is a performance artist specializing in classical and klezmer music, played on the xylophone (marimba) as a solo concert instrument. He studied the instrument with Gordon Stout, Leigh Stevens and John Beck, but his musical influences range from Segovia, to Gould, to David Friedman to the Klezmatics. He studied klezmer music with Giora Feidman and Alan Bern (Brave Old World's musical director).