I am a musician and educator from Maui, Hawaiʻi. I have been playing guitar for about 25 years, and I enjoy playing a number of styles including jazz, blues, classical, Hawaiian, rock, pop and reggae. Some of my musical influences include Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, George Benson, and Beethoven to name a few.
I earned a Bachelor of Education in General/Choral Music from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and a Master of Arts in Music with an emphasis in Jazz Composition from Washington State University. Before attending UH Mānoa I traveled to Switzerland and took classes at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, a music conservatory for Pop/Rock and Jazz. |
Live Music
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I perform as a soloist and with others regularly. This video is taken from one of my performances at Queen Kaʻahumanu Center. Please see the Events Calendar to find out where you can watch me play next.
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Live Stream Series
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During COVID started a Live Stream Series and performed on my Facebook page weekly. The live streams are archived and available to view on YouTube.
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Original Compositions
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Here is Return...Resolve: Suite for Jazz Band.
In this piece, I apply twentieth-century set-class concepts in composing a suite for jazz big band, Resolve…Return. In my composition I use themes based on pitch-class sets, subsets and complements of pitch-class set themes, and tone rows built using elements from these themes. With these concepts I find new organizing principles of harmony, ways of generating material, and methods of creating coherence within a piece of music that is outside the common practice in jazz and integrate it with traditional elements of jazz. |
As an entry to the 2019 NPR Tiny Desk Contest, I performed the title track from my album, Sacred Wilderness.
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Education
Alongside my love for music is my passion to teach and share my knowledge with others. I have taught music to all age groups from elementary music all the way up to college. In addition to teaching in the classroom, I offer private music instructions for all ages and skill levels. Contact me to schedule music lessons.
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