About Me:
My teaching philosophy includes the standard answer of most music instructors... building strong technique, theory, rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic understanding, and a strong musical repertoire. My first priority is to instill a love and enjoyment of music. Lessons and music should be fun, yes hard work, but fun. I want a half hour, or an hour or 45 minutes to go by and the student to not even realize it. I think there is a musician in everyone. We all have musical ability it's just a matter of tapping into it.

Styles:
Musical Theatre

Subjects:
Harmony, Theory, Ear Training, Songwriting, Arranging, Orchestration, Jazz Music History, Music Technology, Classical Music History, Rock Music History

Ages:
Elementary School, Pre-teen, Teenage, Adult

Availability:
I will teach in all of Manhattan, but generally teach in the Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Hells Kitchen, Clinton, Chelsea, Grammercy, and The Lower East Side.

Major Influences:
My influences here range from Rodgers and Hammerstein and Rodgers and Hart, to Bernstein, Sondheim, and Flaherty and Ahrens to John Cameron Mitchell.

Experience:

• The Browning School for Boys Encore Program, After School Music Faculty, Piano [2004 - Present]
• Brainwright teaching service, Piano, Voice, and Music technology instruction [2004 - 2005]
• Electronic Music Foundation, Music Technology and Music Composition instruction [2003 - 2003]
• Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Piano Instruction [1997 - 2000]
• Piano Academy, Piano and Music Composition Instruction [1997 - 2000]
• Private Teaching of Piano, Music Technology, Music Composition, Music Theory, and Audio Engineering [1993 - Present]

Education:

• Bachelor of Music Technology w/Concentration in Composition (BM ), Duquesne University School of Music [1995]

Studied With:

• Lorenzo Malfatti (Voice) [1992 - 2000]
• David Budway (Jazz and Classical Pianist) [1993 - 1999]

Awards:

• Sound Designer for Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmakers Award Winner "Being Reel" - Coca-Cola [2004]
• Innovative Theatre Award Nomanee for Best Production of a Musical - Innovative Theatre Awards [2004]

Recent Performances:

• Music Direction of Off b-way Musical "Expatriate" [July, 2008]
• Composition/Sound Design of Play "The Coffee Trees" [October, 2007]
• Composition/Sound Design/Music Direction of Play with music "Mail Order Bride" [April, 2006]

Discography:

• Cast Recording Demo - "The Paperback Musical" [2005]
• Xavier and Me (children's story CD) - "Xavier and Me: One and Three and Three and Three" [1996]

Scholarships:

• N.E.E.D. foundation Academic Scholarship [1991 - 1995]
• Duquesne University Academic Scholarship [1991 - 1995]