"For me the guitar has and will always be an economical and versatile instrument with which to play a wide variety of music and develop musical skills in an enjoyable way." The photograph to the right was taken many years ago when I was at college.

I first learned the guitar with Eli Kassner, a well-known teacher in Toronto, Canada. As an undergraduate student, I also studied for a few months with Daniel Garate in Mexico City. I graduated with a degree in philosophy from the University of Toronto.

After graduating, I played guitar for a season with the theater orchestra at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada and took part in student recitals and Kiwanis competitions. I also performed guitar-voice concerts with a soprano at University of Toronto and studied composition with Gordon Delamont, a teacher and composer, also in Toronto.

In 1976, I obtained a graduate degree in Environmental Studies. I have taught on-line courses for teachers through Ottawa University and Arizona State University Department of Education.

Over the past five years, I have taught music for a year at Kingswood Elementary in Dysart and taught for three semesters as the music teacher at other Dysart Schools as a long-term substitute teacher. I also taught a guitar class for two years at Paradise Education Center.