Skilled songwriter/composer/orchestrator with over 20 years of experience writing, arranging, and recording musical pieces. Expertise in music for film and video games, with skills in sound and video editing software and experience handling a wide variety of applications to compose, synthesize, and revise music. Released over a dozen studio albums of original music. Wrote the music, book, and lyrics for two full-length musical plays. 12 years experience as a Montessori educator. Published a book on Montessori music. Mentored by Michael Zeiger, Dr. Norman Ludwin, Mark Kuypers, Andy Hill, Jeremy Leidecker, Ryan Leach, Christopher Siu, Rovshan Asgazarde, Alain Mayrand, Darrell Grant, Brian Ward.

2003 - Orchestrator - “Los Angeles, I’m Yours” from the album Her Majesty by the Decemberists

Worked with the band to develop an arrangement for string ensemble. Recruited players. Formatted and printed score and parts. Conducted recording session at Jackpot Studios, in Portland, OR with Larry Crane producing.

2005 - 2022 - Orchestrator - Parks & Recreation

Wrote orchestral arrangements for the band’s three studio albums, produced by Jarkko Heiniö. Recruited players, supervised sessions, formatted and printed score and parts, conducted recording sessions at various locations.

2022 - Composer, Songwriter, Orchestrator - The Ideal Home Music Library, Vol. 3: Songs for Orchestra

Wrote, recorded, and mixed 12 songs for orchestra for the third album in the band Reclinerland’s Ideal Home Music Library series, produced by Jarkko Heiniö.

Piano, guitar., vocals; Music reading, editing, writing; MacOS, Windows; Logic Pro X, Pro Tools, FMOD; Dorico, Finale; DaVinci Resolve, iMovie; BBCSO Pro, CSS, 8-DIO, Spitfire Audio Plugins; KONTAKT Libraries; Vienna Ensemble Pro; Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign; Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer.

2008

MFA in Music Ed.

Portland State University

2023

MFA equivalent in Film Scoring

European Academy of Fine Arts - Film Scoring Academy of Europe - Online

Mentors: Dr. Norman Ludwin, Mark Kuypers, Andy Hill, Jeremy Leidecker

2023

Certificate of Completion

Virtual Composer’s Summit

Mentors: Ryan Leach, Christopher Siu

2022

Certificate of Completion

The Secrets of Orchestration Online Course

Mentor: Rovshan Asgazarde

2020 -

Membership

Score Club

Mentor: Alain Mayrand

1989, 1990

Diploma in Visual Art, Theater

California State Summer School for the Arts