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Current Appointments


Music Director/Conductor Neponset Valley Philharmonic Orchestra 2007-present
Conductor Emeritus Parkway Concert Orchestra 2005-present
Guest Conductor Aspen Music Festival 2001-present
Conductor Old South Brass Ensemble 1995-present

Previous Appointments


Guest Conductor International Festival-Institute at Round Top (TX) 2005-2010
Guest Conductor Performing Arts Institute 2009
Director of Orchestras Usdan Center for the Performing Arts (NY) 2006-2009
Music Director/Conductor Metropolitan Wind Symphony 2003-2006
Music Director/Conductor Parkway Concert Orchestra 2002-2005
Associate Conductor Metrowest Symphony Orchestra 2001-2003
Music Director/Conductor Southeastern Massachussetts Community Concert Band 1999-2003
Conductor Barrington Pops Orchestra (RI) 1999-2002
Music Director/Conductor All Newton Music School Chamber Orchestra 1998-2002
Founder/Conductor IAP Symphony Orchestra at MIT 1995-1998

Guest Conducting


Guest Conductor Longwood Symphony Orchestra (MA) 2011
Guest Conductor Oregon Symphony Orchestra (OR) 2005
Guest Conductor Eastern Music Festival (NC) 2005
Guest Conductor Fall River Symphony 2003

Festivals


Conductor HMEA Music Festival Symphonic Band (NY) 2010
Conductor SCMEA Division III West Orchestra (NY) 2009
Conductor Northeastern Senior District Orchestra 2006
Conductor Southeastern Junior District Orchestra 2004

Recordings


Conductor Metropolitan Wind Symphony - Little Buckaroos 2005
Conductor Old South Brass - Heroic Sounds 2001

Instrumental Experience (1978-1999)


Distinguished trombonist, teacher and coach. Retired from trombone performance in 1999. Employed by the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Grant Park Symphony, Chicago Symphony and the Empire Brass Quintet. Employed as a professor at numerous prestigious universities including MIT, Tufts University, Boston Conservatory of Music, Boston University, New England Conservatory and the University of New Hampshire. Performed in all musical mediums including Television, Radio, Commercials, and Recordings. Traveled extensively for concerts to Europe, Japan, Canada, and most of the United States.

Education


Degree
Northwestern University Bachelor of Music (with honors) 1984
 
Principal Conducting Teachers
David Zinman Tonhalle Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony 2000
Muray Sidlin Oregon Symphony 2000
James Orent Boston Pops, Exxon Fellow 1995-1998
 
Extended Seminars, masterclasses and additional study
Programming for Pops Programming for Pops - ASOL conference 2003
National Conducting Institute Auditor - National Symphony Orchestra 2002
Conductor's Guild Seminar Participant - Puerto Rico Symphony 2002
Solfege and Harmony Judy Ross, Longy School of Music 2001-2003
Movement Joe Gifford, retired Boston University 2001-2003
ASOL Workshop Auditor - Miami, FL 2001
Amer. Acad. of Cond. Aspen, CO 2000
ASOL Workshop Participant - Boston, MA 1997
Conductors' Institute Univ. of Hartford -summer 1994
Tanglewood Cond. Sem. Auditor - summer 1993
     
Workshop Conducting Teachers  
Leonard Slatkin    
Harold Farberman    
Jorma Panula    
Michael Tilson Thomas    
Larry Rachleff    
Christopher Wilkins    
Daniel Lewis    
Simon Rattle

Competition Judging


MICCA Festival (Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association) 2006
Pappoutsakis competition finals (Flute) 2002

Hobbies


Cycling, Hiking, Cooking, and Travel

Membership


American Federation of Musicians
League of American Orchestras
Conductor's Guild


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