BIO

Justinious is a dedicated performer and teacher of contemporary music. He has earned degrees in percussion performance from CSU Sacramento, California Institute of the Arts, and UC San Diego. He recently became the newest member in the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet (LAPQ) in 2011. Lionheart was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2001 to travel to Chennai, India to study South Indian percussion for nine months with T.H. Subash Chandran. He has also studied North Indian tabla with Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael and the California Institute of the Arts. Justinius performs concerts throughout the United States, Canada, and Asia, and has participated as a musician and producer on Sono Luminus, Innova, Albany, Mode, New World, MCA, Skunk, Anicca, Cornerstone, R.A.S., and Sub Pop record labels.