In 2010 I found a free web site called ReverbNation where artists, both amateur and professional, can upload music they have written and/or recorded. I opened an account there and uploaded my best recordings. Later on I found and started to use an Internet site called Box, also free, and I started uploading a lot of those same older recordings, as well as some more current recordings I had made, to that site. I then closed the ReverbNation account and decided to use only the Box site from now on. I made several folders in Box and started filling them with different "Sets" of music, like Golden Oldies, Latin Music, 50's and 60's music, Classical Themes, and Faith and Inspiration music that reflect my own performance books that I use in my solo piano gigs, and music I use in church environments. Some of the folders, at this writing, are still empty, but as I make more recordings, I will start to add recordings to all of the folders at the Box site. If you would like to listen to some of my recordings, you can easily get to them by clicking HERE. Then if you like some of them, you can go back to that site now and then to listen to any new recordings that I have made and uploaded to the site. I hope to have many new recordings sent out from now (September of 2015) until my life comes to a close. All of the newer recordings will be in their own folder called "New Music" for awhile, and then I'll eventually transfer them to the Set folders they would best fit into.
Though I have always been an amateur and simple piano player, making music has always been an important life-long hobby of mine, and I was involved with countless music groups and took on countless projects that came my way, as well as projects I took on just because I wanted to for myself. Recently, and for several years I played with a small band called "The Mixed Nuts." The band plays mostly big band music for senior people that grew up with that music, and the band became very popular in the Salt Lake Valley. I and our sax playing band leader formed the band (long story) in the spring of 2009, and the band settled on five regular members, (sax, drums, bass, piano, and vocalist), as well as several substitutes for the times we couldn't play. In 2009, our band was booked for 63 gigs, in 2010 about 85 gigs, in 2011 about 110 gigs, meaning that we started played more than twice every week of the year. The number of gigs kept rising until by the spring of 2012, the band showed nearly 300 engagements ahead of us. Because of all these band gigs, as well as all of the music that the leader and I arranged (over 700 songs), it became too much for me, and in order to take my life back and pursue my own dream, that of playing solo piano engagements and teaching classical music appreciation classes at senior residences and senior centers, I resigned from the band in October 2012. Nevertheless, I still like the band very much, though I haven't attended any of its shows since I left, and I occasionally keep track of the band's engagements on its web site, mainly because it makes my day when I see two or three engagements in one day that I don't have to go to. It can be visited here using this link: The Mixed Nuts Band
To further describe a few more things beyond the musical involvements described above, I have almost constantly been involved with a large variety of musical projects and with many other musical groups that stretches from Germany and Austria, where I was known as an organist and piano player for church services, amateur concerts, musical productions (The Fantasticks and Promenade), touring ensembles, etc. to many musical offerings throughout the Salt Lake City and Provo areas in Utah. The countless musical programs and groups I have been involved with over the years include accompanying many choirs, both church and secular, being an organist in the Provo LDS Tabernacle (before the building was gutted by fire), playing service music for several churches including LDS, United Methodist, and Catholic, and accompanying many soloists and as a member of many ensembles, including a rock band. All of this music has definitely enriched my entire life in so many ways, and I am very thankful that I was encouraged by my wonderful parents to take piano lessons starting at age seven. Thanks Mom and Dad!
Written November 2011 and updated September 2015.
