Praised by audiences and critics alike for his signature improvisatory composition style fusing French Jazz, Emo-Punk and his classical symphonic training Little Man T has premiered his compositions in Norway, Vietnam, San Francisco, San Diego, Charleston and New Orleans. It was in New Orleans where, after freelancing as a jazz pianist and arranger for a year, he earned the moniker “Little Man T.”
Little Man T, who attended Northwestern University, studied piano performance and composition under the mentorship of Rachel Everist (Northwestern University) and Dr. Linda Pellymounter (University of Iowa). Upon completion of his studies, he traveled across the globe, honing his craft and experiencing the many nuances of cultures across the continent and abroad.
As an active collaborator in performance art, Little Man T has composed, written and produced several modern dance movements and theatrical pieces including Lesie Seiters’ “Hypothetically She Would Be Called”, “Pop!”, “Don’t Quit Your Day Job” and “Disregarding Sean”. In this medium, he has been honored to work with award winning directors and artists such as Scott Myers, Tim Irving, Michael Schwartz, Michael Anthony, Steve Austin, Leslie Seiters, Brian Doom, Andy Mingus, Steven Gatlin, Collin Monda, and the Danny Nguyen Dance.
Highly sought after in media and film composition, Little Man T has lent his talents to such film and art installation projects as “Beauty 24”, “The Artist”, “The Iconographer”, “Untitled: 305” and “Steve Gatlin: A Retrospective”. He has produced two albums of his compositions entitled “The Beauty Project” and “Mon Autre Moitié”, both of which have received critical acclaim.
Currently, Little Man T makes his home in San Francisco where he is putting the final touches on his third large body of work - “Elevator Music: For People Like Mark”, an eight movement piece for Violin, Viola, Cello, French Horn, Clarinet and Rhodes Keyboard with distortion pedal. Under commission, Little Man T is also hard at work on “The Other Bullet” a three-movement piece for the Velvet String Quartet inspired by the protest of Buddhist Monks in Lhasa. The piece will have its world premiere at a benefit concert in early February of 2009 in San Diego, CA.