I teach music.

Specializing in guitar, bass, drums, percussion, DJ tech, audio recording and live sound tech, I also teach voice. I let the student pick the song and I determine whether or not the student is ready to learn the song. And then we tackle all the musical aspects that the song brings. It’s had such a success rate that I’ve already got 3 students already playing professionally and one who’s started the summer program at Berkley on a scholarship! (so stoked for you, Aiden!) After only teaching 4 years in the Boston area, I knew that someday I would teach when I settled down. But defining settling down is everywhere on the spectrum for me lately. I’m so blessed that I can still do both live work and teach as well. And I really love my day gig.

I have also worked as a music therapist for mentally disabled people at a place next to Tufts University in Cambridge called Outside The Lines. It’s been extremely rewarding as well. It’s also stepped up my game with kids and helped me hone my craft as a teacher. And the most interesting times come as a pleasant surprise with what a developmentally disabled person does with the information they’re given. Where they take it musically with the “structure” out the window is always an interesting place and provides me with new challenges to make music out of it and sort of  ‘glue’ the pieces together….   and the friends I’ve made there will last lifetimes.