Location: Orchard Park, NY
Speaks: English
Instructs: Bass Guitar, Guitar, Ukulele
Education: • Graduate of the Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood, CA. 1983.
• Certificate from "REH" Guitar Education Center in Seattle, WA. 1982
• Attended the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Workshops in Sacramento, CA. 1980 - Studied directly
under the late Stan Kenton
Performance Experience: • Appearances on “Live @ Zero BPM” –Dave Hill Group 2020-2021 - LiveAtZeroBPM.com
• World wide tour with British Singer Englebert Humperdink. 2005-2006
• Performed in the Los Angeles area with original contemporary jazz group,
“Dave Hill Group". Performs at such notable clubs as "La Ve Lee", “Spaghettinis",
& the “The Baked Potato.”
• Freelance professional guitarist in greater Los Angeles area. 1983-Present.
Teaching Experience: • Instructor at Los Angeles’s Musicians Institute – 1989 – present (Currently “on-line instructor”)
• Recorded content for Jude Gold’s – “No Guitar is Safe” Podcast-2020
• Author of Popular Hal Leonard book- “The Lictionary”
• Has appeared in Guitar Player Magazine as Columnist author for instructional series.
Lesson was recorded for “NOTES ON CALL” and released on compilation CD.
• On Staff at Los Angeles Music Academy in Pasadena California. . 2001- 2016