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is currently a student of Music Education at Kean University in Union NJ. There he studies guitar with Christopher Kenniff and composition with Dr. Matthew Halper. He also attended the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. There he studied jazz performance with some of the world's most influential jazz artists, including the late Ted Dunbar, Kenny Barron, and Vic Juris. He has performed publicly since the age of 15, and appears regularly as a soloist and with his group, The Atmosferics. A composer, performer and educator, he has performed at venues such as the Stone Pony, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Studio 54, the Strand Theater, the Trump Taj Mahal the New York Renaissance Faire.