• Born/raised in Edinburgh, UK

• Began playing trumpet, tenor horn, guitar and piano at elementary school

• Started on electric bass at 15

• Undergraduate (piano-based) degree at Edinburgh University's Reid School of Music. Studied harmony, counterpoint, analysis, orchestration, aesthetics, history and performance, majoring in composition under Nigel Osborne and Peter Nelson

• Postgraduate study (composition) at The Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (Koninklijk Conservatorium) under Gilius van Bergeijk

• Contributing Editor for Bass Player magazine 2009 to 2019 (transcriptions, interviews, style analyses, etc.)

• Monthly columnist, transcriptionist, interviewer and writer (in Japanese) for Japan’s Bass Magazine

• Contributing Editor for Bass Magazine

• Lives and works in Tokyo as a freelance musician/writer