When six years of age, on the hot streets of Arizona, my mother’s tapes of Enya and Yanni were instilled in my mind as my first musical influences. I began to teach myself the piano and guitar at the age of eleven. I immediately showed an interest in writing music when I scrawled out my first composition with a runny pen on homemade staff paper. At that time I was really into Rachmaninoff so my first song happened ...
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When six years of age, on the hot streets of Arizona, my mother’s tapes of Enya and Yanni were instilled in my mind as my first musical influences. I began to teach myself the piano and guitar at the age of eleven. I immediately showed an interest in writing music when I scrawled out my first composition with a runny pen on homemade staff paper. At that time I was really into Rachmaninoff so my first song happened to be in C harmonic minor (whatever that means). From time to time I would invent little ditties that were never written. When I was fifteen I began writing a series of instrumental piano solos and I also started my first four-piece band. One year later I started a new and improved band “The Quorum”, with drums, bass, guitar, keyboard, violin, and saxophone. During that time I began to develop my interest in recording, and aside from the band I began to record a series of digital instrumental music.
After a few years of playing shows and filtering through band members we recorded a self-titled twelve-song album. At the age of nineteen I went to Monterrey Mexico for two years to serve an LDS mission. Upon returning I began to compose orchestral, wind ensemble, and choral pieces, which have been performed at Dixie State College. I am now attending Berklee College of Music and continue to write and record my own acoustic digital indie alternative orchestral who-knows-what pop music in my own homegrown portable studio.
