Joseph Camilleri grew up in a musical family (his grandfather Frank ‘Bibi’ Camilleri was a well known Maltese jazz pianist, whilst his father Joe was the princical percussionist for the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra) Joseph began learning classical piano at a young age, eventually shifting to percussion under his father’s tuition. He attended private lessons and masterclasses by several distinguished drummers including Ron Savage, Tony Arco, Bobby Sanabria, Rod Youngs, Asaf Sirkis, Efrain Toro and Ze Eduardo Nazario, and holds a BMus (Hons) degree from The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in London.

Joseph is currently a percussion teacher at the Malta School of Music, and has hosted workshops for aspiring drummers at the X4M Perform School in Torino, Italy. He performs frequently both locally and abroad, with notable performances including the Beyond Boundaries folk festival (Bulgaria), the International Jazz Day in Bergamo in 2016, and the Sunset-Sunside jazz club (Paris, France) in collaboration with the Malta Jazz Festival and the EDIM school. He has performed at three editions of the Malta Jazz Festival – in 2014 with pianist Joe Debono and bassist Yoni Zelnik, in 2016 with the Jazz Fringe Youth Orchestra, and in 2017 with renowned pianist Burak Bedikyan. In May of 2016 Joseph recorded at Studios de la Seine in Paris, on Maltese saxophonist Carlo Muscat’s album entitled, ‘Explorations’.

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