He is a musician, arranger, conductor, contractor, composer,
producer and teacher born to a Quaker family in Detroit, Michigan, who performs
on the mandolin and violin among other string instruments.He started to learn the violin when
he was five years old and went on to later gain degrees in performance of
the instrument from Indiana University and Yale School of Music. Performing from the 1980s as
a soloist and member of ensembles such as the Sacred Arts String Quartet,
Nashville String Machine and the Triumphant Quartet, he can also be found as a
string section contractor working on many TV shows, recordings and concerts.
Performing with hundreds of
artists through the course of his career in his capacity as strings
contractor or musician, he has worked with A-Ha, Alabama,
Backstreet Boys, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Vassar
Clements, Michael
Crawford, Billy Ray Cyrus, Charlie Daniels, Dixie Chicks,
Crystal Gayle, Nanci
Griffith, Wynonna Judd, Brenda Lee,
Richard Marx, The Mavericks, Martina
McBride
, Mickey Newbury, Dolly
Parton, LeAnn Rimes, The Statler Brothers, Cat Stevens, Pam
Tillis
, Randy Travis, Andy
Williams and Trisha Yearwood to name just a very few.The albums this musician has
appeared on are countless and number into the hundreds at least and
mentioning just a minute portion of them they include his own O Then I'll
Think of Thee with Russell Davis, Everyday I Love You, Pt. 1 by
Boyzone, Ropin' the Wind by Garth Brooks, Far Side of the World by Jimmy
Buffett
, Boy In Me by Glen
Campbell , Christmas to
Remember by Amy Grant, Shadowland by k.d. Lang, Room for
Squares by John Mayer, Undiscovered by James Morrison, Face the
Promise by Bob
Seger , Rising by Bruce Springsteen, Eye to the
Telescope by K.T. Tunstall and Prairie Wind by Neil Young.His work in the movies includes him
appearing as a musician on Dreamscape, as a conductor and arranger
on Chrome and Hot Leather, as a composer and arranger on The Thing
With Two Heads and on the soundtracks of Dear Frankie, Dick and
Second Chance. On other
sides of the industry he has taught as a Violin Instructor at Yale
University and is currently on the board of the Recording Musician
Association's Nashville Chapter. His wife is the violist Monisa Angell.
