Ian grew up playing the clarinet as his first instrument in primary and high school in concert, jazz, and marching bands. He has a BA in music composition from Reed College in Portland, OR where he studied theory, piano, and voice and wrote three original pieces for a jazz sextet. He studied jazz piano for a summer at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, MA. He has a Master's degree in music composition from Indiana University, South Bend. There he wrote original compositions in a variety of styles for solo piano, voice, viola, violin and cello, clarinet, a string quartet, choral works, and a fully symphonic piece. He sang with the South Bend Symphony and played clarinet with the Twin Cities Concert Band. Since then, he’s been working as a solo singer/songwriter as well as playing with bands and as a church musician. In total, he’s been playing keys and singing professionally for about twenty years.
While in Portland, Ian gigged professionally with a 15-piece funk band as a backup vocalist. He was a founding member of his own six-piece fusion group as a vocalist and keyboard player. Within the Michiana area, Ian has performed as a keyboardist with a four-piece rock/fusion group the Anival Fausto Band, aka the ‘Anarchist Funk Brothers, as lead singer and keyboardist with Ikaros, a six-piece Cumbia-Chicha Group, and with a Christian Prog-Rock band. He recently
played with the pit orchestra for the South Bend Civic Theatre. He currently serves as the music director for the First Unitarian Church of South Bend. Ian been playing professionally as a vocalist and keyboardist with Jewell and the Future for the last five years.
Ian has traveled extensively throughout North America, from Seattle to LA to Boston and New York City. He lived for a year in New Orleans both uptown and the 9th ward giving him a chance to explore the rich cultural and musical heritage of the Crescent City. He spent months traveling
solo from Antigua, Guatemala to Tijuana, Mexico. There he gained a deep love and appreciation for many types of people, a near-fluency in Spanish, and exposure to Latin music from mariachi to salsa to reggaeton. Ian has been working on a multitude of styles over the years to combine American roots Folk/Blues, Rock, Funk, Hip-hop, R&B, and Gospel music through the
lens of his Classical and Jazz background to create an intrinsic, personal style.
Quotes of Original Philosophy:
"Music is an endlessly giving force. The more you put into it the more you get out. Musicality is a healer and a teacher. Performing, our bests shines and our worst stays behind. At its most transcendent, music is a catharsis from ego to freedom.”
Quotes of Original Philosophy:
“We Americans, from Canada to Argentina, share much more in common than we might think: Between the Twelve notes and the ‘One, Two, Three, Four’ we speak a common language.”
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