Los Angeles based drummer and composer Malachi Whitson strives to create sounds and rhythms that inspire, uplift, and promote peace to world communities. A recent graduate of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA, he regularly performs at premiere venues around Los Angeles and has been heard on international stages around the world including those in Montreal, Australia, China, and the United Nations in New York City. Malachi is an accomplished educator and composer who has collaborated on commissions and master classes with organizations such as SFJAZZ, Monterey Jazz Festival, and Stanford Jazz Workshop. Aside from these achievements, he is also a recipient of various Downbeat student awards. As a Bay Area Native, Malachi was a member of various jazz all-star ensembles including The East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, SFJAZZ All-Stars, California Jazz Conservatory All-Stars, Brubeck Colony, and New Generation Jazz Orchestra, all of which hold prestigious alumni such as Ambrose Akinmusire, Benny Green, Thomas Pridgen, Justin Brown, and Joshua Redman. Malachi credits his success to the education he received in these educational spaces as well as through his community at large within the Bay Area. 

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Malachi has performed and worked with artist Herbie Hancock, Joshua Redman, Bobby Mcferrin, Helen Sung, Theo Crocker, Dayna Stephens, Taylor Eigsti, David Binney, Dianne Reeves, and Gretchen Parlato.

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