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I compose various styles of music for all types of genres including rock, acoustic, indie, orchestral, broadway, instrumental, gospel, and etc. I have written music for commercials and other artists around the globe. I’m self-taught on the piano, guitar, drums, vocals and a little bit of a lot of things. I have been composing and writing lyrics for the last 12 years. I am currently focusing on writing and recording my own fusion of orchestral indie rock alternative stuff pop what?
About
When six years of age, on the hot streets of Arizona, my mother’s tapes of Enya and Yanni were instilled in my mind as my first musical influences. I began to teach myself the piano and guitar at the age of eleven. I immediately showed an interest in writing music when I scrawled out my first composition with a runny pen on homemade staff paper. At that time I was really into Rachmaninoff so my first song happened to be in C harmonic minor (whatever that means). From time to time I would invent little ditties that were never written. When I was fifteen I began writing a series of instrumental piano solos and I also started my first four-piece band. One year later I started a new and improved band “The Quorum”, with drums, bass, guitar, keyboard, violin, and saxophone. During that time I began to develop my interest in recording, and aside from the band I began to record a series of digital instrumental music.
After a few years of playing shows and filtering through band members we recorded a self-titled twelve-song album. At the age of nineteen I went to Monterrey Mexico for two years to serve an LDS mission. Upon returning I began to compose orchestral, wind ensemble, and choral pieces, which have been performed at Dixie State College. I am now attending Berklee College of Music and continue to write and record my own acoustic digital indie alternative orchestral who-knows-what pop music in my own homegrown portable studio.



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