Education

  • University of Miami — two years majoring in studio music and jazz (principal instrument, bass guitar)
  • New College, Sarasota, Florida — one year majoring in music composition and music theory
  • Harvard University — BA
  • Worcester State University — MA

Experience

  • Began playing bass professionally at 15 in a country/bluegrass band
  • Booked my own band for a summer in Vero Beach, Florida at age 20
  • Twelve years with the Vin Mitchell Band in Boston
  • Three years with the Marty Gilman Band in Worcester
  • Private instructor at Clemente Guitar Studio
  • 25 years classroom teaching experience

Musical Theater Experience

  • Cape Rep — Come On-a-My House, Sunday in the Park with George
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts — Mary Poppins, Tribute to Mary Martin & Ethel Merman, Sondheim & Schwartz
  • Tilden Theater — The Prom, Come From Away
  • Eventide Theater — You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
  • Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theater — Pippin
  • Nauset HS — Anything Goes; Mamma Mia
  • Academy of Performing Arts — The Sound of Music, Grease, Heathers, The Wizard of Oz, Young Frankenstein, Elf
  • In Worcester– Bye, Bye Birdie, Jekyll & Hyde
April, 2026 Come From Away Pit Band.