I am a composer, producer, bassist, and business owner. My job is to make music. I've been professionally engaged in music-making for over 20 years and in that time have been involved with hundreds of recording projects encompassing just about every single conceivable circumstance one could possibly imagine... and a thousand-something performances along with 'em, the exact number likely being determined depending on whether you count theater concerts and garage parties with equal weight.

As bassist/composer with Dreadnaught, the ensemble I co-founded in 1996, I have recorded and released half a dozen albums, shared the stage with some of my very favorite musicians like John Entwistle, Tony Levin, and NRBQ, and performed in more than half the states in the union - AND got out of all of them alive and in one piece.

As an independent composer and producer, my work has been featured in award-winning films by companies such as Universal, Wander Films, and OxRock Productions, and can be heard daily as the theme music for the current events radio program "The Exchange" on New Hampshire Public Radio. I enjoy writing for all types of ensembles, and compose frequently for orchestra, chamber ensembles, electronics, 'rock' band, and more.

Since 2005, I have been the Music Director of The Music Hall/NHPR series "Writers On A New England Stage," for which Dreadnaught serves as house band. We've composed and arranged music for writers such as Stephen King, Madeleine Albright, Ken Burns, Alan Alda, E.L. Doctorow, Dan Brown, Mitch Albom, Elmore Leonard, and Gregory Mortensen, among others, and we were publically insulted by John Updike (OK OK, it was more of a lighthearted tweak, but still).

In early 2008, I founded PARMA Recordings, a production house based in the New Hampshire seacoast that works with orchestral ensembles, chamber groups, conductors, composers, and solo artists, and is focused upon, in the company's description, "the development and implementation of unique and immersive musical products and production solutions." In other words: we make music, and we make it well. My other companies include the Navona, Big Round, Capstone, Ravello, and Soundbrush labels, which are the release conduits for PARMA-produced material as well as independently created content.

///Summer 2010 update. Summer is upon us! Busy times. This month PARMA heads to Europe for recording sessions with orchestra and chamber ensembles which will last until mid-July. Just got back last week from a nice visit to Washington DC where we got to sit in on a taping of The McLaughlin Group, great stuff.

///New Dad State Of Mind. I co-produced a video by comedian Juston McKinney called "New Dad State Of Mind," Juston's truly hysterical take on parenting. Hatchling Studios, March Dole, and Michael Venn did a great visual send-up of Jay-Z, and Juston is hysterical as always. PARMA's Shaun Michaud recorded and performed the music, and PARMA's Renee Dupuis sang and is featured in the video. Shaun, Renee, Dreadnaught's Rick Habib, and I will appear live with Juston on December 19, 2010 as The Gaudy Baubles for "A Merry Funny New England Christmas" at The Music Hall in Portsmouth NH. Juston can be seen in his own Comedy Central special this summer.

///Writers On A New England Stage. The fall season of the acclaimed "Writers On A New England Stage" series from The Music Hall and NHPR featuring Dreadnaught kicks off on September 21, 2010 with Margaret Atwood. Other writers include Simon Winchester, Joseph J. Ellis, and Joyce Carol Oates. Visit www.themusichall.org for more information.

///New Reviews. Some of the records I've recently produced and executive produced have received outstanding reviews from the press. Here are just a few links:

MIKA MARIMBA MADNESS
(Mika Yoshida w/Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Peter Stoltzman)
Audiophile Audition: "Haven’t heard great jazz marimba like this since hearing Red Norvo live."

BIG MUDDY SUITE
(Patrick Beckman w/Richard Stoltzman)
MusicWeb International Review: "Instantly appealing work fusing jazz and contemporary musical language."

VESPERS
(Kile Smith/Piffaro/The Crossing)
Gramophone: "A quiet yet ecstatic work that offers a profoundly contemporary view of an ancient practice."

TRANSCENDENCE IN THE AGE OF WAR
(John Carollo)
TimeOut: "Stingingly poignant."

"Country-rock, avant-garde blues, prog-funk, experimental rock - any and all of these labels are accurate, yet each only begins to brush the surface of the band's style." (ALL MUSIC GUIDE)

"This is Art. This is the realization of a dream. This is intention and ambition married to execution and creativity... This is lights-off, lying on your bed, staring into the blackness stuff. Or something to have weird sex by. Your call." (THE PHOENIX)

"Talk about nuts - who else would have the stones to kick off their CD with a reference to Isaac Asimov ("R. Daneel Olivaw") by bouncing tinkling ivories over a thudding industrial beat? Or to name a song after a feisty freshwater game fish ("Northern Pike”), haul out that industrial beat and layer it over with whimsical harmonica, twangy blues guitar, and zippy strings? Gots to be Dreadnaught." (PROGRESSIVEWORLD)

June/July 2010
Sessions in Czech Republic with the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra and in Boston with chamber ensembles

July 17, 2010
Barley Pub (Dover NH)
With Dreadnaught

September 2010
Sessions in Czech Republic with the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra and in Boston MA and Washington DC with chamber ensembles

September 21, 2010
Writers On A New England Stage at The Music Hall in Portsmouth NH
Featuring Margaret Atwood and Dreadnaught

October 16, 2010
Barley Pub (Dover NH)
With Dreadnaught

November 11, 2010
Writers On A New England Stage at The Music Hall in Portsmouth NH
Featuring Simon Winchester and Dreadnaught

November 30, 2010
Writers On A New England Stage at The Music Hall in Portsmouth NH
Featuring Joseph J. Ellis and Dreadnaught

December 19, 2010
A Merry Funny New England Christmas
The Music Hall in Portsmouth NH
Featuring Juston McKinney and The Gaudy Baubles

March 28, 2011
Writers On A New England Stage at The Music Hall in Portsmouth NH
Featuring Joyce Carol Oates and Dreadnaught

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