I have loved to improvise and create music since I was very young. It is very satisfying to pass this on to others who are full of music inside but may not know how to get it out. If you wish you or your child could get some help creating your own music as well as playing the great music already written, perhaps we should be talking.

I am from Canada, and I have been a professional musician since 1970. I studied music performance in school, piano with the Royal Conservatory of Toronto and Music Education at Queens University. I have toured with national acts, produced dozens of recordings of all kinds and played, arranged and conducted music on cruise ships all over the world.

Music is my life. Bringing other people's skills to a higher level is what I do best. I teach people of all ages first to play by ear and to have fun while they study. Then I back up ear training with solid fundamentals so they can read and write their own music. For many years I have studied diverse traditional methods and I have distilled my own distinct method from them. Though I am classically trained, I specialize in improvisation and writing.

Education

Music Education Sep 1970 - Dec 1971 | Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario

Taught High School Music String Program | Sep 1969 - Jun 1970 Nepean High School, Ottawa, Ontario

Music Performance | Oct 1960 - Jun 1970 | Royal Conservatory of Toronto

Subjects

Confidence! and also… Accompaniment, Arrangement and Composition, Audio Engineering, Audition Prep, Composition, Ear Training, Film Scoring, Jazz Voice, Logic Pro Software, Music Performance, Music Production, Music Recording, Music Theory, Piano, Singing, Songwriting, Speaking Voice, Spoken Word, Vocal Training.