I believe in sound and music as a construction of the deepest human longing for connection. There is a very particular feeling you get when an audience has gathered together and we have the privilege of going on a musical journey together.

Connecting human emotions to musical expression is like the creative journey of life. My goal is to leave performers and audiences energized on their life journey.

My earliest memory of music is my mother at the baby grand piano in the front room singing her vocal exercises. I would play a single note moving up the piano from the start of each scale. The pieces she sang and the hymns in church formed my early understanding of music. This instrument, a truly beautiful Bechstein baby grand, became the basis of my feeling for sonority.

I have a strong feeling of connection to the “music of the spheres”. This could be the really small spheres of quantum sub-atomic physics or the sound that the universe makes – we now know it has a background noise that sounded from the very beginning of the universe. Perhaps the universe started by someone just hitting a large quantum bell! My goal is to open the door for performers and audiences to the possibilities of sound.

When I was age seven, my mother put me in piano lessons. I rebelled and only came back to it at age eleven encouraged by a school teacher, Mr. Andrew Walters. It was his organ playing and singing in the school choir that first gave me an appreciation for the beauty and expressivity of choral music. To this day I find the organ to be the grandest and most exciting keyboard instrument. When combined together choir, organ and orchestra are sublime.

Our ability to pay attention to musical sounds is a wonderful gift of earth bound creatures in a gaseous medium. Many natural sounds have elements of musicality. Listen to everything from the ringing of your ears to the mechanical sounds that surround us to the natural sounds – all in three dimensions like infinite pinpricks of light. My goal is to encouraging perceptive listening in performers and audiences.

During my junior high and high school years, I was fortunate to have a close friend, David White, who is a gifted musician. I would visit David’s home after school and we listened to a wide variety of classical music. While the specifics of what we listened to are lost to my memory, the ethos of musical appreciation and exploration continue to inform my approach to music today.

For me, the experience of music is mystical and mythical. It exists in a reality that is partially of audio waves in the range we can experience, the intentionality of structure where this meets a simultaneity of now and the sense of heartbeat that connects us to the essence of all living things and the earth itself. My goal is to connect performers and audiences to the spiritual experience of organized sound.