Originally from the Toronto suburbs, Tony started laying down grooves to Chuck Berry and The Beatles when he was five years old.  By eight he began playing with an original band and working club dates. His major influences were blues and jazz, but his scope went much farther.  He finished high school at seventeen, and attended Berklee College of Music in Boston , on scholarship, where he graduated cum laude after 2 years.

  He then moved to New York to complete his Masters Degree in Jazz Performance at The Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Justin DiCioccio and John Riley.  With New York City as his new home, he rediscovered his childhood backbeat roots and met his mentor, Steve Jordan.

  Inspired by Jim Keltner, Al Jackson, Keith Richards, and Ry Cooder, Tony has a loose approach; he is fluid in many different styles ranging from Latin/Funk to R&B and Rock. This up-and-coming drummer has performed with top artists such as Tom Jones, Moby and Chris Barron of The Spin Doctors, and has played great venues and festivals in such places as North Korea , Switzerland , France , Caribbean , and in the United States .  Presently Tony works as an in house drummer, composer and instrumentalist for Limebeat Music and Sound in NYC.