My love for film music started at a very early age. One of my first memories is standing in front of a big screen TV in Sam's Club watching a clip from Days Of Thunder and just being blown away by the music. After that came the score to Independence Day. For some reason the main theme stuck with me, and was in fact the first thing that I figured out on the piano. Then I started looking at film music in a different way--not only as catchy melodies but as a way of explaining images without speech. It really is one of the purest of art forms and one from which I am always a student of. I have been playing music since about four years old and started writing before I could actually read musical notation (which I still have difficulty with). When I was around nine or ten a friend of mine played a song I had showed her in her piano recital. So I guess you could say since then I was a composer. I started with a basic keyboard and a Cakewalk sequencer. My first experiences writing with multiple instruments was horrible. I once wrote a song that dragged on for fifteen minutes and I made my poor mom sit through it. But after years of playing around in my room and constantly listening to scores from other composers I finally decided to start doing it for real. The first thing I wrote to a picture was a short opening cue for my High Schools morning news show (from which I was music director of anyways). From there I did a few short films from which I just gave them a CD and they took what ever music they wanted (to this day I have never heard from that "director" so I do not even know what the movie was called or if I even got credit). Then I moved on to commercial projects and other films both feature and short length. I have also worked with bands on intros and arrangements for their songs.

If you ever want me to work on your film project just shoot me an email or leave me a message. This is a blast for me to do so most of the time no project is too small. I love working with both first time and seasoned directors.

You know where to find me. ds

By the way, I hope you like all my snazzy page titles, I sound jazzy.