Education

DEGREES

Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting (Orchestral)

Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan)

Primary Instructors: Leon Gregorian and Raphael Jiménez

 

Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting

Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, Ohio)

Primary Instructor: Emily Freeman Brown

 

Bachelor of Music in Bassoon Performance (magna cum laude)

Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona)

Primary Instructor: Jeffrey Lyman

 

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

Fellowship Conductor, Smoky Mountain International Conducting Workshop and Competition

Faculty: Dwight Oltman

SMICI Orchestra (Waynesville, North Carolina)

 

Fort Wayne Philharmonic and Conductors Guild International Conductor Workshop

Faculty: Ennio Nicotra, Andrew Constantine

Fort Wayne Philharmonic (Fort Wayne, Indiana)

 

London Classical Soloists Conducting Masterclass and Competition

Faculty: Achim Holub

London Classical Soloists (London, United Kingdom)

 

Conductors Guild Conductor Training Workshop: Conducting Concerti

Faculty: David Itkin

University of North Texas (Denton, Texas)

 

Conductors Guild Conductor Training Workshop

Faculty: Victor Yampolsky, Steven Smith, Erin Freeman

Richmond Symphony Orchestra (Richmond, Virginia)

 

Baltimore Chamber Orchestra Conducting Workshop

Faculty: Markand Thakar

Baltimore Chamber Orchestra (Towson, Maryland)

 

Conductors Guild Conductor Training Workshop

Faculty: Jorge Mester, Wes Kenney, Michael Griffith

Colorado State University (Ft. Collins, Colorado)

                                    

Conducting Mozart Opera: Così fan tutte

Faculty: Arthur Fagen, Mark Gibson

University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (Cincinnati, Ohio)

 

Conductors’ Course

Faculty: George Hurst, Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Denise Ham, Robert Houlihan

Canford Summer School of Music (Sherborne, England)

 

Rose City International Conductor’s Workshop

Faculty: Kenneth Woods, Christopher Zimmerman, David Hoose

Rose City Chamber Orchestra (Portland, Oregon)

 

Advanced Conducting Workshop After Ilya Musin

Faculty: Peter Gribanov, Leonid Korchmar, Adrian Gnam, Oleg Proskurnya

St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society “Congress” Orchestra (St. Petersburg, Russia)

 

12th Annual International Workshop for Conductors

Faculty: Kirk Trevor, Tsung Yeh, Johannes Schlaefli, Mariusz Smolij

Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic (Kromeriz and Zlin, Czech Republic)

 

Conductors Institute of South Carolina

Faculty: Donald Portnoy, Peter Jaffe, Kate Tamarkin, Paul Vermel, Samuel Jones

Conductor’s Institute of South Carolina Orchestra (Columbia, South Carolina)

 

International Christoph Eschenbach Masterclass for Conductors            

Sinfonietta Crakovia (Krakow, Poland)

Faculty: Christoph Eschenbach