I’m a singer-songwriter, composer, and producer. I create my tracks from the ground up – vocals, guitar, and keys – drawing on folk, pop, indie, and classical styles.

 The Firefly Lullaby proved so effective in helping the little ones sleep that it became my daughters’ top-played track on Spotify. Hush Little Baby keeps the traditional melody but swaps the original “buy your calm” lyrics for gentler ones, by request. That song now finds its way into bedtime routines as often as Firefly.

Some pieces came from heartfelt requests: Lavender Wine was born when one of my daughters asked me to sing at her wedding. I was so touched, I wanted to do one better, so I wrote a new song for the couple. Dawn’s Break Over the Malvern Hills and Lux Aeterna both have similar family origins. No one asked me to write The Birdbath, but maybe that’s because birds can’t talk.

I like writing songs that mean something to me, and that maybe challenge the listener a little. Where Does It Begin celebrates the Grace that flows all around us. There aren’t many love songs for tyrants, but Ode to a Tyrant is one (tough love?). Few songs tackle road rage, but I took a crack at it with Ancient Rails. I wrote Refugee, about the war in Ukraine, in the hope it might help some Ukrainians feel more supported by the West – and perhaps inspire some Western listeners to look more closely at the conflict.

Before music became my focus, I was a physicist, a systems engineer, a software engineer, and finally a machine learning researcher. Every so often, my past peeks through – as in Theoretical Physics and The Quantum Mechanical Blues. (OK, “one plus one is fourteen” is an oblique reference to the fact that you have to divide by the square root of two when you sum two normalized wave functions…)

If my music touches you, please do share it, and let me know what you think in the YouTube comments sections. I read them all and respond to most. Thanks!