Besides playing the piano, Kevin has also worked in the education program of the San Francisco Symphony, served as the Education Director for the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, speaks French and German, and holds a Master's degree in education.  He also taught music for many years in several Bay Area school districts.

 

Born in South Lake Tahoe where his father worked as a musician at Harrah's for twenty five years, he has since lived in Davis, Boston, Vienna, Paris, a small town in Austria named Mattersburg, Napa, Petaluma, and moved to San Francisco in 1999. His mother sang choral music professionally, and founded the Tahoe Community Choir.

 

He attended UC Davis, intending to major in Political Science and minor in Japanese language, and graduated an English major speaking fluent French and German. He later demonstrated his famous financial genius, and borrowed excessive amounts of money to earn a Master’s degree in education at Sonoma State while further studying jazz piano.

 

His parents are both professional musicians who worked for or performed with Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Sarah Vaughn, Billy Eckstine, Glenn Campell, Hoagy Carmichael, Woody Herman, the Gregg Smith Singers, Bob Florence, Harry James, Stan Getz, and Buddy Rich.  Both parents have ancestors who were professional musicians as well: one great-great-grandfather played in Napoleon's army; and a great-grandfather was in the John Phillip Sousa Band.



Kevin lives with his carnivorous plants and magic books in San Francisco, annually rejects nominations for the A.D.D. Poster-Adult-of-the-Year, and is a tad shocked to find himself regularly exercising.