About Lorne Nehring

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Juno and Jazz Report Award winning drummer, Lorne Nehring is originally from Montreal where he began playing piano, saxophone and drums. Lorne studied percussion and began his jazz studies at McGill University. He has studied with noted Toronto drum teacher and author, Jim Blackley as well as with American jazz great Keith Copeland in New York City.

He is an accredited teacher who for many years was the director of, and instructor at the much-respected Drum School at Long & McQuade on Bloor St. in Toronto. After fifteen years Lorne has recently retired from his teaching position as a drum set instructor and professor at Humber College, Toronto. Lorne recently completed a master’s degree in music at York University focusing his research on the importance of improvisation in jazz education.

Lorne continues to play and record with Canada’s finest musicians and groups including Tom Reynolds, Bob DeAngelis, John MacLeod, George Koller, Paul Novotny, Roberto Occhipinti, Jackie Richardson, Henry Heillig, Mike Downs, Alexander Brown, Terry Cade, to name but a few.