Greg Fundis

ABOUT GREG FUNDIS... Greg Fundis is a professional drummer based in Chicago IL with a career in music performance, recording and education spanning over three decades.  Fundis’ jazz group, the Greg Fundis Quintet appeared at the 2025 Chicago Jazz Festival. Most recently, Greg Fundis placed in the top 20 out of 10,000 drummers in a worldwide drumming competition receiving an honorable mention from Grammy-nominated band Primus.  He is a founding member of 56 Hope Road who independently produced four full length albums and performed over 1500 live shows nationwide. Fundis is a frequent collaborator with Blue Note Records artist Fareed Haque playing drums on 7 of his albums. Fundis appears as the drummer on hundreds of recordings and has performed on stage internationally with George Benson, Joey DeFrancesco, Roy Hargrove, Paquito D’Rivera, Two Friends, Neal Francis, Nick Lutsko, Led Zeppelin 2, Mathien, Vikku Vinayakram, V. Selvaganesh, Salar Nader, Maurice Brown, Rich Little, Louis Bellson, Joe Lovano, Tom Harrell, Bob Brookmeyer & Ray White.  Fundis’ book “Contemporary Audition Solos for Percussion" was published by Alfred Music. In addition to relentless performing, Fundis has taught at Roosevelt and DePaul universities and currently coordinates summer drumming workshops for over 3,000 youth. Greg Fundis is a signed endorsee of Vic Firth Drum Sticks as well as Humes & Berg cases.