GREG FUNDIS
Greg Fundis is a professional drummer based in Chicago IL with a career in live 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 Grammy-nominated band Primus’ worldwide drumming competition. Fundis is a founding member of 56 Hope Road, an award-winning acoustic funk band 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 as well as touring throughout the US and abroad. Fundis appears as the drummer on hundreds of recordings and has performed on stage internationally with notable artists in a multitude of genres including 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, Freekbass, Comedian Rich Little, Louis Bellson, Joe Lovano, Tom Harrell, Bob Brookmeyer, Robert Irving III, Tony Monaco & Ray White. Fundis has a Masters Degree in Jazz Studies from DePaul University and a Bachelors in Commercial Music from Millikin University. While at Millikin, at the age of 19, Fundis’ book of original compositions "Contemporary Audition Solos for Percussion" was published by one of the world’s largest music education publishing companies 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 throughout the Chicagoland area. Greg Fundis is a signed endorsee of Vic Firth Drum Sticks and Humes & Berg cases.
