Producer.
2021 – Released two feature length documentaries on major streaming platforms (Coalesce, Escape 360)
2020 – Published 50 part ‘Poetry in Motion’ series with 50 original songs, poems, and unique video.
I love to teach. It’s when I learn the most. Not just about the particular subject in question, but about an individual or group in general as it relates to myself. Teaching can be the same as learning itself when applied correctly and with an open mind. The role, to me, is extremely encompassing and covers everything from mentorship to therapist to life coach to friend and everything in between.
As a music teacher, I’ve had the fabulous fortune of developing lifelong relationships with students. Its a unique position that carries through time unlike….
Teacher.
Writer.
I saw a girl in a little vendor stand at a festival just the other day holding a handmade paper journal with the most curious eyes. I asked her if she planned to fill the pages with her mind and she told me she didn’t, as writing to her most often consisted of recalling her negative experiences and she didn’t wish to bring those to the surface so often. This is the case with any writer in my opinion, but it doesn’t have to end there of course.
Putting pen to paper is an act of revelation that creates the opportunity to say something you weren’t expecting to say when you picked up the pen. It’s a process that is frustrating and cathartic simultaneously…a release of demons and an affirmation of eternity. Sometimes it’s just something that needs to be done in order to get to the next page on the next day as an exercise in stability and consistency. Writing is accessible. Writing is FREE. Writing is REAL. I’ve said many times, if you want to get things done in this World, write it down, say it out loud, and then it will begin to become so. As I write this, I know it to be true. With 15,000 pages of handwritten journal entries behind me filled with thoughts and memories I could never otherwise recall, I can only wish the next 15,000 to be more of the same.
Photographer.
Performer.
I have performed well over 1,000 cover songs written in the past 100 years, 100 classical compositions, and 200 completed original pieces in their entirety during my time in public settings in front of the piano thus far. As a self taught musician, I have developed a deeply personal relationship with the piano by spending thousands of hours with them…hundreds of them. During a period of time when I spent 7 out of 10 years living on the road while in my 20’s I would gravitate to pianos like a moth to a flame. It became a 6th sense of mine to find them and make a qusi-home around them. I’ve slept on pianos, under pianos, head on keys drooling, next to, nearby, behind, with others…you name it. I’ve been arrested on more than one occasion within one foot of a few different pianos and also crashed more weddings than I can count at any and every hotel or country club I knew of or could come across with a piano…no guest list necessary…I just spontaneously become the entertainment and go from there.
I’m not your typical player. I’m not a duelling piano player. I’m not looking to improv and solo every chance I get. What I specialize in ranges from…
Host.
