Abby Savell has been playing music since the age of five, when her grandma bought her an upright piano, on which she took lessons for ten years. At fourteen, she began playing percussion and took to it immediately. She attended Mission Viejo High School, legendary for its exemplary music program, especially in percussion; she was extremely active in drumline, and as a principal mallet player and section leader led the group to dozens of state and regional victories. During this time, she also took jazz lessons with Paul Carman (of Frank Zappa fame).Abby received her Bachelor's of Music in Percussion from Chapman University in 2002; soon after, she joined the steel drum band Big Bamboo, playing tenor pan and performing at numerous events. Abby is one of the only female steel drum/vocalists in the Los Angeles area.

Abby completed her Master's degree in Percussion at California Institute of the Arts, studying Western percussion with David Johnson and John Bergamo, Latin Percussion with Aaron Serfaty, and improvisation with harpist Susan Allen. In May 2004, she performed the World Premiere of the highly virtuosic Sonata for Xylophone and Piano by acclaimed composer Bruce Levine. She also played percussion with bass-legend Charlie Haden, in his "Liberation Orchestra II", as well as performing with xylophone virtuoso Bob Becker on the East Coast and in Los Angeles. She has performed with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra multiple times (including under renowned composer/conductor John Williams) and with award-winning Elvis Schoenberg's "Orchestre Surreal." Currently, Abby plays with the Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra, with whom she has performed at the Jazz Bakery, and onstage for the Spotlight Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Abby loves playing steel pan professionally, having performed at countless private and public functions with a band and as a soloist. She has also worked and performed with steel drum virtuoso Ken Philmore, and visited Trinidad (the birthplace of steel drums). Abby also specializes in mallet percussion, with which she plays many genres of music on the solo and group level. In June 2009, she participated in the “Broadway Percussion Seminar” at NYU, where she studied with many veteran percussionists of the Broadway musical scene. On steel pan, she appeared on the show "Outer Spaces" on HGTV. As an artist, Abby puts much weight on musical growth, continuing to take lessons with musicians she admires and maintaining a practice regimen.