Brian is a musician, teacher, and producer from Tampa, Florida. Coming from a musical family, he took up trumpet at 10 years old playing in the school band. In the following years, he started teaching himself guitar. Being left-handed, his first experiences with the instrument were spent picking up his dad’s guitar and playing upside-down. This unusual style of playing has stuck with him to this day giving him a unique perspective on the instrument: “Learning the guitar upside-down taught me early on that there is no right or wrong way to play music because every note I played was, on a technical level, wrong”.  

 In college, Brian’s musical journey started to take shape: “I had decided music would be my path and I wanted to learn everything I could about it”. He enrolled in the music program at Hillsborough Community College as a trumpet major with piano as a secondary instrument. He performed in just about every ensemble he could including Fanfare Concert Winds, HCC Jazz Band, Percussion Ensemble, as well as several ensembles from other colleges, the Herd Of Thunder marching band at USF and the Wind Ensemble at UT.   

Around the same time he was in college, he started teaching music lessons at a local music school. He would teach guitar, piano, trumpet, bass, and ukulele lessons to students of all ages and abilities. There, he developed the ability to meet people where they are on their instrument and make complicated concepts easy to understand.

Now, Brian has almost 10 years of experience teaching lessons and continues to teach up to 60 students a week both in-person and online. He is also the Contemporary Music Director at a local church where he leads a band that plays every Sunday. Having developed a love for music production, he also has a home studio where he spends hours practicing and recording for himself and others. Brian is a student of music who continues to take lessons himself to hone his craft. He loves to share that knowledge with his students and will continue to do so for years to come.