He is a classical guitarist, artistic director and
teacher who began playing the guitar when he was 9 years old and later graduated
from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He took master classes with Eliot Fisk, David Russell, Leo
Brouwer, Luciano Pavarotti and Yehudi Menuhin among others and private
studies with the pianist Alicia de Larrocha, and after leaving his
education he became an assistant to Michael Lorimer at his masterclass in
North Carolina, which would cover the entire year.While he was there he would also
specially perform for Andres Segovia. In his professional career he has performed at many major
international venues such as London's Wigmore Hall, Sapporo in Japan and
the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and with acclaimed artists and groups
such as Ivo Pogorelic, Cecelia Bartoli, Itzhak Perlman, the Oregon Symphony
Orchestra, the Cascade and Sunriver Festival Orchestras and the Kronos and
Emerson String Quartets.Championing the American composer, David Maclaine, he has premiered
many of is commissioned works in numerous American cities.As an artistic director he has
worked closely with The Third Angle New Music Ensemble and since 1996 gas
worked in collaboration with the soprano Janet Chvatal.As a teacher in Portland, Oregon, he
has taught students that have gone on to win competitions and attend
schools such as the North Carolina School of the Arts, the San Francisco
Conservatory, The Juilliard School and The Royal Conservatory of Music in
London, and later have a successful musical career.
