Born in 1962 to immigrant parents, in Wellington, New Zealand. Aside from acquiring the usual early life skills necessary for navigating the new world, he was also drawn to music; singing at the piano with his farther, in the choir at primary school and sometimes playing the piano. Then at age 9 he began an intensive study of tap dancing, performing extensively until his mid-teens when this interest grew into a greater fascination with drums and percussion. At this age he also began to take an interest in motorcycles and various eastern influenced writers and thinkers, reading and absorbing many literary writings as well as canonical texts such as the Tao Te Ching, I-Ching and Chuang-tzu.   A short spell of academic study in Philosophy, English Literature, Sociology and Art History gave way to the need for travel and Ware left University to journey through Asia, the Middle East and Turkey. Drum set study continued in London for a couple of years until a return to New Zealand to complete a Bachelors Degree in Jazz and Classical Performance at the Wellington Conservatory of Music. Whilst gigging extensively in Wellingtons music scene - from percussionist with the Regional Orchestra to jazz, funk, rock, R&B, studio and film work (including commissions from Radio New Zealand to record jazz and chamber works for broadcast) - he also began the study of Tai Chi Chuan and Chi Gung. In 1990 Ware moved to New York and became involved with the downtown scene, working with players as diverse as Jerome Harris, Ben Monder, Marc Ribot, Pete McCann, William Parker, Mark Helias, Dominic Duval, Ikue Mori, David Watson, Chris Kelsey, Joe McPhee, Kitty Brazelton, Joe Fiedler, Tony Malaby, Briggan Kraus, Anthony Coleman and Matthew Shipp among many others. ... >>