I play (or have played) heaps of different instruments including saxophone, singing, guitar, drums, viola as well of course as violin, keyboard and piano which I teach.  I have extremely varied taste in muisc.  I love most 70's & 80's music especially classic rock & the old style metal bands (Led Zepplin, Metalica, Hendrix, Doors, Clapton, etc).  At the other end of the scale I like a lot of female vocalists - Celine Dion, Melisa Ethridge, Marianne Faithful, Janis Jopplin, The Corrs, Pat Benitar and Berlin are some of my favourites.  I guess my all time favourite band is probably Pink Floyd but I don't listen to them much these days. This website has really helped me keep in touch with new music, as people ask me for sheet music songs that I haven't heard of, giving me a chance to search them out and listen to them.  In this way I've come to like Coldplay, Nickelback, Faith Hill, Norah Jones, Evanescence and heaps more.  Mostly I just love arranging songs to suit my students ability level, easy versions of the latest songs for all the different age groups are really hard to find.

 

As well as music I love cooking (well actually I probably just love eating especially Thai, Indian and pizza).  I love wine especially bubbly and sweet dessert wines.  I spend most of my time on the net (buying stuff on Trademe & Ebay) and far too much time watching TV (mainly the History channel & Crime dramas).  So I think the aim for the New Year might have to bo having friends over for dinner and/or cocktails more often, and generally getting out of the house!  My home really is my castle and like most Kiwis a large part of my time, energy & finances has been poured into lovingly ripping it to pieces and trying to put it back together! (Apparently DIY is a real epidemic in this part of the world).

 

I have an amazing family - My Mum and Dad truly are my role models and live here in Tauranga.  My little sister Rose is an Architect and has just got married to Jono (Also an Architect) who so far really is the perfect bfother-in-law, couldn't have found better if I had picked him myself!  Then of course there is my dog Sharkie who is my best little friend and my cat Splodge (not quite emotionally stable - wants affection but only knows how to ask for it by biting or whacking me as I walk past).