Jon Laine

Jon is a native of Falls Church, Virginia. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from George Mason University in Virginia and a Master of Music degree from Howard University in Washington DC. He taught himself how to play drums listening to his mother’s collection of vinyl and watching metal and rap videos on MTV while emulating the drummers he saw. It was not until his senior year of high school that he began classical percussion lessons. Jon was heavily influenced in marching band and drum corps style drumming, but also played as the pit percussionist in plays and musicals. Some of his first major musical experiences were in the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Youth Ensemble, the Disneyland Collegiate All Star band, of which he beat drummers from several colleges around the country, and the Aspen Concert Jazz Ensemble.