Like many, I started on the piano when I was eight years old. I briefly played the clarinet in high school school and the guitar in college. As an adult, I noodled with the accordion and the upright bass.

After 10 years on the Island of Hawai'i, I moved to O'ahu in 2001, and met percussionists who played North African rhythms using frame drums, the darbuka and hand percussion instruments.

In 2005, I was introduced to the PanART Hang, and in 2006, the harp came into my life one cold night in December around a bonfire on O’ahu. These two instruments are my primary musical tools.

The harps I play now include: a Dusty Strings (Seattle) 34 string lever harp; a 26 string Jessie Nightingale lever harp by Jeff Lewis of Lewis Creek Harps (Chelsea, Michigan); and a 22-string double-strung (actually 44!) lever harp built by Gary Stone with Stoney End, of Red Wing, Minnesota.

I also play the concert pedal harp - a Lyon and Healy 40 string Chicago Petite model.

My handpans include the Halo (Limoncello) built by Pantheon Steel, Farmington, Missouri; an E Major Sabye, by Meridian Handpans in the UK, and the instrument that started it all, a D minor Hang by PanART in Switzerland.

I took up formal harp studies in 2008. I attended many harp master classes, workshops and private instruction with world class musicians that I have summarized here.