Highlights:

    - Professional musician and singer since 1979
    - Co-Founder, Executive Director, Music   That Heals 1997
    - Founder and Administrator of the Wood-Whack Corporation 1991
    - Two patents received from the U.S. Patent Office one for a Percussion Implement (Wood-Whack drumsticks); another for a Drum Practice Pad.

Experience:  1984 - Present

    - Have provided, privately and through agencies such as Hospital Audiences, Inc., NYC, professional musical performances  to clients in hospitals, nursing homes, addiction and recovery programs, AIDS and cancer care facilities, psychiatric hospitals, children's hospitals, homeless shelters, shelters for battered women, substance-abuse recovery facilities, physical and psychiatric rehabilitation centers, patients living with Alzheimer's disease, and physically challenged patients.

    - In 1998, with music partner Susan Weber, co-founded Music That Heals, a project designed in collaboration with Hospital Audiences, Inc. for the purpose of bringing live musical performances to seriously ill children.

Singer/Songwriter, Recording Artist and Musician 1979 - Present

    - Lord and Weber
    Musical Partnership 1985 - Present

    - Have worked in a musical partnership since 1985 providing musical performances in the United States and internationally as Lord and Weber. International performances in Switzerland, Sweden, Finland. Numerous performances for corporations, private parties, museums, U.S. Army, Navy, and Coast Guard, concerts for NYC Parks Department, as well as opening act performances. Also cruise ship, hotel and country club performances.

    - Employed by International vocal artist Nana Mouskouri 1995 For Artist and Repertoire work on the "Return to Love" Album

    - Published songwriter 1980

Education:

    - School of Visual Arts - New York City 1976-77
    Photography Major

    - Brooklyn College - Brooklyn, NY 1975
    Liberal Arts Program

Independent Study:

    - Private study of voice from 1979 to the present
    - Private study of piano, guitar and drums
    - Private study of speech

Other:

    - Race Director for Music That Heals 5K Road Race 1997 - Present

    - Events planner for Music That Heals 1997 - Present

    - Part-time administrator for Music That Heals
      - Program scheduling
      - Program accounting
      - Facility contacting
      - Newsletter (writing and mailing)

Patent:

    - Percussion Implement - Patent Number: 6,002,077

Patent:

    - Drum Practice Pad - Patent Number: 6,284,959 B1
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