Education

• University of North Texas
• Cal Arts

Favorite saying

• ""There is no future, there is no past, I live this moment as my last. There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today" -RENT (In memory of Zac) "Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference" - Robert Frost " Why be a second-rate Ravel, when you are a first-rate Gershwin?" - Maurice Ravel "An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted." - Claudio Arrau "Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away" "Be the best you can be in what you do, where you're at, with what you have."-Mr. Helmuth "Live Life to it's fullest"-Ernest Hemingway "My life is like a poem, because I composed it. Unfortunately, I wrote it in pen, so I can't erase any mistakes." "You don't know something until it's gone" "The choices you make today, shape your world tomorrow"- Mr. Coburn "In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"- Igor Stravinsky "A Best friend sees the pain in your eyes when everyone else believes the smile on your face.." "Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art" - Brian Eno "Where words fail, music speaks" -Hans Christian Anderson "The act of playing involves total immersion in the music: hearing, seeing, reacting, and feeling. Once you are playing it is too late for thinking. Indeed, thinking while playing generally takes the form of concern for past mistakes or of future disasters. Avoid this distraction. Keep yourself in the here-and-now." -Leon Russianoff"