From Sacramento, California, Justin DeHart is a dedicated performer and teacher of new music. He is current member of the contemporary percussion group “red fish blue fish” in beautiful La Jolla, CA. DeHart has performed concerts throughout the United States, Canada, and Asia and has participated as a percussionist as well as producer on various record labels such as Innova, Mode Records, New World Records, MCA, Skunk, Anicca, Cornerstone, R.A.S., Jumpstart, and Beatville. In addition to being an active performer in contemporary music, he has also explored North and South Indian percussion extensively. He has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 2001 to study South Indian percussion for nine months in India with T.H. Subash Chandran, and has studied tabla with Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael and at the California Institute of the Arts.