Stephan Zender has been with the Modern Music School since 1990. After his pedagogy studies, he went to Los Angeles to study drums at the Los Angeles Music Academy. Here, he had lessons with legendary coaches like Joe Porcaro, Ralph Humphrey, Mark Schulman (Pink, Foreigner, Billy Idol etc.) and others. After his return from California, Stephan started teaching at MMS, and today he runs four own locations. He played in various bands, recorded albums and toured through Europe and America mainly with his Band Mytallica.