I have lived many places in the United States, including New York, Nevada, Arizona, Florida, and California. I began piano lessons at the age of six, in addition to playing by ear and improvising. At the age of thirteen I began the clarinet as well, and played in my eighth and ninth grade orchestras. Throughout high school I took piano lessons up again sporadically and continued to practice and write songs. In the beginning of my college years at the University of South Florida, I began to learn acoustic guitar. In my Junior year I started taking music courses exclusively in pursuit of a B.M. in composition. These courses included two years of training in analog and digital music technologies. During that time I also studied piano with Robert Helps, and explored Jazz and improvisation independently. Some of the teachers I have studied with are Hilton Jones, Ladislav Kubik, David Conte, Conrad Susa, and David Noon. Following my undergraduate education, I attended the San Francisco Conservatory in pursuit of a Master's degree. During that time, I performed a piano recital of selected works by Alexander Scriabin, illustrating his stylistic transformation. At that school, I advocated the importance of musical improvisation, and helped in keeping the one class offered from being eliminated from the curriculum. I served as student representative of the composition department from 1992-93 on the Student Advisory Council. I created and led a Composer's Forum at that school which offered a weekly meeting place for composition students, and culminated with a petitioned credit change in the Composition program. Additionally, I spoke at a budget retreat in conjunction with the President and Board of Directors. While living in San Francisco, I taught piano and theory privately, transcribed and arranged many different styles of music for many different people, and played piano in clubs and restaurants. After receiving an M.M. in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory in 1993, I continued to the Manhattan School of Music where I began working towards a D.M.A. in composition. In addition to history and theory, I spent a year studying Non-Western music and writing for theatre. I began the creative service "Martineau Arts" in 1995, serving other creative professionals. I received my Doctorate from M.S.M. in 1997.

Additional interests: Sacred Geometry, G.I. Gurdjieff, Hermetics, Mysticism, William Blake, Joseph Campbell, Alchemy, C.G. Jung, Integral Theory, Eckhart Tolle, Chaos and Complexity Theory, Buckminster Fuller, Madame Blavatsky, Buddhism, Taoism, Quantum Physics, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Eschatology, Soteriology, Jean Cocteau, regular and irregular polyhedra, Speculative Music, Hieronymous Bosch, Luigi Serafini, Mircea Eliade, Julian Jaynes, Rupert Sheldrake, Morphogenetic fields, Jerry Uelsmann, Ken Wilber, Aldous Huxley, M.C. Escher, Victor Vasarely, Mythology, World Music, Gustav Doré, Paul Klee, Michael Parkes, Wassily Kandinsky, Ralph Bakshi, Donald Judd, Harold Budd, Robert Fludd, Damien Hirst, Michael Joaquin Grey, Alex Grey, Antonio Carlos Jobim, E.E.Cummings, Prince, Philip Glass, Olivier Messiaen, Brian Eno, João Gilberto, Richie Beirach, Claude Debussy, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Keith Jarrett, John Surman, Rodney Kendrick, Leonard Cohen, Alban Berg, Daniel Lentz, Erik Satie, Darius Milhaud, Guillaume de Machaut, Igor Stravinsky, Kraftwerk, T.S. Eliot, Joachim Kühn, Pharoah Sanders, Dietrich Buxtehude, Franz Liszt, Miles Davis, Maurice Ravel, Alexander Scriabin, Enrico Pieranunzi, Roger Waters, Trent Reznor, Joy Division, Woody Allen, Ovid, Mel Brooks, Aydin Esen, Frank Bridge, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Norma Winstone, Omar Khayyam, Hildegard von Bingen, Colin McPhee, Medeski Martin and Wood, Bill Evans, Lennie Tristano, Carl Stalling, Johannes Ockeghem, Louis Andriessen, Guillaume Dufay, Billie Holiday, Betty Carter, Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler, Michael Formanek, J.S. Bach, Dead Can Dance, Massive Attack, Revolting Cocks, Peter Gabriel, Nickel Creek, Brad Mehldau, Kurt Elling, Talk Talk, The Art of Noise, Thelonious Monk, U2, Lauryn Hill, Donny Hathaway, Chet Baker, Jane Monheit, Patricia Barber, Rufus Wainright, Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Hélène Grimaud, George Gershwin, Arthur Schopenhauer, Vernon Howard, Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi, Ludwig van Beethoven, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, James Brown, Dmitri Shostakovich, Herbie Hancock, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Cecil Taylor, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Arto Lindsay, Joscelyn Godwin, Colin Wilson, Robert A. Johnson...