Concurrent with my composition studies at the university, I led a successful rock band and kept busy playing and recording my music. Almost from the start, critics and audiences were moved by our groups's evolving musical style, even though they were unable to categorize what that musical style was. What followed was greater commercial success, but I no longer experienced the energy and sense of innovation I had received during those earlier days. Those things that are most truly important to us never really disappear. Our lives are circumscribed by cycles that always return us to our natural centers.
Old loves are deepest loves.
My adolescent desire for a music that could synthesize diverse musical traditions into something new has matured into a need to refine, record and perform this complex music for audiences everywhere. As a journeyman musician, I have had to write, play and record in all different styles to make a living. But prog rock, along with classical music, is the music I have always come home to, the music that continues to challenge and inspire me.