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Services

General Private Instruction - Starting this year (2025), I am accepting private students for the first time in five years. Visit the “Contact” page to inquire about private instruction for guitar, piano, bass, and drums. Music production, songwriting, music theory, and composition instruction lessons are also available.

Festival Audition Prep - All-Cape, Southeast District, Massachusetts auditions…

College Audition Prep - For students planning on auditioning for college music programs, instruction is limited to contemporary music (non-classical).

Current Experience

Sturgis Public Charter High School - IB Music Teacher, Jazz Band & Choir Director
(A U.S. Blue Ribbon School and ranked 28th nationally and 1st in Massachusetts by Newsweek)

Past Experience

Berklee College of Music - Magna Cum Laude graduate
Cape Symphony & Conservatory - Teaching faculty
Baer’s Music Service LLC - Owner and operator of a private music instruction business in Berkeley, California
Professional Performing Musician - Over 30 releases on record labels throughout the U.S.
The Guitarist’s Palette - Author of a 200+ page method book