Biography
- Graduate of Bowling Green State University with a Bachelors in Music Education, 1974
- While at BGSU, performed with a number of bands including Montage, Sunday Morning, and Steve Brown Trio; as well as numerous solo piano engagements
- Arranged music for the BGSU marching band
- 1974, formed the band Summer Breeze, which toured during the summers throughout Ohio and the southern states
- Performed with Good Company for 15 years, playing hundreds of wedding receptions and other private functions around north central Ohio
- Played clarinet with the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra and other chamber ensembles
- Formerly the music director for the Mansfield Playhouse
- Former member of the Miss Ohio Scholarship Pageant orchestra, and former musical arranger
- Freelance musician on keyboard, clarinet, and saxophone; has performed with such artists as Sarah Vaughn, Cab Calloway, Rosemary Clooney, Helen O’Connell, Kaye Ballard, Bobby Vinton, Fifth Dimension, and Sonny Geraci
- Plays clarinet with the Ribticklers, a popular Dixieland band
- Has played with several rock bands including The Islanders, Flashback, H.R. Garn Band
- Has played in numerous other bands from jazz to country-western
- Plays with the AFM 159 Big Jazz Band
- Leader of the contemporary praise band for The Church of the Cross in Lexington, Ohio
- Former public school music teacher and school administrator; currently is the Director of the Graduate Education Program at Ashland University
- Has recently been more and more in demand as a solo performer on piano and vocals