Currently: Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra – music director [read more], Louisville Orchestra – associate conductor
Previously: Baltimore School for the Arts – orchestra program director, National Symphony Orchestra – cover conductor, Kansas City Symphony & Memphis Symphony Orchestra & Daejeon [Korea] Philharmonic Orchestra – guest, Yale Symphony Orchestra – assistant conductor, Jonathan Edwards Chamber Orchestra – music director, University of Northern Iowa – adjunct instructor of music history and clarinet
Collaborated: Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Schickele, Matt Haimovitz, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, David Shifrin, Manuel Barrueco, Stewart Goodyear, Tim Fain, Tai Murray, Orion Weiss, Gary Kelley, and others
Interested: Everything, and especially Mozart, Mahler, Stravinsky, 20th century music, 21st century music, Latin music, hip hop, multimedia
Educated: Gustav Meier, Leonard Slatkin, Don Thulean, Yehuda Gilad, David Shifrin, and others, Yale University – humanities, Yale School of Music – clarinet, Peabody Conservatory of Music – conducting, National Conducting Institute, Aspen Music Festival, Harvard-Westlake School, Colburn School – clarinet
Reside: Iowa and Louisville, fiancée Jenette, dogs Lucy and Kobe
Recreate: ski, cycle, garden to table, web, nba
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