I play base with the Verona Area Community Orchestra. I used to play in the Anne Arundel Community College Orchestra, and before that the Madison Community Orchestra. Before starting college I used to play in high school jazz and orchestra ensembles as well as the Wasatch Community Orchestra and Murray Symphony. These two orchestras were both volunteer run orchestras.
My wife Gwen Miller Seal is a violist and strings teacher, who was recently a faculty member at the Levine School of Music. She has played with some area orchestras in Wisconsin, Michigan, Tennessee and elsewhere, including the Madison Symphony Orchestra (not to be confused with 'Community') as well as the indie rock band Pale Young Gentlemen. She's also an excellent barista.
One time, in a land far far away, in a little place known as Salt Lake City, UT, I was in a band. I played music with this band. The instrumentation for songs 1,3,4 are original. The lyrics for Fallen were borrowed from Karl Denson's Tiny Universe. The Harder they Come is a standard reggae song, and we put our own twist on it. The bass parts were written and played by a younger version of myself.
This is a recent photo from our October concert with VACO
I like to cook. I kind of miss our old stove from our first place we lived in in graduate school. Check out the double oven!
This is an old undated photo circa 2007 after I had recently moved to Madison.
It pays to be on time!
A lot of math happens here
Madison Community Orchestra at our 2008 Holiday concert at the capital.