I have made a career of creating music in a wide variety of forms and genres. My experience includes collaborations with directors, editors, and ad agencies for commercial musical purposes as well as working with individual artists and bands to create and hone their unique musical voice. This range of experience has provided me with a broad musical vocabulary to draw from. I enjoy learning what pe...
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I have made a career of creating music in a wide variety of forms and genres. My experience includes collaborations with directors, editors, and ad agencies for commercial musical purposes as well as working with individual artists and bands to create and hone their unique musical voice. This range of experience has provided me with a broad musical vocabulary to draw from. I enjoy learning what people want and need musically, and then bringing even more than they expect to both the process and the result.

After receiving my BFA in piano performance) from Western Michigan University in 1993, I moved to Nashville and began my career at Hummingbird Productions, one of the leading jingle houses on Music Row at the time. It was there I co-produced the audio and lent my voice to one of the most recognized, Clio-winning Super Bowl commercials of all time: Budweiser “Frogs.” I wrote and produced national, regional, and local spots during my years at Hummingbird and it was there that I learned how to deliver great sounding audio on very tight deadlines.

I moved to Los Angeles in 1997 to pursue songwriting and production. There, I began working with artists and bands crafting songs, producing tracks, and mixing my own work, as well as songs for other producers. I wrote songs for Sony ATV Music Publishing, including co-writing with Billy Porter, Gary Barlow (Take That), Paul Stanley (KISS), 2Gether (an MTV boy band spoof series), and many others. With artist Angela Via, I co-wrote and produced a song that landed in Pokemon: The Movie and on the multi-platinum selling soundtrack album. It was also during this time I had my first taste of film scoring, working closely with Keith Forsey (Billy Idol’s long-time record producer) to create the score for Wisegirls, a film starring Mira Sorvino and Mariah Carey.

As the record industry underwent significant changes during the Napster era, my wife and I chose to move our young family to Northern California. While maintaining my relationships in LA, I was able to work with independent artists and bands, as well as grow my skills and experience scoring, working for Universal Pictures on trailers and promos, as well as regularly placing cues in TV shows.

Recently, I’ve written the score for Lifetime’s movie The Serial Killer Seduced Me and a film for tubi.com called Hustlers Take All. Other work includes the Netflix series The Day I Met El Chapo, and several other series where I provided the bulk of the music, including the Main Title theme: Hunted (CBS), S.T.R.O.N.G. (NBC), Ultimate Beastmaster, Awake, Cooked with Cannabis (Netflix). I also had the opportunity to score award winning documentaries such as Hand Rolled: A Film About Cigars, and Sun, Soil & Water.

My wife and I live in Granite Bay, CA, nestled between Folsom and Roseville, about 30 minutes from downtown Sacramento, and 90 minutes from Lake Tahoe. Living somewhere beautiful, outside the “rat race,” certainly helps my creative flow. I work in my well sound-proofed custom recording studio called “The Stickhouse,” which is an ideal place for creating and mixing music. My studio is built around the Avid Carbon system, running Pro Tools Ultimate and Logic Pro, depending on the functionality I need for each project. I have a substantial library of Virtual Instruments and samples which cover any genre, from orchestral to hip-hop. Plus I’ve got a 1948 Steinway M, a drum kit, and various guitars all ready to record.
I have been married to June (a fantastic painter) for over 30 years now.
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