From California, has been living and working in Berlin and Europe since 2004. After successfully completing his Bachelor of Music degree in Trumpet Performance at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he moved to Berlin in order to continue his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler with Bill Forman. Since graduating in 2007 he has become very active in the German modern music scene both as a soloist and as an ensemble player. He regularly performs with ensemble mosaik, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Ensemble Musikfabrik in Cologne, and Klangforum Wien. He is a founding member of Ensemble Apparat. As a soloist he has premiered new works by Liza Lim, Gerhard Stäbler, Helmut Zapf, and many other composers.