I have always enjoyed exploring on my own. My earliest memory is of being alone in a dune area near the ocean, with its sparse grasses and translucent pastel shells, in the late afternoon light of summer, crickets and gulls singing the season.

Looking back, it makes perfect sense that I went on to find myself often in the woods, along the rivers, on the beaches, out in the pasturelands, atop mountains, and afloat on the lakes of New England, where I have lived for most of my life. These have been among the most special moments of my life.

It is also not surprising to me to see that same spirit of adventure at play from my youngest days on when faced with a piano. I liked finding out what the instrument would do in response to my simple untutored experiments, what sounds would fill the air because I pressed here and there on the keys.

I took a few years of piano lessons by and by, both classical and jazz, and a few rudimentary composition lessons, but I am largely a self-taught composer.  But growing up near New York City, I got a live first-hand education from jazz greats like Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and countless others.  I currently work most often as a jazz pianist in Vermont, as I have for many many years.  But I also write music for English Country Dance, pop music collaborations, and inevitably some piano music of some kind.

Flutist, Vocalist, Composer and Child of God.

I have been playing or singing off and on for most of my life. My earliest musical memories are of being passed from lap to lap in the choir loft of the church I grew up in during rehearsal. I believe that is where my love of singing started and it helped me to learn harmony at a very early age. My other early influences were Dave Brubeck, a lot of classical composers, the Mills Brothers, Harry Belafonte, early Joan Baez, of course the Beatles, Stones and listening to my father's old Jazz records.


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