Composer | Producer | Arranger

Composition

• National Film Board: First Title, a documentary about CBC Radio and Minister of Everything, a documentary dealing with the life of the influential Canadian politician, C. D. Howe, both directed by Robert Duncan.

• ACCESS Alberta: Kananiskis Video Disk, Satellite Sign-On, (theme and incidental music for satellite premiere), ACCESS Alberta Logo and Variations, all music for all productions in the 12 part TV series, Project 80. Program themes and incidental music for Landscapes, Bankhead, Person’s Case, Children’s News, Harriet’s Magic Hats, The Way I See, 3 Hour Package, Environmental School, Crabdance, Where Do the Children Play, Finding My Own Way, You’re It, Take Time and others.

Production

• for ACCESS Alberta: Studio/Work in Progress (radio series), String Instructional Techniques (radio series), Exshaw Environmental School (slide/Tape demo),
• for Alberta Education: Where Do the Childeren Play? (Slide/Tape)

Instructor /Consultant
• Instructor, Grant MacEwan Community College (Edmonton); Jazz instruction at Banff Centre School of Fine Arts; Performance, Theory and Improvisation, Black Cat School of Music, Banff.

• Instructor, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Recording Arts Program, Broadcast Applications for Digital Music Synthesis.

• Consultant, Mount Royal College (Calgary), design of Music & Computers program, Banff Centre InterArts Program, Digital Synthesis and Composition for Performance (workshops).

Education and Training
Banff Centre School of Fine Arts: Workshops with Steve Reich, John Cage, R. Murray Schaffer, Oscar Peterson, Carl Berger, Ursula Oppens, and other influential contemporary composers, (1980-84); Stephen Temmer, audio engineering  (1982); Gene Youngblood, future of electronic media (1983)

Other Clients:

Cooper & Hayes Advertising
University of Calgary
88 Olympics
Travel Alberta
Alberta Heritage
Alberta Parks
Edmonton Social Planning Council
Magpie Media
Calgary Stampede Board CFAC Television
CFCN Television
Shell Oil

Esso Resources
Petro Canada
Business Video Productions Ltd.
Say Cheese Productions
Blaskin & Lane Ltd.
LIB Consultants Ltd.
Firstline Financial Services
Stampede Park Racing
The Brick Warehouse
Calgary and Region - Educational Television

Formal Study: University Of Calgary  (1970-1973), Composition with Luigi Zanninelli, Piano with Gloria Saarinen, Electronic Music, Stan Finn, Film History with Miroslav Malik (Czeck pioneer of holography in art).

Published Recordings: The Golden Highway, Stonehenge is Burning, Restless Hearts, Spring is in the Poet, Healing Moon, Classics in Nature Series: "Bach", "Beethoven", "Fauré & Saint-Saëns", Pachelbel’s Canon in D, (This title has sold over a million units in the USA and Canada), Eric Satie's Three Gymnopédies, Elements, Closer to the Shore, Dolphins, Songs to the Beloved, Late July, Christmas Light, Folksongs and Dances of the Post Industrial Age, To Heal the Earth, Coelenterata.

Performer
• pianist - Hotel Vancouver, Princess Cruises, Lake Okanagan Resort, Kananaskis Hotel ('88 Winter Olympics), Chateau Lake Louise, Banff Springs Hotel, Jasper Park Lodge, Four Seasons Hotel, Private Clubs
• Piano Improvisation Concerts (Western Canada)    
• Alberta performance delegate to Expo ‘86
• acted in the role of the guest composer in the ACCESS Alberta production, The Magic Ring.

Independent study: Composition with European composer Hidayat Inayat Khan, (1980-present) Electronic music (1970 - present), computer assisted composition, performance and arranging (1972 - present), Music theory, Gordon Delamont, (1971-75).

• Objectives Teaching Course, in service training, Grant MacEwan Community College (1974-75)
• Native Indian Culture with Abe Burnstick (1976-77)
• Improvisational Acting with Keith Johnstone (1976)

Professional Organizations: Guild of Canadian Film Composers, SOCAN, SoundExchange, Calgary Musician's Association, Vancouver Musician's Association, MusicBC, The Vancouver Music Industry, The Canadian Independent Recording Artists' Association (CIRAA)

Musical Director/Stage Productions - Stage adaptation of Jan Truss’ Jasmine (Canada Council), One Yellow Rabbit Theatre Company, Roaring 20’s, and Jacques Brel Cabaret (Jasper Theatre), Godspell (Calgary), Blue Denim (Edmonton). The Mount Royal College Fiddlers, The Charles Dickens Singers, RCMP Centennial Show, The Rolling Ratz Revue. Assistant Musical Director The Vancouver Universal Gospel Choir, Arrangements for numerous vocalists, floor shows, jazz ensembles, big bands, and pop choirs.