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I’m originally from Long Island, NY. I have a Master's Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in Double Bass Performance and am currently the orchestra director at Herbert Hoover Middle School in San Francisco, CA. I play an early 20th-century Czechoslovakian flat-back bass. 

In 1997, I received a Bachelor's Degree in History from Fordham University, after which I decided to pursue music full-time. I then received a Bachelor's in Double Bass Performance from Queens College in 2001, where I studied with New York Philharmonic legend Homer Mensch. After that I taught music for the Diocese of Brooklyn while performing in and around NYC until moving to San Francisco in 2004.

While working on my Master's (2004-2006) I studied double bass with Assistant Principal bassist of the San Francisco Symphony Stephen Tramontozzi and SF Opera bassist Shinji Eshima. I was Principal Bassist of the Silicon Valley Symphony from 2006-2010, as well as the Principal Bassist of the San Francisco Civic Symphony from 2010-2012, during which time I performed Bottesini's Concerto for Double Bass #2. Additionally, I’ve been Principal Bassist of the San Francisco Wind Symphony (formerly the SF Wind Ensemble) since 2013. In the summer of 2016, I completed a certification on the Fundamentals of Scoring for Film and Visual Media through Pulse College in Dublin, Ireland.

I continue to compose jazz, concert and film-music as well as perform regularly throughout the Bay Area.