About Me

I grew up in a small-(ish) American town filled with music. Some of my first memories are of fun-filled Friday evenings listening to the community band in the town square. In grade school, I started trombone and joined the chorus in middle school, but my interest in music never truly piqued until I got my first guitar. Now all the notes were right under my fingers and I turned my attention to how they all worked together. I was lucky to be part of some top-notch ensembles with ispirational teachers through high school and college. In high school, I studied instrumentation and arranging at the instruction of our marching band's resident arranger and had my first arrangements performed my senior year. Study in serious new music followed in college, but I never lost my love of popular music–even as I was discovering entirely new worlds of sound. After a few years of freelance work, I won a job as Staff Arranger for The United States Air Force Band in Washington, DC where I still work over 20 years later writing music in all styles for all ensembles and for every imaginable audience.