Marc Wagnon is an innovator on the electronic vibraphone and has studied a wide array of ethnic styles of percussions, he is a world renowned performer, and an experienced teacher, on drums, mallets, midi sequecing and percussions, in particular he has developped a method to teach percussions to kids in an class setting.

Teaches at the Lighthouse Music School and privately in New York City
has recorded many CD on its own or has a producer, music director and sideman: here is a discography:

with Tunnels:
Tunnels with Percy Jones Buckyball Records 1999
Painted Rock Buckyball Records 1999
Progressivity Buckyball Records 2002
Live The Art of Living Dangerously Buckyball Records 2004

Solo Projects:
Marc Wagnon An Afterthought (Buckyball Rec.) 1999
Marc Wagnon Shadowlines LP (Sun Jump) 1988 re-released CD (Buckyball Rec.) 1999

With Brand X:
Manifest Destiny CD (Pony Canyon) 1997

with Sarah Pillow:
Nuove Musiche (Buckyball Rec.)2000
Paper Cuts CD (Buckyball Rec.) 1997

Mike Clark & Paul Jackson
Clark-Jackson-Wagnon
Conjunction (Buckyball Rec.) 2001

With Doctor Nerve:
Out to Bomb Fresh Kings,LP (Cuneiform) 1984
Armed Observation LP (Cuneiform) 1987
Did Sprinting Die CD (Cuneiform) 1988
Beta 14 Ok CD (Cuneiform) 1990
Skin CD (Cuneiform) 1995

As a teacher, my shedule is from 10am to 6pm
my fee is $50 for a 50min lesson

Marc Wagnon was born in Switzerland where he started studying music at an early age on the piano. His first taste of being a percussionist was by playing the drum in marching band. At the age of fifteen he got his first drum set and formed his own band for which he composed music and lyrics much influenced by the British progressive rock scene of the 70's (King Crimson, Soft Machine, Led Zeppelin) and others.

He went on to study classical percussion at the Geneva Conservatory where he studied for five years; during those years he participated in many local bands, theater and dance projects as a percussionist. He became attracted to the vibraphone as well as increasingly drawn to jazz and jazz-rock, inspired by artists such as Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return To Forever, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Marc went on to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston for a year, where he furthered his mallet technique and composition technique. He also met some great like-minded musicians in Dave Douglas and Dave Kikowski and decided to go down to New York City to have a taste of the real thing. In New York Marc took private conga lessons with the late Frankie Malabe and joined a Brazilian percussion group where he became familiarized with Latin American rhythms. He has continuously been studying ethnic rhythms from West Africa to South America.

Marc co-founded the band Dr. Nerve with guitarist Nick Didkowski, which went on to record 7 albums. He then went his own way to start his band Shadowlines, which was stylistically closer to his musical vision and released two CDs: "Shadowlines" and "An Afterthought". Marc's style developed in both composition and free improvisation in working with numerous musicians in the downtown New York scene.

In the early 90's Marc founded the group Tunnels with world-renowned bassist Percy Jones, releasing three critically acclaimed CDs from 1994 to 2002, and this year a live recording. Tunnels has performed all over the world and is just back from a successful tour in Japan. Marc is also featured on "Manifest Destiny", a CD with the legendary English band Brand X .

Marc has been a teacher for the past fifteen years, most notably with visually impaired musicians at the Lighthouse Music School. He teaches drums, percussion, sequencing and theory, both privately and with group classes to the visually impaired. Marc also has visited the EJMA jazz school in Lausanne, Switzerland five times as a guest artist, working with a student jazz ensemble for a weeklong clinic, teaching and performing his compositions with free improvisation.
Marc is also involved with the group Nuove Musiche with singer Sarah Pillow, which put together two ambitious CDs mixing jazz, R&B and early baroque music with guitarist John Goodsall. They have toured the east coast and mid-west of the U.S.

Marc’s latest solo release with drummer Mike Clark and bass player Paul Jackson is called "Conjunction". It was released in 2001, and features four original compositions from Marc.
Marc and Sarah Pillow created Buckyball Music, a music service company and record label designed to bring musicians together on a variety of levels in performing, teaching, exchanging ideas and sound creation, as well as exploring the connection between music and science.