Relationships or Bust

Healthy relationships, in music as in life, are key to a thriving arts career.

We are a husband and wife team (pianist/composer - singer/pedagogue/voice scientist), drawing inspiration working together with a shared sense of play in performances, commissioning projects, lecture discussions, mentoring, and embracing new ideas. In our personal lives we are proud parents, geo-tourists and mushroom obsessed hikers trekking through remote area of Northern California in search of hot springs and other geological oddities.

My wife is a unicorn, an elite scientific researcher who started her career investigating telomeres (the ends of DNA) by day at Rockefeller University, gigging in the New York opera/recital world by night; fusing her passions to become one of the premier voice scientist/pedagogues around. I’ve always been more of a dreamer, a pianist masquerading as a poet and comparative literature junkie fascinated by creativity and our innate expressive capacity as humans. My career path embraces group creative projects that invite others into the process through composer residencies and multi artist commissioning projects.

Music making and creativity should be fun; we embrace this idea and our life is filled with ease.

We celebrate the pursuit of individual paths because we are a product of them - our shared ADHD tendencies allow us to develop our passions in unexpected ways. I developed as a composer by spending a gap year in San Francisco writing poetry and improvising. Heidi’s Bells Palsy affliction at the height of her career forced her to completely reevaluate the established views of the vocal pedagogy world.

Whether working with fellow neurodivergent artists, veterans struggling with PTSD, or complete beginners grappling with unorthodox creative approaches, we bring a uniquely wholistic approach informed by the latest scientific research coupled with years of experiential practice.

Navigating the minefield that is a career in the arts is difficult enough; we all need to better understand how our minds and bodies work so we can have more success doing what we love.