About Me
Hello, and thank you for your interest in taking lessons with me.
As a player, I have always striven to play in a highly melodic style. I have a diverse musical background, as I started off in folk and bluegrass, and then played lots of rock as a teenager. But primarily over the last twenty years I have played and studied lots of jazz-related music, as well as classical and Indian. My main teachers as an adult were: guitarist Steve Frarey, saxophonist Andrew Speight, bassist and Director of Jazz Studies at Michigan State University Rodney Whitaker, pianist and author W.A. Mathieu, and guitarist Fareed Haque.
I also strive to combine influences that are both modern and traditional, basically working with the sounds that attract me, past and present. Over the past 18 years, I have had the pleasure of performing with the following esteemed artists: Ron Blake, Rodney Whitaker, Carl Allen, Bill Dowdy, Arno Marsh, Diego Rivera, and David Rosin, as well as the Lansing Symphony...