Before I could walk and talk, all I wanted to do was spend hours at the keyboard, plunking nonsense into existence. Now I’m a classically trained pianist of 16 years, with experience in pop, jazz, musical theatre, and nontraditional styles. Through the lenses of composer, music director, and piano teacher, I spend the majority of my time working with music as raw material and shaping it into various forms. Theory, intuition, tradition, creativity and iteration become tools to craft a song from an idea, a sh