Doug Perry is a percussionist, improviser, and educator who performs and creates many different styles of music. As a classical musician, he has performed as a soloist with the Norwalk Symphony, Neue Eutiner Festspiele Orchestra in Eutin, Germany, and with the touring orchestral program Video Games Live. Doug was also the instrumental division winner of the 2012 Naftzger Young Artist Auditions, in which he competed as a marimbist against many other instrumentalists, vocalists, and pianists.

Doug teaches regularly, serving as an adjunct professor of percussion at Western Connecticut State University. Doug holds degrees from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Kansas, and the Yale School of Music. Doug is a founding member of the New Haven-based jazz and new music group Triplepoint Trio, and a core member of the mixed chamber ensemble Cantata Profana.