All styles, levels, and backgrounds!

One unique thing about me is that I've have experience in MANY different musical situations ranging from performance and education to arranging, band leading, touring, recording, and writing. I began as a punk rocker as so many people my age did. Learning the songs of the bands I listened to. As I got older and more proficient at my instrument, I began playing for the high school jazz bands and choirs in the area I grew up, beautiful Bremerton WA. When I was 16 I began my formal training at Olympic College where I played bass in several of the school ensembles as well as studied Theory, ear training, and history courses. At 18 I graduated with an AAS degree, took a year off to tour with a vocal jazz group called Jazz line, then applied to Cornish College of the Arts the following year. At Cornish I was exposed to many different world music styles and cultures as well as many different local Seattle musicians. From the time I got to Cornish in 2004 until now, I have been performing in Seattle at least once a week with different groups and usually 3-6 nights a week. It was also at Cornish that I began playing the guitar and piano (for the purpose of teaching them) which gives me a pretty cool perspective on these instruments. Given that I learned them with the intention of teaching them. I grew up in a musical household, my mother is a professional music teacher and we swap notes all the time. Since graduating from Cornish in 2006, I have toured the US,Canada, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas with different groups.... mostly Jazz, a little rock, and some gospel. I am an adjunct Jazz theory instructor at Cornish College of the Arts, on faculty as a teacher at the National Guitar Workshop, Have given workshops and clinics at CAL ARTS, University of Alaska, University of Nevada, and many high schools and middle schools all over the country, taught on average 30-50 students per week in and around the Seattle area. In a nutshell..... music is my life, I love it, and I love sharing it's beauty with others.