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Musician – Electric/Acoustic guitar – Bass – Keyboard – Piano - Uke - Voice - Drum Programming/Ableton - Synthesizers

Teacher – Technique – Composition – Theory - Musicianship

Songwriter/Composer ~ Engineer/Producer

Education:

  • BA in Music from the University of California at Santa Cruz, 2006

Teaching Experience:

  • Self-employed private music instructor in the Monterey Bay/San Francisco Bay area, 20+ years.  

  • Guitar teacher (beginning to upper-intermediate level) at Santa Cruz New Music S’cool 2005 - 2008.  

  • Guitar, Bass, Rock Band teacher (beginning to upper-intermediate level at VIBO Music School in San Francisco – Feb 2008 – June 2010. Victor Lin, Owner.

  • Musical director of private youth rock band “The Rotten Kids” (2007 - 2011)

  • Musical director of private youth rock band “Cat Hole” (2011 - 2020)

  • Teacher at SF Rock Project (including directing their summer camp program) (2013 - present)

  • Director of after school band classes at Brandeis School of San Francisco (2014 - 2015)

  • Substitute Teacher at the East Bay School For Boys Rock Band Class (2020)

Film/Video/Game Music Composition:

  • Music scoring for video game (“Spelldrifter”) for Free Range Games

  • Music scoring for commercials for Restoration Hardware (various promo campaigns)

  • Music scoring for commercials for J. Walter Thompson (for the “21 Crimes Winery” campaign)

  • Music scoring for commercial for law firm of Minnis & Smallets LLP

  • Score for “Demonic Ties” - short film by Alex Benjamin

  • Score for “Masha Time” - children’s television show pilot by Alan Price

  • Left Coast Digital – DVD menu music

  • Blue Wolf Productions – soundtrack to “Behind The Scenes of 'Eight Tens at Eight'”

Bands/Sideman/Session work: 

  • Con Brio (2021 - Present) - Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals, Songwriting, Production

  • Suzanimal - Guitar/Keyboards/Songwriting  (2018 - Present)

  • Animal Prince - Keyboards (2023-Present)

  • King Dream - Guitar/Keyboards (2024-Present)

  • Whiskerman - Guitar (2024-Present)

  • Hot Brother - Keyboards (2024-Present)

  • Battlehooch (2007 – present) Founding Memeber - Guitar, Vocals, Songwriting, Production

  • Kendra McKinley Band - Guitar/Bass/Keyboards/Vocals (2014 - present)

  • On staff Session Musician at Tiny Telephone Recording Studio (2015 - present)

  • Roem Baur Band - Guitar/Keyboards/Vocals/Songwriting/Music Director (2016 - present)

  • Lucky Devils Band - Guitar (2017- present) 

  • Golden Bell Music - Guitar (2019-present)

  • Sun Hop Fat - Guitar (2023- present)

  • Quinn Deveaux and The Blue Beat Revue– Keyboards/Guitar (2018 - 2020)

  • The Witch and The Wizard - Guitar/Vocals (2017 - Present)

  • Kokomo Hum - Guitar/Vocals (2016-2018)

  • Tony Glaser and the Party - Guitar (2019 - present)

  • Sunfellow - Guitar/Synth/Piano (2018 - 2020)

  • The Boyfriends - Guitar (2019)

  • The Lovely Public – Keyboards/Guitar (2007)

  • maus haus – Bass/Trumpet (2011)

  • Pit Orchestra for various Musical theater productions

Record Producer:  

  • RELMS - Blazing A Path To The Wormhole (2021)

  • Hexcellent - Various Singles (2021)

  • Battlehooch (all EPs and LPs 2007- current)

  • Roem Baur -  EP - (2020)

  • Van Goat - Follow Me Under LP (2018)

  • The Californicorns - Warm Oakland Nights LP (2018)

  • Van Goat - So Far Not Good EP (2017)

  • Kendra McKinley - Treat LP (2016)

  • The Damn Fanatics - The Damn EP (2015)

  • Van Wave - self titled EP (2015)