A Lifetime of Music
I started playing piano as a young child in the back room of my grandmother's house, where I learned to play by ear on an out-of-tune piano. You'll also find a 9-year-old version of me as a child singer on an obscure CD that teaches French through song.
Neil on Keys!
As a professional keyboardist, I play songs on the spot for improvised musicals, create live soundtracks for made up movies, and provide underscoring and music for a wide variety of improv shows in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Need music for an improv show?
I currently serve as the Musical Director at Fremont's Made Up Theatre, and I'm one of the few accompanists available for hire with experience playing improvised music for award-winning performers and world-renowned shows. Here are some of them...
HERE: Improvised Musical
This two-person improvised musical from Chicago has been entertaining audiences around the globe. They've been called "Nothing Short of Genius" by NPR and are one of the world's most lauded musical improv shows.
5 Play
The award-winning cast from Made Up Theatre performs a fully-improvised movie based on an audience-suggested title. "Incredibly talented and clever. The keyboard player was on his game as well!" –Yelp
Phasers on Stun
Boldly go where no audience has gone before. These improvised episodes of science fiction inspired by the original Star Trek series have been described as "Too good to be true! I must be on the holodeck!"
InTune: LinkedIn A Cappella
After graduating from college and saying goodbye to WPI's amazing a cappella group, I was left wanting more. I helped build LinkedIn's InTune a cappella group, which now performs alongside other big tech a cappella groups at the annual Techapella concert.
NextPlay: The LinkedIn Band
LinkedIn has an employee rock band, and they're pretty awesome. I joined the NextPlay band in 2016 and regularly perform with them in the loading dock that LinkedIn converted into a fully-fledged performance space. Here's a song from one of our shows...