In 1977, when I was three years old, my parents took me and my brother to see “Star Wars” in the theater. Apparently, I left the theater singing the main theme note for note. I don’t remember that. But I do remember wanting, more than anything, to be Luke Skywalker. So I started acting.

I was an actor for most of my childhood and through high school (Northside High School of Performing Arts in Atlanta, GA). When I started college at the University of Georgia, as an art major, I intended to continue acting. But then I found music. I began by playing keyboards for a band called Green Eggs and Ham. The band experience didn’t last long, but through that experience I realized that writing music was what I had to do. Not long after that realization, I discovered film music, and I was done.

I studied everything that I could find about the art of film scoring - books, magazines, web articles - and, of course, I spent hours watching movies, listening to the music , and trying to understand every aspect of that relationship.

After taking some time off of school, I returned with a new goal - become a film composer. I transferred from UGA to Georgia State Universty to study Music Composition and Film Production. While in school, I took all of the music theory, composition and orchestration classes that I could, as well as film theory and production, and I scored several student films, including my own. When I graduated, I moved to Los Angeles and started taking classes in the UCLA Film Scoring program. And I began to get work as a professional film composer.

While still in the Film Scoring program, I also started working for legendary orchestrator Steven Scott Smalley as his technical (and occasionally musical) assistant – a relationship that lasted several years, and allowed me to experience both the scoring process and the handling of the orchestra.

I have had the good fortune to work on short films, feature films, documentaries, television, and, most recently, video games, with an amazingly diverse and talented group of filmmakers, producers and musicians.