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LA Music Academy Appoints Mike Packer As Director of Educational Operations

LA Music Academy Appoints Mike Packer As Director of Educational Operations

LA Music Academy announced that author, drummer and percussionist Mike Packer, who also teaches Applied Sight Reading and private lessons for the school's drummers, was appointed Director of Educational Operations, effective immediately. A University of Northern Colorado graduate, Packer, who upon moving to Los Angeles studied under industry veterans Ralph Humphrey, Jeff Hamilton and Freddie Gruber alumnus Carl Tassi, joined the school in 1996 and has since played extensively throughout the Los Angeles area. Most recently, Packer designed DW Drums' new "heel-less" bass drum pedal (model 5000ADH), which allows the player unprecedented access to the sweet spot of the pedal while promoting total relaxation and comfort in the resting position.

"It's really an honor to be teaching at the Academy and I look forward to expanding and advancing the school's curriculum across all departments," says Packer. He adds, "We will continue recruiting top quality students from around the globe, but the competition to get into the Academy is fiercer than ever, not to mention scholarship applications are at an all time high."

Packers' resume is extensive with performance credits include clinics and concerts with the jazz classical quartet Free Flight, Steve Allen, Carl Anderson, Nils Lofgren, Lorna Luft, Regis Philbin, Susan Lucci and Ben Vereen. Television credits include Grounded for Life (WB), Mad TV (Fox), The Peoples Choice Awards (CBS), the CableAce Awards (TNT) and an Easter Seal Telethon. He has written for Modern Drummer and Drum! Magazine and released an instructional book, Feet Don't Fail Me Now, and a DVD, Bass Drum and Hi Hat Technique

For more information please visit www.lamusicacademy.edu

About LA Music Academy
LA Music Academy in Pasadena, a suburb of Los Angeles, CA, offers an intimate and friendly, yet serious and rigorous contemporary music education to male and female students 18 and over through its vocal, drum, bass and guitar programs. Founded in 1996, the Academy is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music and has provided a solid musical foundation for more than 1,000 international and domestic students. LA Music Academy's 35 instructors immerse students in practical courses. The Academy offers a significant number of real world playing situations with professional musicians, not just peers, setting the school apart from other prestigious music institutions. LA Music Academy gives its students the skills necessary to apply their learning in a wide variety of professional situations in the music industry.