Born in The Netherlands in 1957, I moved to the USA in 1982, and have been employed as an airline pilot with Continental Airlines since 1986.

I love music, to listen to it, and to share it with others. I have been doing so for many years, first as a radio DJ, at WNTI in Hacketstown NJ, and then a stint at WDIY in Bethlehem, PA.

Many know the urge to participate, dancing and singing at concerts, drumming on bar stools. For me it did not stop there. The first karaoke performances were frightful, both for me and the audience, but it got better. I started playing congas and miscellaneous percussion at open mike nights.

Then, in 2001, the writing began. Thirty year old piano lessons gone from mind, but not from fingers. Then solo performances at open mike nights, and then my first self titled recording, Oscar. Listening songs, piano based, with organ, base, congas and an occasional string orchestra, with rich vocal harmonies. All done with a Korg N-1, conga's, a mike and a Roland-840EX digital multitrack recorder. No drum machines, no MIDI.
Songs about a guy who drinks a little, gets in trouble, straightens out his act, spends the night on an airplane coast to coast, finds the love of his life and loses a friend to an untimely self-inflicted demise, not necessarily in that order.            

Recently I joined up with a few friends and formed a cover band: “Elementary Penguin”

Music allows people to communicate across barriers insurmountable by any other means. It is the big equalizer. I hope you get something out of my music, that it may lighten your step, if only for a moment.