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I am currently a student in college and my hobby is transcribing and arranging music. I also love to play video games, downhill ski, hike, and play music of course. I play trombone in my school's orchestra. All arrangement work is done completely by me, and your support would be much appreciated.

I have played around in Sibelius for most of my life and joined band in 6th grade. Sometime in my freshman or sophomore year of High School, I began creating jazz band arrangements of video game music, such as Rainbow Road from Mario Kart Wii and Electroman Adventures. These arrangements weren't very good, but they kickstarted my passion for arranging.

 My first arrangement came in October of 2018: Maka Wuhu. I was in the marching band, and a meme among the trumpets was the Wii Sports theme. After a while, I was getting tired of it and decided to do make an arrangement of it for the full band, but instead it was the Wii Sports Resort theme. It, honestly, wasn't great, and I may return to it someday to fix it up with what I have learned since, but it was the first arrangement that I would consider "decent," and it was the first piece that was played by an an actual band: my high school band.

In the spring of 2019, I fell in love with the works of Ludwig van Beethoven, and found that I wanted to play some of his work in our band. Unfortunately, due to Beethoven's popularity and the fact that concert bands didn't exist in the early 1800s, most of his big works, when arranged for concert band, were aimed for a beginning musician. They were arranged for young students who probably said something along the lines of "These chorales are great and all, but when can we play that song that goes dun-dun-dun-duuuuuunnnnn?" After my experience with Maka Wuhu, I decided to find the sheet music on IMSLP and do an arrangement of the fourth movement of Beethoven's Fifth. I already knew that the first movement was the popular one, but I just thought that one was a bit overplayed. I planned for it to be a Spring Break project, but it lasted through summer. I eventually finished it and we did read it, and that's when my hobby really set sail.

Since then, I have largely spent my spare time arranging. Occasionally, I hit an edge case in Sibelius that makes the work infuriating, leaving me to spend my free time doing other things, but arranging is primarily what I've been doing. This site came about for one simple reason: my Economics class. I have been thinking about how I can publish my works without directly emailing links to band directors and hoping they pass them on, but I didn't devote much thought to it as I had other priorities at the time. However, as part of my senior year Economics class, I was assigned to make a business, and I thought that an online site to publish my music in a format much more visually appealing than a directory, so here we are.