Guitar, Piano, Ukulele, Electric Bass
Henry is a guitarist and singer-songwriter from Chicago. He specializes in classic singer-songwriter styles, jazz, Americana, blues, as well as classical and improvised music, but has also worked in music styles ranging from hip-hop to musical theatre.
As a recording artist, he’s shared the studio with C3ZR, Alicia “Yah Yah” Townsend, Wic Whitney, Abby Lyons, Eshé with Chromotherapy (ft Alicia Monique), and Umraan Syed, and many more, in styles ranging from jazz, blues, and neo-soul to country.
As a performer Henry has mainly played with local bands, theater ensembles, wedding bands, large cover bands, and local jazz groups featured on WGN, South Chicago Jazz Fest, St. Charles Jazz Fest, the Indiana State Fair, Metro Chicago, and many more.
Currently (2025), Henry plays guitar and keyboards in his Jazz-Funk Fusion group Vision Test but still loves to play old bluegrass heads and rock riffs in class.
Henry has also been an active educator in music programs across Chicago since 2015 when he got his music teaching job through the Chicago Park Districts in his late teens while still in college. Since then he’s served many public and private schools with group and private instruction for kids k-12. He has also taught music with the FORGE program under the direction of the Chicago Mayors office, serving Albany Park public schools offering group and one-on-one guitar classes.
As an educator and performer with a degree in Classical Guitar from NEIU (2020) and some jazz studies at Columbia College—as well as at the Berklee College of Music (5-Week Summer Performance Program 2015)—Henry works on finding the cross-section between jazz, folk, classical, and contemporary musical practices.
Through roughly 20+ odd years of music study, Henry had been lucky enough to study privately with musicians like Eric Lugosch (OTSFM, Winfield Finferstyle Guitar Champion), Brian Torosian (CSO), Felton Offard (Hamilton, Oprah), and Chris Forte(Buddy Guy, Mannheim Steamroller), Mayo Tiano(Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder), and has taken masterclasses with Jack Pezzanelli, Laurence Juber, Amanda Monaco, Oscar Ghiglia, and more.
As of 2025, Henry is endorsed by Born Guitars of Colorado, a boutique guitar company specializing in rare tone woods and expert craftsmanship.
Started at the Old Town School in December of 2021
