When I was child, music was everywhere in my life.  At home, the family HiFi was always on and my parents would alternate between classical and jazz radio atations to their vinyl collection whaich ran the spectrum from Broadway musicals to the Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald and Sinatra.  At school, starting around age seven, there were piano lessons, then clarinet.  When I got to college, I learned guitar.  Throughout that journey, I absorbed everything, every genre, and I tried to play as much of it as I could. I learned Springsteen songs and Paul Simon songs and Beatles songs.  I sang and played piano into a cassette recorder and then later a Tascam 4-track.  I learned to harmonize my vocals, I harmonized with others.  I started playing at coffee shops.  

In the 1990s, I moved back to New York City after years living in New England and found a Lower East Side music scene bursting with brilliant songwriters like Elliott Smith, Norah Jones, Matthew Sweet and Jeff Buckley.  I couldn't get enough.  I wanted to write like them.  I went home to my little Brooklyn apartment and wrote endlessly.  While I could never come close to their genius, I started to improve and in 2001, I recorded my first album of original songs, "Renting Happiness".  I was now addicted to the process of writing and recoring my songs.  While my days were spent as a middle school teacher, my nights were all about writing and eventually playing those songs on some of the very Lower East Side stages I'd scene my heroes perform.  Over the next 25 years, six more albums and close to 100 songs were written.    

My songs blend multiple musical genres with introspective lyrics.  From a childhood steeped in The Beatles, melody, hooks and harmoies always lead the way.  My most recent album, "The Haze of Winter Flowers" (2024) features what I think are my strongest songs yet and I'm excited to be following that up with new music I am currently working on and releasing.  I play live as much as my teaching life will allow, both in NYC and around the Northeast.  I've been fortunate enough to play at some amazing venues over the years including Daryl's House, The Bitter End, Rockwood Music Hall, Dream Away Lodge and The Burren and to have my songs played on WFUV, NPR and WDST-Radio Woodstock.  I've been a featured performer at WFUV's "On Your Radar" show and the Cape May Singer-Songwriter Festival.  I love music, and making it has been the most rewarding part of my life.  I hope to never stop.