Bio

I first began my musical career when my grandparents shipped an old piano to my family when I was 8 years old. I studied both trumpet and piano throughout middle and high school and taught myself bass on my father's old acoustic guitar at 17. I got an electric bass soon after, fell in love with it, and left for Case Western Reserve University.

At Case, I studied trumpet; double bass; jazz performance, arranging, and composition; audio recording; and electronic composition and synthesis. I performed in 2 symphonic wind ensembles, the school jazz band, a brass quintet, several pit orchestras, and an experimental jam/rock/hip hop band. As a recording and mastering engineer, I recorded over 100 recording sessions and performances at the schools. I also interned at Wellspring Sound, where I assisted on sessions with clients like Dave Mattacks, J. Geils, and Gordon Goodwin.

After graduation, I returned to Boston, where I began performing and recording on both trumpet and bass with a wide variety of bands, returning to Cleveland a few times to engineer and produce 2 albums for the Paul Ferguson Jazz Orchestra and 1 album with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. In 2010, I went on a brief tour of Europe as the audio engineer and music director for the Tesla Orchestra, a performing group featuring the world's largest musical Tesla Coils.

In 2012, I moved to Raleigh, NC, to begin touring full time with The Design, fronted by The Voice Season 5 Top 10 finalist, Kat Robichaud. After 10 months of touring and performances all across the American Southeast, The Design disbanded, and I returned to freelance work. Since then, I have played hundreds of performances with many ensembles covering a vast range of musical styles including classical, jazz, rock, pop, metal, musical theatre, world music, and everything in between. Between performances with my bands, Echonest, and The Pseudo Cowboys, I am a regular musician in pit orchestras at local and regional theatres in and around the Triangle and teach piano, bass, and guitar lessons at Family Piano Academy in North Raleigh.

I began to compose original music in 2017, releasing my first solo EP, Daylight. I have written over a dozen complete video game soundtracks, and collaborated on many more, featuring electronic composition, orchestral and chamber ensembles, chiptunes, rock music, and more experimental compositional styles.