Gary Kerkezou is a New York City-based drummer and violin player. Born in a family of professional musicians, she moved to Boston from Greece for her undergraduate studies at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where she was accepted with the Berklee European Tour Scholarship, the Kostas Kouvidis Foundation Scholarship, and the BIN Augmentation Award. There, she soon started performing and recording in the greater New England area on a daily basis on both her instruments, and two years later she joined the Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra on the 1st violins. 

While in Berklee, Gary won the Berklee Achievement Grant, the “Most Improved Drummer” Award, the Terri Lyne Carrington Scholarship, and the Zildjian Scholarship. She was featured in WBGO Radio’s Jazz Appreciation Month on April 2018, and the same year she got accepted into Berklee Global Institute of Jazz’s graduate program with a full scholarship but instead chose to move to New York City and pursue her masters degree at Manhattan School of Music (MSM) as a student of Kendrick Scott.

Having graduated from MSM on May 2020 after receiving a DownBeat Student Award in March, she now continues to perform, record and teach based in New York. She has appeared at the Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s Club, United Palace Theater, Jordan Hall, Kresge Auditorium, the BPC, Regatta Bar, the Bar Next Door, Side Door, Shapeshifter Lab, Wally’s, and has given masterclasses at Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, KC Area Youth Jazz, and Mount Saint Charles Academy. She has worked with Lalah Hathaway, Javon Jackson, Chris Brubeck, Bill Pierce, Christian McBride, Cyrus Chestnut, Jacob Collier, Lage Lund, Patrick Doyle and Vladimir Fedoseyev.