Music Graduate (May 2003) from Mount Allison University, New Brunswick
main instrument is the alto saxophone
also play piano, clarinet, percussion, and a variety of others things
trying my hand at composing
currently working at Larsen Music in Victoria, B.C. where I teach sax and clarinet and coordinate all of the music lessons.
love to play jazz and blues, but try a little bit of everything
love to listen to all kinds of music if its good :)
Music Quotes of the Month:
"I don't think that any civilized society can call itself civilized without having an awareness of the arts, not as an occasional adornment to society, but as a basic necessity." -Isaac Stern
"The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer." -Arnold Bennett (I find this one highly amusing)
"Music is a means of unifying broad masses of people." -Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin
"Would thou know if a people be well governed, if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices." -Confucius
"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the secret places of the soul." -Plato
"The jazz mania has taken on the character of a lingering illness and must be cured by means of forceful public intervention." - Boris Gibalin, 'Izvestia', Sept. 28, 1958