Welcome to my personal website. Here I outline the core research interests, educational perspectives, and musical experiences developed through my journey across diverse cultures in the world. 
   
My research work examines how musicians transmit and embody musical knowledge within various socio-cultural settings and learning ecologies in Afro-Atlantic traditions. On this backdrop, I enquire how musicians develop expertise through landscapes of practice – with a special focus on Cuban musical and dance-bound practices – as a model for understanding the complementarity between informal practices in African-diasporic traditions and formal Western-art music training.
   
Working at the intersection of ethnomusicology, music cognition, and education, I draw on situated learning, 4E cognitive science, and phenomenology  to examine the interplay between musical practices, movement-rich cultures, and learning as enacted within the embodied, phenomenological life-world of musicians.  In turn, I am stimulated by how these disciplinary lenses can be significantly informed by musical practices and the dynamic coupling they enact. 

As a musician, my development was shaped first by the technical and stylistic affordances of the classical (nylon-strung), acoustic (steel-strung), and electric guitar, and later by the demands of session work. Together, these led to a musical interest that spans US–American, Brazilian, and Cuban music, contemporary acoustic guitar, and the classical guitar repertoire. These musical genres guided me towards a versatile approach to guitar playing and a global perspective on musical cultures. 

They instilled stylistic responsiveness that granted me sustained professional access to a wide range of musical contexts internationally. These included orchestral production shows, sideman work, jazz ensembles, and dance sets. 

In turn, this performance experience – coupled with my studies in music education – has informed my instrumental teaching, which I apply in community settings. Parallel to this, I am oriented towards higher education, where I aim to share my knowledge and insights through lectures, seminars, and workshops. 

I hope this is a place where you can find information, music, and experiences that speak to your interests or inspire new reflections.