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 putting people in a trance and or sleeping state and maintaining it to playing songs people are not used to hearing arranged for piano in environments they least expect. 

I often compare playing piano to speaking a universal language, as I’ve discovered in foreign countries and around foreigners in general. It is a bond that ties. Moments that unify. I love to wake sleeping pianos from their long slumber and make no excuses for their condition or state…an otherwise out of tune piano beneath confident hands is like a junkyard Mustang to a master mechanic. How many times I’ve heard ‘No one has touched this piano in as long as I can remember’.

I can best describe my experiences thus far with pianos as the familiar feeling of walking through the woods, anywhere, alone…without the particular knowledge of identifying every tree or leaf that comes across, but nonetheless integrating with the air, and time, and peace of the moment…looking up often to the pillars of growth beset before me in wonder and amazement, yearning to know more about the inception of their design yet content with the simple nature of their existence as it is in the moment.