Brian is a saxophone chameleon performing many different genres around the greater Seattle area for the better part of two decades but Jazz has been at the core of his study throughout.

A product of the high school jazz education in the Puget Sound region, Brian found his way to New York where he attended The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music later returning to Seattle to study at Cornish College of the Arts. He has been privileged to have many mentors, chief among them Dave Schnitter, Johannes Wallmann, Denney Goodhew, Hans Teuber, Julian Priester, Dawn Clement, Jovino Santos Neto, and Jim Knapp.

His time performing on the Seattle Music Scene has shaped his philosophy that quality music education is about personal connections with the players and the music and that a student's interests, supported by the technical elements needed to play their instrument, should be the guiding light.