I am a San Francisco Bay Area native.
I began playing piano at the age of seven and have attended the Indiana University School of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and San Francisco State University where I completed my Bachelors Degree in music.
I am a classically trained jazz pianist with over twenty-five years of professional experience performing at clubs, festivals, restaurants, colleges, private parties, churches and weddings. I have been performing at clubs and for private functions throughout the Bay Area for the last 25 years. At these venues I primarily play jazz standards, either in a cocktail piano environment or as a stage performer. Some of the S.F. Bay area venues where I have performed are: Yoshi's, Cafe Du Nord, The Freight and Salvage, Enrico's, The Lone Palm, The Coconut Grove, Restaurant 11, and Servino’s.
I have also played for numerous events at the Corinthian, St. Francis, Tiburon, South Beach, and San Francisco Yacht Clubs, the Frank Sinatra Room at the Cal Neva Resort and Casino as well as at the Valhalla Resort in Lake Tahoe for their jazz festival.
In addition, I have worked as a staff accompanist at San Francisco City College for eight years where my duties included playing for voice classes as well as accompanying choirs. The repertoire for these classes included opera, show tunes, jazz standards, and pop tunes.
Last, my passion is to preserve, promote and further the appreciation of jazz expression so that new generations will not only be exposed to this musical form but also be motivated to keep alive, to cultivate and become engaged and innovative with this great indigenous form of American music.