Hello!
I am composer/arranger/songwriter/producer, guitarist, and educator currently based in Fort Collins, CO. The son of immigrants and a descendant of holocaust survivors, I am so grateful to be able to make music my career.
These days, I'm doing lots of orchestrating and arranging, including for Ellie Goulding and the LA Phil/San Fransisco Symphony/Wordless Music Orchestra, the OK Factor and the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony, and the Pueblo Ensemble and the CU-Boulder Chamber Orchestra. I've also written and produced music for podcasts, love-sick singer-songwriters, saxophone quartets, and a lot of bands, including having served as producer (and co-writer, string/horn arranger, guitarist, and editor) for Minneapolis soul/R&B singer Jaedyn James' debut album, Loving You So Hard. In 2020, I premiered “Ya No Tengo Miedo Por Primera Vez,” a song-cycle recounting the life of my great-grandparents through my own Midwestern, Mexican-Jewish eyes as a part of the Cedar Cultural Sessions "Cedar Commissions."
I've appeared on over a dozen releases of original music on electric and acoustic guitar, including "bloom," the full-length all-original debut from chamber-folk group Sprig of That, produced by Wes Corbett (Sam Bush, Joy Kill Sorrow), and recorded by Dave Sinko (Punch Brothers, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer…and so many more). At home in front of an audience, I've toured the East Coast, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest, sharing the stage with artists ranging from eighth blackbird and Guster to Here Come the Mummies, Charlie Parr, and Chris Eldridge/Kristin Andreissen. I've also spent hundreds of hours sweating all over stages across the country as the power ranger in Porky's Groove Machine. In college, I played all kinds of challenging and experimental music as a member of Slipstream, a group formed to play Hout, by Louis Andriessen (check this wild piece of music out).
A lifelong lover of all things public radio and podcasts (I subscribed to my first podcast at age 11 in 2005!), I also work in podcasting, having scored Rose Eveleth's Vanguard Estates (nominated for a 2023 Third Coast award!); contributed music to episodes of Flash Forward; scored, edited, and mixed the first two seasons of Historias De Arte En Podcast; and produced and edited eight threads: unraveled.
Passionate about helping others grows in their musicianship and careers, you can find me during the week at the Music District in Fort Collins, CO, where I'm the associate manager of artist development, helping to strengthen an already wonderfully vibrant music scene in Northern Colorado. As an educator, I've taught Music Technology and composition at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and given dozens of educational workshops across the country with partner organizations like Carnegie Hall, Minnesota Public Radio, and the Mile of Music Music Education Team (in addition to countless private lessons). I'm also proud to work as assistant (or as he calls me, "paid guy") to Minneapolis’ super-producer/record label CEO Lazerbeak (Lizzo, Doja Cat, Doomtree),
I've been lucky enough to learn from/be mentored by a lot of amazing people (Andy, Annika, and Gabriel, Jillian Johnson at Lawrence University, the aforementioned Mr. Lazerbeak to name a few), and hold a masters degree in music composition from CU-Boulder and a bachelors in composition/guitar from Lawrence University.
I am composer/arranger/songwriter/producer, guitarist, and educator currently based in Fort Collins, CO. The son of immigrants and a descendant of holocaust survivors, I am so grateful to be able to make music my career.
These days, I'm doing lots of orchestrating and arranging, including for Ellie Goulding and the LA Phil/San Fransisco Symphony/Wordless Music Orchestra, the OK Factor and the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony, and the Pueblo Ensemble and the CU-Boulder Chamber Orchestra. I've also written and produced music for podcasts, love-sick singer-songwriters, saxophone quartets, and a lot of bands, including having served as producer (and co-writer, string/horn arranger, guitarist, and editor) for Minneapolis soul/R&B singer Jaedyn James' debut album, Loving You So Hard. In 2020, I premiered “Ya No Tengo Miedo Por Primera Vez,” a song-cycle recounting the life of my great-grandparents through my own Midwestern, Mexican-Jewish eyes as a part of the Cedar Cultural Sessions "Cedar Commissions."
I've appeared on over a dozen releases of original music on electric and acoustic guitar, including "bloom," the full-length all-original debut from chamber-folk group Sprig of That, produced by Wes Corbett (Sam Bush, Joy Kill Sorrow), and recorded by Dave Sinko (Punch Brothers, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer…and so many more). At home in front of an audience, I've toured the East Coast, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest, sharing the stage with artists ranging from eighth blackbird and Guster to Here Come the Mummies, Charlie Parr, and Chris Eldridge/Kristin Andreissen. I've also spent hundreds of hours sweating all over stages across the country as the power ranger in Porky's Groove Machine. In college, I played all kinds of challenging and experimental music as a member of Slipstream, a group formed to play Hout, by Louis Andriessen (check this wild piece of music out).
A lifelong lover of all things public radio and podcasts (I subscribed to my first podcast at age 11 in 2005!), I also work in podcasting, having scored Rose Eveleth's Vanguard Estates (nominated for a 2023 Third Coast award!); contributed music to episodes of Flash Forward; scored, edited, and mixed the first two seasons of Historias De Arte En Podcast; and produced and edited eight threads: unraveled.
Passionate about helping others grows in their musicianship and careers, you can find me during the week at the Music District in Fort Collins, CO, where I'm the associate manager of artist development, helping to strengthen an already wonderfully vibrant music scene in Northern Colorado. As an educator, I've taught Music Technology and composition at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and given dozens of educational workshops across the country with partner organizations like Carnegie Hall, Minnesota Public Radio, and the Mile of Music Music Education Team (in addition to countless private lessons). I'm also proud to work as assistant (or as he calls me, "paid guy") to Minneapolis’ super-producer/record label CEO Lazerbeak (Lizzo, Doja Cat, Doomtree),
I've been lucky enough to learn from/be mentored by a lot of amazing people (Andy, Annika, and Gabriel, Jillian Johnson at Lawrence University, the aforementioned Mr. Lazerbeak to name a few), and hold a masters degree in music composition from CU-Boulder and a bachelors in composition/guitar from Lawrence University.