Selected Recent Credits :
  •   Keyboardist for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, now in its 14th season on NBC.

     
  •   Produced an album for multi-talented singer-songwriter Max Gabriel for sonaBLAST! records. Max's myspace page

 

  • Music Player Live! Musical Director and Keyboardist for Music Player Live's tribute to Les Paul concert at Roseland, NYC. Featured artists included Adrian Belew, Robin Ford, Larry Carlton, Lisa Loeb and others. 

 

  • The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival Scored "All Bookies Wear Speedos" written and directed by Jack Bank for Jacked Productions. Premier November, 2005 at NY Independent Film and Video Festival. FLASH: "SPEEDOS" WON MEDAL FOR BEST MUSIC AT 2006 PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL, JAN 2006

 

 

  • Scored "Vito After" produced and directed by Maria Pusateri, premiere at Chicago Indiefest www.vitoafter.com.


  • NAKED MOVIES Naked Movies by The Coalition released on Midlantic Ricords has received  great reviews in Rolling Stone, Keyboard, Bass Player and Downbeat + many online reviews. For more info go to the official band website:
    www.coalitiongroove.com


    THE BAND:THE CD:


  • Scored "16W" directed by Gerald Slota, produced by Elena Spiotta and Fred Duignan, premiered at Woodstock Film Festival. Official 16W website: www.16W-pilot.com
     

  • Produced and composed music for indie film "Messengers" directed by Philip Farha, produced by Alvaro Donado and Meryl Emmerton.
    Messengers at IMDB.com


  • Scoring award-winning NYC indy director/writer Joseph Moran's new feature film "Borrowed Lives."
    www.mediabelow14th.com/film


  • Also for Below 14th Street: scored short films "Where Babies Come From," "A Perspective," "The F Word," "Dumb Blondes," "Killer," "Men," "White Trash Revisited," "3 Yentas," and "Jagermiester" as part of Joseph Moran's continuing "JokesDotCom" series. These critically acclaimed shorts have been featured at several film festivals and are part of an ongoing collaboration with this up and coming filmmaker.

  • Musical director and keyboardist for three tracks the Grammy-nominated release "Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan" on Sony/Columbia. Produced by Joel Moss, executive producer Jeffery Gaskill, this cd features Dylan and many great gospel performers including The Mighty Clouds of Joy, Dottie Peoples, Tramaine Hawkins, Aaron Neville and Shirley Ceasar.
    Reviews


  • Performed on and co-wrote for Mary Fahl's critically acclaimed release "The Other Side of Time".
    Review || www.sony.com.


  • Music supervisor and consultant for "The Broken Wings of Elijah Footfalls" by Gabriel Judet-Weinshel. This beautiful 45 minute film was selected for screening and received second place at the 2002 IFP Conference in NYC.

  • Scored "The Biggest Mess" starring Mark Flores, David Bimbi, Bradley Thomason, directed by Joseph Moran, produced by Jeffery Parsons.

  • The Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Randall Fleischer conductor, commissioned an original orchestral work.

  • Performed 5 shows with rock legend Bruce Springsteen and the Max Weinberg 7; the sold-out holiday shows benefitted local Asbury Park, NJ charities and featured guest artists Elvis Costello, Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa, and Bruce Hornsby.

  • Scored indie director/writer Laura Levine's new feature film "Digging for Dutch," a feature length documentary about the search for the infamous gangster Dutch Schultz's missing millions, supposedly buried deep in the Catskills. (Hokey Pictures, premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival 2001 and featured at the Endinburg Film Festival August 2002). This film received the New York City Film Project's Torchlight Award for Best Feature and is currently seeking nationwide release.

    Visit the Digging For Dutch website:
    www.diggingfordutch.com
    Digging For Dutch @ IMDB.com


  • Scored and conducted the 13 piece horn arrangement for pop icon Ricky Martin's single "She Bangs," worked with producer Walter Afanasieff, songwriters Desmond Childs, Robi Rosa and Walter A.
    Ricky Martin - She Bangs Press Release Gig Magazine - "Deconstructing A Hit" (graphic)
    Gig Magazine - "Deconstructing A Hit" (text)

  • Concert and festival appearances on both coasts with Chicago blues greats Son Seals and Hubert Sumlin, vocalist Phoebe Snow, and Levon Helm.

  • Aspen Music Ensemble commissioned and premiered his 15 minute work "Club Soda (with a twist)" as part of his role as featured guest composer.
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