I am very active as a soloist and freelance percussionist in chamber, orchestral, jazz and world music settings. My collaborations with renowned international figures are numerous. I have performed with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project, clarinettist Paquito de Rivera, Korean traditional percussionist Dong-Won Kim, shakuhachi player Kojiro Umezaki, erhuist Yu Hongmei, and tabla players Prafulla Athalye, Sandeep Das and Abbas Janmohamed. My playing has been heard on national radio and television broadcasts. I appear in solo recitals regularly, which have included recitals for national CBC radio broadcasts, and I have performed as a soloist with many orchestras and ensembles.

I hold a doctoral degree from the University of Miami, having received formal training as a classical percussionist, but am equally comfortable playing jazz vibraphone. I am an experienced performer and scholar of Balinese gender wayang music, completing field research in Balinese music studying gender wayang with I Ketut Sukayana in Sukawati village, Bali. I am also an accomplished performer of Indian classical music, having performed Hindustani raga using a special marimba of my own design, accompanied by Mumbai based tabla player Shri Prafulla Athalye and touring with Canadian tabla player Zaheer-Abbas Janmohamed.

I have studied percussion with Ney Rosauro and Glenn Price, Balinese gender wayang with Brita Heimarck, marimba with Leigh Howard Stevens and She-e Wu and for many years developed my musicianship under the mentorship of Canadian pedagogue and violinist, Thomas Rolston. I currently teach ethnomusicology and percussion at the University of Calgary and have served on the faculty of the Banff Centre for the Arts.