Born in Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C., it was always clear from a very early age that Brian would be a performer. As soon as he could talk, his family quickly learned that the “quiet game” was Brian’s least favorite game. Brian always had a knack for acting. When he was only three years old, his family took him to a carnival. While in line for the swings, his father put him down, and Brian quickly cut to the front of the line. To his parent’s horror, Brian was being picked up by the man who ran the ride, and being placed into the swing. Brian managed to convince the carnival worker both
that he didn’t need a ticket to get on the ride and that he was old enough to ride.

Always motivated by the desire to perform, Brian’s dreams extended beyond the carnival swings.
He wanted to be in a parade. With some research and with his parents help, Brian found The Supercycles, Northern Virginia’s first unicycling show troupe. Brian figured a unicycle was his ticket
to a parade. Brian was five years old at the time, and wouldn’t accept the fact that you had to be six to join the troupe, so his parents lied. Within a month, Brian appeared in his first parade. For the next two years, Brian remained a member of The Supercycles, appearing with the troupe in parades all over the east coast.

For most kids, a visit to the Halloween store was a once a year event. For Brian it was the ongoing search for the perfect costume. It was only a matter of time before he would begin performing. Following in the steps of his sister, nine-year old Brian thought that he needed a voice teacher when his sister started studying with one in middle school. The voice teacher took Brian on as a student because she knew he loved to perform, and she feared that he would do more damage to his voice if he didn’t have someone to teach him good habits at an early age. While studying with his first voice teacher, Brian joined the local children’s theatre and got be a part of his first full length musical.

Brian’s elementary school music teacher had also taken a great interest in his quest to become a performer. She informed Brian and his parents of a summer camp for kids with The Washington Opera. Brian auditioned and was accepted into his first summer with The Washington Opera. The camp was a four-week rehearsal and learning process for kids ages 10-14 in which they were taught about many different aspects of opera, while rehearsing their own 30-minute, fully staged, children’s opera. Attending the camp then led to Brian being asked to audition to be in the children’s chorus for the season at The Washington Opera. Brian was accepted into the children’s chorus and appeared in several operas with The Washington Opera. Brian made his professional stage debut on the Opera House stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He appeared under the direction of acclaimed director, Frank Corsaro, and under the batons of Heinz Fricke, Eugene Kohn and Plácido Domingo and alongside such legendary singers as Galina Gorchakova, José Cura, Sergei Leiferkus, Veronica Villarroel, Justino Diaz, Elizabeth Bishop, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Matti Salminen, Karen Huffstodt and Plácido Domingo. Brian got a taste for what it could be like for people who do this as a living, and he never looked back.

Brian continued performing in numerous community theatres around the Washington, D.C. area, never taking his sights off of New York City. In 2006, Brian made the move to New York City to attend New York University. There he has been pursuing his life long dream.