CURRENT MISSION

To learn! Music, people, the world, life... there is a lot to learn about.

ABOUT ME

I am a 29-year-old freelance historical oboe player from Canada. I live in Montreal, have lived in Amsterdam, Ottawa, and Toronto, and love traveling, cooking and eating, learning and playing (oboe, cards, chess, etc).

Interests

I love to learn new things. I am easily distracted and get "into" things easily, so manage to have short love affairs with things like ancient Greek, zen Buddhism, ambitions of being a concert producer or conductor, translation, meme theory... often the fads last only a few weeks but I often can think of little else during the time. My most consistent love is playing the oboe, and particularly playing 18-century music on period oboes. If you don't know, ask!

• concerts
• cooking
• chess
• traveling
• music
• buddhist
• freelancing

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

New Year's Eve on a bridge over the Amstel river in Amsterdam. The whole city explodes for an hour with fireworks going off in gardens and yards, in the street, on the canals, from city roofs.
The noon bells of Salzburg's amazing cathedrals, heard from atop the Mönchsberg.
A meteor shower viewed from a lake campground in Northern Ontario on a piercingly clear night in August.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Italy, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Netherlands