Alan Mark Lightner generates excitement through his energetic, charismatic, and highly skilled approach to playing music. His unique style, vast knowledge and kind-hearted spirit have wooed audiences around the world. During his studies in the music program at the University of California at Berkeley, Lightner also pursued private instruction from masters in his fields of interest. Those fields were Afro-Caribbean music, including the art of steel pans and the vast world of Afro-Cuban rhythms and instruments, Afro-Brazilian percussion, West African music, European classical percussion and the Afro-American art form of Jazz.
