The Ultimate
Team-Building Experience
Druminar™ is a new twist on the concept of team-building.
Motivate Your Team with Drums
Regardless of the size, age, or composition of your group, Drum Circles channel the power of music and percussion to bring people from large corporations, small businesses, or students of any age together as a team.
Benefits:
- Brings team members together to achieve a common goal
- Emphasizes the importance of each team member’s contribution
- Promotes cooperation among co-workers
- Demonstrates the value of effective communication and listening skills
- Illustrates the importance of diversity
- Encourages individual creativity within a group setting
- Breaks down hierarchical barriers
- Improves critical team management/leadership skills
- Develops camaraderie among co-workers
- Relieves stress
- Fun!
Learn How to Conduct an Orchestra
Our Maestro will demonstrate the significance and importance of clarity, expressiveness, preparation, and confidence needed to be a successful leader and manager. The symphony conductor is used as a metaphor for your CEO.
Conductors and CEOs both need to be persuasive and passionate to execute their vision and inspire their work force. Druminar leadership development sessions are amazing at demonstrating how your team can be resilient, innovative and flourish in any environment by utilizing the compelling leadership qualities of a symphony orchestra conductor.
Team-Building
Musical and percussive concepts, along with interactive exercises, help participants identify and replicate experiences of highly engaged teams in the workplace.
Leadership Development
Our Maestro will demonstrate the significance and importance of clarity, expressiveness, preparation, and confidence needed to be a successful leader and manager. The symphony conductor is used as a metaphor for your CEO.
Certified Facilitators
Our certified facilitators are experts in training and organizational development to help engagement, motivation, and communication for your team.
Maintaining employee morale and engagement is a top priority for companies.
“Key findings from Society Human Resource Management’s research:
When considering the future of their workplace for the rest of this year, HR professionals reported that organizations are prioritizing efforts to focus on improving the talent challenges from the past year. This includes addressing employee morale, as well as retaining and recruiting talent.”- from SHRM Presents State of the Workplace Study 2022
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Reported that maintaining employee morale and engagement is a top priority.
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Intend to improve the soft skills (e.g., empathy, compassion, communication) of their people managers.
Some of Our Clients
How it works
Using guided rhythmic activities and discussion, participants take team-building to the next level. Everyone on your team is given a special drum or percussion instrument to play. Our certified facilitators employ an interactive, hands-on approach to help participants gain personal insights and group connections, leading to personal and organizational growth. In addition, our Conductor will teach your team the skills needed to be a conductor and a successful leader.
No prior musical experience is required to participate!
Team Building Exercises
This program is designed to teach both managers and employees the value of highly functioning teams, resulting in increased levels of employee/team engagement and business performance.
Leadership Development
The symphony orchestra conductor is used as a metaphor for your CEO. Our Maestro will focus on developing leadership skills for the corporate environment. Your team will see examples of full conductor scores and learn the basics of various beat patterns used by conductors. They will also experience the significance of clarity, expressiveness, preparation, and confidence needed to be a successful leader and manager.
Conferences
Druminar™ is perfect for conferences. Whether it’s for kick-offs or closings, retreats, conventions, or seminars, you will create connections between participants that will last well beyond your event.
Pricing
For quotes on our drumming programs, please contact us. We can deliver this unique experience at your venue or arrange a suitable venue for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Drum Circle?
The drum circle is led by a facilitator who guides the group through various rhythms and rhythm-based activities. A drum circle is highly interactive and does not require any prior musical knowledge by the participants. Because each group is different, each rhythm-based musical experience is unique.
What are the benefits of Drum Circles?
- Brings team members together to achieve a common goal
- Emphasizes the importance of each team member’s contribution
- Promotes cooperation among co-workers
- Demonstrates the value of effective communication and listening skills
- Illustrates the importance of diversity
- Encourages individual creativity within a group setting
- Breaks down hierarchical barriers
- Improves critical team management/leadership skills
- Develops camaraderie among co-workers
- Relieves stress
- Is energizing and fun!
- Is accessible to all!
Do I need to be a drummer to participate?
How many participants can you accommodate?
Where are your programs held?
I’m ready to book an event. What comes next?
We will deliver this unique experience to your venue or can arrange a suitable venue for you. We provide all the drums needed for your program or event.
Remember–no musical experience is required! Let us provide a powerful drumming experience that will have a lasting effect on your team!
What They’re Saying About Druminar
Certified Instructors
Jamie Shrock, MBA, SHRM-SCP
Co-Founder
Jamie Shrock is the co-founder of Druminar and is an accomplished professional with more than 20 years of human resources, leadership, and organizational development experience in multiple industries, including Banking and Health Care.
Shrock has a strong track record of assuming positions of increased accountability and career expertise in designing, creating, and leading innovative programs and systems to enhance corporate culture, improve employee performance, and support organizational change. She is a passionate, resourceful, Inclusive, people-oriented leader who develops teams of human resources professionals and senior leaders.
Shrock is currently the senior director of human resources for Kaleida Health, the largest healthcare provider in Western New York.
Little known fact about Jamie: As a former professional musician, she has held both management, contracted positions and appeared as a soloist with multiple symphony orchestras throughout the United States. She has performed in some of the most prestigious halls, such as The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
Mark Hodges, MBA, M.M.
Co-Founder
Mark Hodges is currently the Principal Percussionist of the Grammy award-winning Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and a percussion faculty member at The Eastman School of Music. He has recorded extensively with many symphonic ensembles, performing in over 50 recordings with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra. In addition to touring internationally, Hodges has been an active soloist for many orchestras, including the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Prior to his appointment with Buffalo, he held many Principal Percussionist positions throughout the United States.
In addition to his orchestral appointments, Hodges is an active music educator. He currently is a member of the percussion faculty at the Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester, the State University of New York, Buffalo State College, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Percussion at the Greatbatch School of Music at Houghton University. He also is a highly sought-after clinician, adjudicator, and lecturer of percussion throughout the United States. Highlights include The Percussive Arts Society State and International Conventions.
Hodges holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music/Case Western Reserve University, Capella University, and the University of Cincinnati/College-Conservatory of Music.
Little known fact about Mark: Mark has performed many concerts with some of the top rock and pop artists, including The Moody Blues, Sarah McLachlan, The B-52s, Johnny Mathis, Stewart Copeland (The Police), Lou Gramm (Foreigner), Burt Bacharach, Olivia Newton-John, The Temptations, and The Four Tops.
Maestro Paul Ferington
Facilitator
Druminar Facilitator Paul Ferington is hailed as a "distinguished Guest Conductor" by the Buffalo News. Ferington conducted the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra for over 25 years as a member of the executive conducting staff. During this tenure, he conducted the orchestra in over 400 concerts in the U.S. and Canada. In addition to his conducting, Maestro Ferington is Professor Emeritus from the Niagara campus of State University of New York (SUNY) and was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2005. During his 32 years as an academic educator and administrator, Maestro Ferington served in major roles such as Division Chair of Fine Arts and as Vice-President for Academic and Student Affairs. He has supervised over 400 full and part-time faculty.
Little known fact about the Maestro: Ferington has conducted the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and chorus every July 3rd to an audience of over 16,000 people for over 18 years.
Music Director
JoAnn Falletta
Music Director
Grammy Award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, music director laureate of the Virginia Symphony, principal guest conductor of the Brevard Music Center, and artistic adviser of the Hawaii Symphony. She was recently named as one of the 50 great conductors of all time by Gramophone magazine. As music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Ms. Falletta became the first woman to lead a major American ensemble.
In Summer 2022, Ms. Falletta made her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut at the Tanglewood Music Center. International highlights for 2022–23 include concerts in Spain, Sweden, Germany, and Croatia. Her recent and upcoming North American guest conducting includes the National Symphony and the orchestras of Baltimore, Detroit, Nashville, Indianapolis, Houston, Toronto, and Milwaukee. Internationally, she has conducted many of the most prominent orchestras in Europe, Asia, and South America. In the past year, she has led the National Symphony in two PBS televised specials for New Year’s Eve and the 50th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center.
With a discography of over 120 titles, Ms. Falletta is a leading recording artist for Naxos. She has won two individual Grammy Awards, including the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance as Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic in the world premiere Naxos recording, Richard Danielpour’s “The Passion of Yeshua.” In 2019, she won her first individual Grammy Award as Conductor of the London Symphony in the Best Classical Compendium category for Spiritualist, her fifth world premiere recording of the music of Kenneth Fuchs. Her Naxos recording of John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan with the BPO received two Grammy Awards in 2008, and her 2020 Naxos recording with the BPO of orchestral music of Florent Schmitt received the prestigious Diapason d’Or Award.
Ms. Falletta is a member of the esteemed American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has served by Presidential appointment as a Member of the National Council on the Arts during the Bush and Obama administrations. In 2019, she was named Performance Today’s first Classical Woman of The Year
In the News
Bankers get management training through conducting
The League of American Orchestras- summary of Buffalo News Article on Druminar
BPO promotes music education to school leaders
National Public Radio WBFO Broadcast Buffalo/Toronto
Drumming up teamwork
Buffalo Business First News
