I’ve spent most of my life making things.
Producer. Songwriter. Photographer. Filmmaker. Engineer. Lighting designer. Different tools. Same instinct.
Music was always the beginning.
I started playing piano as a kid and quickly discovered that improvising and creating interested me more than simply playing what was already there. Years later, seeing a home recording setup for the first time changed everything. I started making tracks, recording artists, writing songs and learning how records actually came together.
What began as curiosity became a career. Production led to engineering. Engineering led into live sound and touring. Wanting to document what was happening around me led to buying a camera, which led to studying lighting, fashion and beauty photography, commercial work and eventually film.
Every time I found another creative discipline that interested me, I wanted to understand it completely. Not because I wanted more job titles, but because I wanted another tool for turning an idea into something real.
Eventually I stopped worrying about whether all of those things belonged together. They did because I did.
The details are where the feeling lives.
I’m an odd blend of artist and technician. I love the emotion of making something, but I’m equally fascinated by the tiny decisions that allow that emotion to reach someone else.
A chord voicing. A microphone choice. The falloff of a light. A camera angle. The timing of a cue. None of those things matter simply because they’re technically correct. They matter because, together, they can make something feel honest.
I don’t want to force beauty into things. I’d rather notice what’s already there and give it enough space to be seen or heard.
One thing kept leading to another.
Piano, writing & production
Music began in childhood and eventually became songwriting, record production and engineering — first in basements and home studios, then professionally with artists across genres.
Live sound
A summer opportunity at Irving Plaza and Gramercy Theatre introduced me to professional live production, engineering and stage management.
Photography
I bought a camera because I wanted to document what was happening around me. Frustration with my own images led me into studying lighting, which eventually led to a Brooklyn studio and professional fashion, beauty and commercial work.
Everything converges
Moving to Nashville gave me the chance to stop treating the different pieces of my career as separate identities. Music, photography, video and live production began feeding each other instead.
Around the world
Music, video and audio work took me across the United States, Europe and Asia — on stages, in venues and alongside artists and crews from around the world.
Light
Lighting became the newest extension of the same obsession. I threw myself into programming and design and became one of the primary Lighting Directors at Marathon Music Works.