I was fortunate to have parents that surrounded me with music and technology at a young age. I started classical piano lessons at age five. A few years later, I got serious about guitar and bass, playing in club bands as a teen. I was so fortunate to play in one of the best high school jazz bands in my region, (thanks to a very intense band director!) but it was the introduction to music theory and composition that allowed me to find my musical purpose. For the first time, I learned to speak the language. It was at this time that I got into computing. Several of my friends had Apple Its or Commodore 64s. I soon commandeered a friend’s Apple II, and discovered my second passion. I started out as a Jazz Major during my freshman year of college at The University of North Texas, (studying with the great Dan Haerle), but after a chance encounter with a music theory professor, named Dr. Kevin Korsyn, I changed my major to a double major in Music Theory and Composition. I was nominated “Junior Student of the Year” by the music college, and was planning to go to the university of Surrey as a Foreign Exchange student, when after five years at UNT the technology bug bit hard. I was offered a position at Apple Computer, left school and never looked back. The convergence of music and technology truly began here as I spent a many years building a home studio, and more.

At the NAMM Show in January 2020, I introduced The Modular Template at the MOTU booth. The Modular Template incorporates many features and techniques I’ve learned over the last few years of template building for some of the industries top composers.

NAMM 2020