Born in 1961 Brian took up music at the age of nine years initially inspired by the sounds and antics
of the actors he saw on a popular music television show of the time.

Starting out on guitar he went on to learn a wide variety of instruments including pedal steel guitar, trumpet, harmonica, bass guitar, alto, tenor, soprano and baritone saxophones, concert, alto and piccolo flutes and clarinet.

Today Brian sees himself primarily as a saxophonist with a continuing interest in the instrument of his childhood - the guitar.

His album "Sinatra, Sax & Swing" on the renowned New York music education label, Music Minus One, won 'Best Instrumental Album' at the 15th Annual SUNNIE RECORDING AWARDS, Australia's longest running non-sales based Music Industry Awards. Solo transcriptions from that album now form part of the official Saxophone Syllabus of the ANZCA (Australian and New Zealand Cultural Arts) music examinations and of the St-Cecilia School of Music.

Brian holds a Masters Degree in Music Technology from the University of Newcastle, Australia as well as a Licentiate in Performance (Hons) from the Australian Society of Musicology and Composition.

A frequent writer for a number of national music magazines, he was invited by the Royal College of Music, London to take part in trialing their new 'Jazz Horns' syllabus for saxophone released worldwide.