I began piano studies at the age of eight and continued piano until deciding to switch to pipe organ performance and choral studies. Throughout my adolescent years, I played in competitions and completed piano and theory exams, and began teaching at the age of sixteen.

In beginning post-secondary studies at Algoma University, I became very involved in both secular choirs and church choirs, performing sacred and secular repertoire from the Middle Ages to the present. Upon transferring to the University of Windsor, I was honoured to be granted a performance scholarship for piano.

Being a singer in the University of Windsor Chamber Choir, we were given a wonderful performance opportunity to sing at Carnegie Hall under the direction of composer John Rutter. The Chamber Choir was the only Canadian choir invited to perform. Later in the year, I travelled to Croydon, England, to study at the Royal School of Church Music.

Throughout the years, I have taught at excellent music schools, the Algoma Conservatory of Music in Sault Ste. Marie,  and the Academie Ste. Cecile in Windsor.  I have recently retired as a music teacher from the Huron-Perth Catholic District School Board. During these years, I had the joy of conducting a school choir (the Salve Regina Singers), recorder and handbell performances, as well as concerts, arts festivals, and competitions. I am now blessed to serve as cantor and choral director at Holy Name of Mary Church.

A native of Ontario, I began studying piano at the age of ten. In secondary school, an exposure to 16^th and 17th-century music ‘spiked’ an interest in two earlier instruments…. The harpsichord and the recorder. 

Following secondary school, I served an enlistment in the United States Coast Guard.  During these years, I was involved with entertainment and musical theatre in California, New York City, and Connecticut. 

I received an international education at Oakland University in Michigan, and Western University in London, Ontario, with majors in music and European History.  My teachers in the field of early music included Lyle and Patricia Nordstrom, Raymond Ferguson, and composer Stanley Hollingsworth. My graduate study included a degree in Kodaly pedagogy and some courses in musicology. 

For several years I was an instructor of music at Our Lady Star of the Sea; a private Catholic school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.  While living in Windsor, I also taught at Windsor’s Academie Ste. Cecile, where I also met my wife, Michelle.

Over the years, I have enjoyed giving performances and talks on historic music for workshops, festivals, and museums in Canada, The USA, England, and Holland.  Closer to home, I have performed for the Guelph Spring Festival, The Stratford Chamber Music Series, and Stratford Summer Music.  I have also very much enjoyed directing the children’s ensemble Musica Antiqua, an advanced recorder consort based here in St. Marys.  In 2022, I was appointed organist for Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church.