Influences and inspirations

Musical influences:

Renaissance Polyphony
Classical Music
Film and Television Scores
1970s Folk and Easy Listening
Slowcore

In further detail:

Renaissance Polyphony refers to choral works by composers such as Josquin des Prez, Costanzo Festa, Thomas Tallis, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Orlande de Lassus, William Byrd, Tomas Luis de Victoria, etc.

Classical Music favorites include Johann Sebastian Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude, Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, John Dowland, Alfonso Ferrabosco, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Jakob Froberger, Orlando Gibbons, John Jenkins, William Lawes, Matthew Locke, Federico Mompou, Henry Purcell, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Erik Satie, Howard Skempton, Igor Stravinsky and Christopher Tye

Some favorite Film and Television Score composers are: Ennio Morricone, Bernard Herrmann, John Barry, Henry Mancini, Michel Legrand, Jerry Goldsmith, Lalo Schifrin, Earle Hagen, Billy Goldenberg, Les Baxter, Philippe Sarde, Nora Orlandi and Angelo Badalamenti

1970s Folk and Easy Listening favorites include: The Carpenters, Anne Murray, Roberta Flack, John Denver, Nick Drake, Bridget St John, Sibylle Baier, Linda Perhacs, Judee Sill and Vashti Bunyan

Slowcore favorite bands are Codeine and Low

Other miscellaneous admired artists/bands:
Broadcast, Stereolab, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Leonard Cohen, Joy Division, David Axelrod, Nico, Landing, The Innocence Mission

Favorite album of all time: Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972)