CURRENT POSITIONS

Scruffy City Orchestra, music director
Orchestra at Maryville College, conductor / adjunct professor
Pilot Company, trade control analyst

Knoxville, TN
Maryville, TN
Knoxville, TN

 

GUEST CONDUCTOR

Opera Grand Rapids (2019)
The Mikado
Victory Hall Opera (2018)
Hansel and Gretel, The Medium
Marble City Opera (2017, 2016, 2015)
     Amahl and the Night VisitorsLa Divina, Gallantry
Opera in the Ozarks (2016, 2015, 2011)
     Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, La Cenerentola, La traviata,
     Pagliacci, Il tabarro

Summerville Orchestra
Festival Alfonso Ortiz Tirado
     Illegal Alien
Sierra Vista Symphony Orchestra
Civic Orchestra of Tucson (2013, 2012)
Fourth International Symposium on Latin American Music

Grand Rapids, MI

Charlottesville, VA

Knoxville, TN

Eureka Springs, AR


Summerville, SC
Àlamos, México

Sierra Vista, AZ
Tucson, AZ
Tucson, AZ

 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

First Cumberland Presbyterian, 2015-22, music director
WUOT 91.9 FM, 2018-21, Afternoon Concert producer & host
Pellissippi State Community College, Fall 2019, adjunct instructor
Sarasota Opera, 2018 winter festival, cover conductor
Pellissippi State Community College, Fall 2017, adjunct instructor
Lincoln Memorial University, Fall 2017, adjunct conductor
University of Arizona Symphony and Philharmonic, conductor, GTA, manager, librarian
Lamont Symphony, conductor, GTA, manager, librarian
Denver Philharmonic, substitute conductor

Knoxville, TN
Knoxville, TN
Knoxville, TN
Sarasota, FL
Knoxville, TN
Harrogate, TN
Tucson, AZ
Denver, CO

Denver, CO

 

EDUCATION

Courses in Supply Chain Management
D.M.A., Conducting
A.D., Conducting
Double M.M., Conducting/Voice
M.M., Opera
Postgraduate study, Voice
B.M., Voice

University of Tennessee
University of Arizona
University of Denver
University of Denver
Royal Conservatoire
CEMSD
CSU

Knoxville, TN
Tucson, AZ
Denver, CO
Denver, CO
Glasgow, Scotland
Toulouse, France
Sacramento, CA

 

COMPETITIONS

2nd Place- The American Prize in Conducting—community opera division, 2017-18
Finalist - Concorso Internazionale Per Direttori d'Opera "Luigi Mancinelli" - Orvieto, Italy

 

MASTER CLASSES/WORKSHOPS

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Adrian Gnam, Robert Gutter, Peter Oundjian, Larry Rachleff

 

STAGE DIRECTORS

Lee Blakeley, Linda Brand, Mark Freiman, JJ Hudson, James Marvel, Eve Summer, Stephanie Sundine, Robert Swedberg, David Ward

 

CREATIVE ACTIVITY

vlog: French Diction For Singers

 

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Production Stage Manager -  Orchestra Manager - Stage Director - Music Librarian

 

OTHER SKILLS and EXPERIENCE

Lyric and dramatic stage experience - Computer literate - Fifteen years living in Europe

 

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

French (fluent) - Italian (intermediate) - German (basic)

 

A list of references is available upon request.