Conducting Experience

Assistant Director North Shore New Horizons Band Winnetka, IL

September 2006 – July 2008

* Lead class for adults who are playing a band instrument for the first time as well assisting in the direction of a full band of more than 50 members

Co-Conductor Ravenswood Community Orchestra Chicago, IL

June 2006 –July 2008

* Presided over period of unprecedented growth including a three fold increase in orchestra membership as well as significant audience development

Assistant Director of Choirs Kenilworth Union Church Kenilworth, IL

June 2006 – July 2008

* Assisted in the conducting, teaching and preparation of two youth choirs and one adult choir

* Led choir in large works such as Beethoven Mass in C and Haydn “Lord Nelson Mass” with full orchestral accompaniment

* Served as Music Director for the Chamber Ensemble, an orchestra consisting of student instrumentalists

Music Director Green Bay Symphony Youth Orchestras Green Bay, WI

May 2001 -November 2003

* Responsible for the artistic direction of three orchestras

* Programmed, rehearsed and conducted two full orchestras

* Established a chamber music program

* Programmed and led two sold-out children’s concerts for 3600 area 4th graders

* Performance of the Youth symphony featured on Wisconsin Public Radio

Acting Assistant Conductor Peninsula Music Festival Fish Creek, WI August 2006 & 2007

Guest Conductor Skokie Valley Symphony Skokie, IL August 2006

Guest Conductor North Shore Chamber Orchestra Evanston, IL
June and November 2005, July 2007

Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra January 2005

Music Director Eau Claire Children’s Theater Production of West Side Story July 1999

Assistant Conductor Chippewa Valley Symphony Eau Claire, WI Spring 1999

 

 

Education

Doctor of Musical Arts -Conducting University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

September 2008

* Awarded Sample Fellowship in conducting

* Appointed Primary Instructor of the Campus Orchestra, an ensemble of 120 students who are primarily non-music majors

* Student of Mark Russell Smith, currently Music Director and conductor of the U of M Symphony Orchestra

* Appointed assistant conductor for University Opera productions

* Participant in the Wind Conducting seminar with Professor Craig Kirchoff

Master of Music -Orchestral Conducting Northwestern University

August 2006

* Conducted in weekly seminar taught by Victor Yampolsky

* Acted as sectional coach for the University Symphony and Chamber Orchestras

* Served as program annotator and host of all pre-concert talks for performances of the Northwestern University Symphony at the invitation of Victor Yampolsky

* Led the University Philharmonia Orchestra in a concert of opera excerpts

Bachelor of Music Education University of Wisconsin -Eau Claire

Teaching Experience

Lecturer Department of Theatre Arts Loyola University Chicago, IL

Spring 2007

* Auditioned, rehearsed and conducted a pit orchestra consisting of students and professionals for the university production of Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Cinderella

Instrumental Music Teacher Washington Middle School Green Bay, WI