Welcome. I am a bass player, composer and music educator living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This site documents my various musical, scholarly, and teaching activities. I have a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from York University, and am currently employed as a sessional lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University and University of Toronto. Every now and then I find the time to make some music with my friends in bands such as Stranger Still, See Through 4, Molehill, and with Alasdair Roberts and Màiri Morrison. Please have a look and listen, and get in touch should you be curious about my work.

Stay tuned for a new album from Stranger Still, to be released in Spring 2026. Titled We Might Not Tell Everybody This, this third album by the band features 11 more songs set to the poetry of Alden Nowlan.

I’m very excited to have had the opportunity to make a record with legendary Scottish musicians Alasdair Roberts and Màiri Morrison. Remembered In Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia consists of Scottish songs - in English and Gaelic - collected in Nova Scotia by folklorist Helen Creighton in the mid-20th century. Recorded in Dartmouth Nova Scotia with a cast of musicians from Nova Scotia and Toronto and released on Chicago’s Drag City, Remembered in Exile is a real career and creative highlight for me, so please have a listen wherever fine music is heard these days.