I am a keyboardist and composer with blues and rock roots, but you’ll notice, perhaps, a bit of jazz and contemporary classical experimentation in my compositions, that I have improvised. I grew up playing acoustic piano, but now use a trusty old MIDI beast (my beloved Roland A80) and Logic to compose most of music you’ll hear here.
I’ve been passionate about music since I can remember. I love all kinds of music, and listen to a wide assortment of musicians. My background includes classical piano training from the age of five to my mid-teens, and two years of music composition at the University of Calgary.
As an adult, I’ve taken voice lessons from a wonderful jazz vocalist, musician, and teacher, Karin Plato, and violin from Kathleen Nisbet, who is also a great teacher and musician. I started tenor sax with Dave Say, a really excellent jazz sax musician and teacher, but Covid interrupted that. I’m back at it, taking both sax and clarinet lessons from Dave, and violin from a wonderful teacher, Mathew Davidson, at the Shadbolt Centre in Burnaby.