The son of two music teachers, I have been immersed in music, first violin, then piano, and finally trombone, since the age of 7. I fell in love with jazz, especially Dixieland, Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, through Miles Davis, JJ Johnson and beyond, when I was a teenager, but ultimately my main focus has been on Classical music for most of my career. I attended Juilliard Pre-College, Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School, where I studied with the top trombonists in the classical orchestral field, and I now perform with some of the top orchestras in New York City, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, America...

BMS has been teaching music for one hundred and nine years. As a World-Class Community Music school we have a diverse offering of instruments and vocal training. As a community music school we believe in bringing people together over music through private lessons, group classes, and then ensembles, bands and productions. We enjoy providing a quality and safe learning environment for our commuity/family!

I offer a fresh perspective on the role of the music teacher. I'm certainly here to help my students learn the fundamentals, but I believe in a why-first approach to lessons. If I can't clearly articulate the reason why we're doing something and the impact it will have on a student's progress or understanding, then we don't do it. Nothing is arbitrary, and every moment is useful. I try to make sense of things by observing the patterns and relationships at play in the world around me, and I often employ this approach in my curriculum. Whether we're discussing scales, chords, saxophone technique, vocal technique or songwriting—everything can be...

We value our students' desires to achieve their specific goals. Music education can merely be a hobby as students walk in. As they leave our weekly lessons, they start to open their minds on the endless possiblities of what they can do with music, from composition, performance or simply as an outlet. We enjoy the experience of watching our students move up in different levels. Our teachers get the satisfaction of teaching and seeing many of the students achieve goals they were not aware they could accomplish in a short amount of time....