HISTORY AND EDUCATION

• Born in San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco State Performance Major
• Private study with Julian Priester, Bobby Hutcherson and Will Sudmeier La Escuela Nacional in Havana Cuba

INSTRUMENTS

• Trombone · Keyboards · Vocals

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS

• Co-composed and co-arranged, along with Jon Jang, the soundtrack to "Speaking in Tongues," an award-winning documentary about bilingual education, currently broadcasting nationwide on PBS: www.speakingintonguesfilm.info
• Received a 2002 San Francsico Arts Comission grant for composing the music to The Quilt
• Received a 2002 Creative Work Fund grant for composing the music to The Quilt
• Composed and arranged the music for Entre El Aliento y El Sol for the New Shoes/Old Souls dance company, in January 1999
• Composed and arranged the music for The Quilt, a spoken word/dance piece based on a quilt designed by the artist Faith Ringold
• Composed and arranged the music for Dance Variations a suite for piano, cello and percussion for Jean Jeanrenaud of the Kronos String Quartet
• Received a 1996 grant from the ZellerbachFoundation for composition of a Jazz/Afro-Cuban musical suite
• Taught a Jazz and Blues Workshop at the National School of the Arts in Havana Cuba, in March 1994
• Received a 1993 N.E.A. grant for jazz composition to compose a three part suite Digging Up the Roots reflecting the diverse musical cultures of the San Francisco Bay Area
• Composed and arranged the music for the American Conservatory Theater 1993 production of Pecong by Steve Carter
• Awarded the 1993 Bay Area Theater Critics Award for best original score in a drama for the musical Pecong
• Co-composed and arranged the music for the 1991 Theater Works world premiere of the musical Go Down Garvey by Danny Duncan
• Taught a Afro-Cuban music workshop in West Germany June-July 1989