Brian Ganch

Drums / Percussion

“Who is this?”

Andy Einhorn

Music Supervisor and Conductor, Gypsy on Broadway

About

As of October 2023, I’ve been on the road with the first national tour of the Broadway hit musical Peter Pan. My musical journey began at age 10 in Pittsburgh, PA, when my grandparents gifted me a toy drum set. After moving to Charlotte NC, I had the privilege of studying with world-renowned percussionist Rick Dior of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, whose mentorship was pivotal in my acceptance into the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where I earned a degree in Percussion Performance.

At CCM, I continued my percussion studies under the guidance of Allen Otte, Jim Culley, and Rusty Burge from the Percussion Group Cincinnati, performing in many of the Conservatory’s musical theater productions. I studied Tabla with Jim Feist and recently had the unique opportunity to study Mridangam in India.

In addition to live performance, I love synthesizer programming and working with digital audio workstations like Ableton Live, MAX/MSP, and Logic, which allows me to explore sound design and electronic music production.

My career highlights include serving as the drummer/percussionist for the national tours of The Sound of Music and Bandstand, touring with the Nashville-based rock band Lovedrug, and recording drums for a Billboard-charting album. One of my most memorable musical experiences was performing with Blue Coupe, alongside Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Dennis Dunaway and Joe Bouchard, founder of Blue Öyster Cult. I played keyboards for that performance, but they needed more cowbell, and luckily, I had brought mine!