Hello! I'm a musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator, in Chicago for about 5 years now and loving it. Teaching has become the sort of center of my creative universe, and I'm so thankful for it. I find inspiration from my student's ideas and love finding the language together to bring their ideas into reality. I've taught groups that are big, and had private students, from 1st grade through advanced adults.
I'm an enthusiast of a wide range of styles and techniques, and...
Hello! I'm a musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator, in Chicago for about 5 years now and loving it. Teaching has become the sort of center of my creative universe, and I'm so thankful for it. I find inspiration from my student's ideas and love finding the language together to bring their ideas into reality. I've taught groups that are big, and had private students, from 1st grade through advanced adults.
I'm an enthusiast of a wide range of styles and techniques, and think that the main gift of music is that it's a social art! It gets people into a room, let's time pass, and gets them thinking and feeling together. Most recently, I was the composer is residence for a Youth Symphony orchestra, where I had the opportunity to further my own orchestral chops, while teaching the groups about new ways of making music and what a composer's practice is like. I'm glad to have music in my life and love to share it!
-BM in Composition from the Boston Conservatory
-Composer of 4 operas with studio recordings, a body of orchestral and chamber work
-Also a bandleader, drummer, clarinetist, guitarist and singer of improvised music, ragtime, jazz, and rock music.
-Teacher of general music and above instruments for 5 years with youth orchestras, public schools, and youth symphonies.
-I'm a constant student myself of music history and theory too!
Deepening one's skill set with a teacher can serve your musical intuition and ambitions unlike anything else. Your ideas are worth having and translating into music! Let's do it.
