A full time professional performing musician for decades, since my late teens, I started teaching later in life in 2002. I started teaching the piano at Our Lady Star of the Sea in Cape May from 2002 until they closed in 2010. I then began teaching piano in North Wildwood at Wildwood Catholic and Cape Trinity until 2014 when they dissolved the music program. Since then, I have continued to teach students privately. I am a classically trained conservatory (college) educated musician. I attended the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and the Philadelphia Conservatory which is now the University of the Arts. I studied music composition and theory at the Julliard School in NYC. I was also a teacher and co-founder of Mays Landing Music Academy from 2006 to 2020 as well as a (semi-retired) working and performing professional player.