Brian has won numerous performance competitions along his musical journey such as multiple first-place Jazz pianist awards at the Akron Jazz Fest, the Capital University Jazz Fest, the Findlay Jazz Fest, and the Lakeland Jazz Fest, as well as entry into the prestigious high school and collegiate OMEA All-State Jazz Bands.

He also has performed classical pieces with the Blue Ash Symphony and the Little Miami Symphony.

In 2005, Brian earned his bachelors of music degree in Jazz piano performance and composition from the renowned University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). And, after years of playing gigs as a working musician, was welcomed as an adjunct faculty member at Xavier University where he teaches and mentors college-level musicians.

In his spare time, Brian instructs students at the Cincinnati Music Academy.

Outside of teaching music, Brian plays the keyboard in many different bands around Cincinnati, which has allowed him the opportunity to tour the nation and the world playing the music he loves for countless fans. The musical projects he is involved with includes: Old Green Eyes & BBG, Kelsey Mira, Tropicoso, Just Strange Brothers, The Philip Myers Band, BBG & Company, and, of course, Eclipse Movement, a groundbreaking Cincinnati-based Hip-Hop/Jazz/Funk/Rock group who have won multiple Cincinnati Entertainment Awards that Brian co-founded in 2005, as well as helping to write and produce many of the band’s hit songs.

Brian is also a producer and electronic music composer with Mission Control Records. He has co-produced seven albums to date covering Eclipse Movement – Eclipse, Jahson – The Battle Within, Subterrain – Subterrain, Mood – Live Again, BBG & Company – Live at the Blue Wisp, and CityBeat magazine’s award for best album of 2011, Eclipse Movement’s second-studio release, Around the World. His most recent release was Eclipse Movement’s third album, Blind.

Brian has performed with a wide variety of well-known musicians throughout his career such as Othello Molineaux (Jaco Pastorious), Bobby Kimball (Toto), Alex Ligertwood (Santana/Jeff Beck/Brian Auger), Kim Wilson (Fabulous Thuderbirds), and Jim Keller (Tommy Tutone).

He even filmed a TV pilot once with former Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Dhani Jones for a talk show project called, “In the Zone with Dhani Jones.”