a teacher, Price believes in nurturing the musical spark and works with each student to cultivate their enjoyment and understanding of music. He strives to allow the same freedom of musical exploration afforded to him in his formative years for his own students and understands how to set musical goals for the short, medium, and long term, and creates lesson arcs that allow the students to achieve their goals while broadening their musical horizons and technical abilities, all in service of why we are here: for the music.