My mother, Nancy Homan, passed away in 1984. She was a painter, a jazz pianist and an amateur botanist. She was also my first and only piano teacher. I inherited the piano after her death, but years went by before I opened it up and found the courage to compose my own music for it.

The first pieces to emerge from my new relationship to the piano were the Five Nocturnes composed in 2020. Since then I have composed nearly thirty new works which I will be posting on this website during the coming months.

I hope you find solace and peace in the experience of listening to this music. Thank you so much for your time and attention!

This barred owl was hanging out in the front yard of our south Minneapolis home on March 28, 2025. I had never seen him before and never saw him again after that. Unfortunately, right around that time all of the sparrows disappeared from our entire block, I assume due to the bird flu. A few weeks later, Brooks and I moved to an apartment four blocks away and somehow the bird population over here seems to have been spared.