Trivia

Took his first overseas tour at the age of sixteen with the American Youth Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Hal Schiff.

Taught at Berklee College of Music in Boston, the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, and the Aaron Copland School of Music in New York.

Jazz pianist, keyboardist, composer, arrange and producer.

In college he performed professionally with Slide Hampton and Red Rodney and was in a bar band whose members included Jon Herington, Shawn Pelton, Kenny Aronoff, Robert Hurst, and Chris Botti.

Worked with Steely Dan, Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Mike Stern, Dennis Chambers and Bob Berg.

Attended Indiana University, studying jazz under David Baker and classical piano under John Ogdon.

Began with piano at age seven and his classical teacher for almost twelve years was Mary Anne Rietz. As a teenager, he studied arranging with Don Sebesky, jazz piano with Roland Hanna, and studied privately with George Shearing for several years.