Musical Background

I needed an art credit for high school. Guitar 101 seemed slightly preferable to Pottery so I registered for the class—well, it was all over from there. A decade of à la carte study involving countless teachers and bands, a pact with myself to play guitar every day, and spending worrying amounts of time in my room listening to and reading about music eventually culminated at the university.

In 2022, I graduated at the top of my class from the University of Washington School of Music (4.0 GPA), where I studied Guitar Performance, Music Theory, and Music History. Two merit-based scholarships paid for my guitar studies in which I performed as a soloist and in various guitar ensembles, participated in masterclasses with international artists, and received private instruction from the head of the department. I also began a “second life” as a singer where I was a member of the university’s premier auditioned choir, Chamber Singers, while also receiving private instruction on vocal technique.

Additionally, I’m the Executive Director of the Klaus Lendzian Archive (KLA), an organization founded in 2018 to preserve and promote the life and music of the late Seattle guitarist-composer Klaus Lendzian, and am the Bass Section Leader at Lake Washington United Methodist Church where I perform a new handful of songs live every Sunday.