Curriculum Vitae

Media | Performance | Educator | Administrator | Other

Saxophone and Woodwind Performer

Music Educator

  • Individual Instruction

    • Powers Music School, Belmont MA, 2018-present

              Saxophone/Clarinet Faculty

    • New England Conservatory, Boston MA, 2014-16

      Tutor, Theory Department, 2015-2016

      Substitute Saxophone Instructor, Preparatory School, 2014-2015

    • Brimmer & May School, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2017-2022

               Afterschool music instructor (saxophone, clarinet, piano)

    • EKS Music School, Quincy, MA, 2014-2017

      Wind Program Coordinator

      Instructor of saxophone, flute, clarinet, and theory

  • Group/Classroom Instruction

    • Longy School of Music of Bard College, Cambridge, MA, 2022

      Woodwind Side-by-Side Coach for El Sistema Summer Academy

    • Powers Music School, 2019-present

      Chamber Music Faculty

    • Brookline Adult and Continuing Education, 2016-2017

      Saxophone Class Instructor

    • New England Conservatory, 2014-2016

      Graduate Assistant, Tonal Practice I & Tonal Practice III, Deborah

      Stein, 2014-2016

      Teacher’s Assistant, Development of Personal Styles, Ran Blake,

      2015-2016

    • Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Orchestra, Cal State Fullerton, 2011-2013

      Co-director, founder, conductor, and woodwind instructor

  • Other Music Outreach Staff

    • Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Teaching Artist, 2015-2017

    • Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Educational Outreach Ambassador, 2015-2017

    • Eureka! Ensemble, Director of Community Outreach, 2016-2018

    • North End Music and Performing Arts Center

  • Selected Lectures

    • “World of Woodwinds”, Powers Music School Workshop Week, October 2023

    • “Learn how to Circular Breathe”, Powers Music School Workshop Week, March 2023

    • “Contemporary Classical Music in Boston”, Brookline Adult and Continuing Education, March 2017

    • “Understanding Contemporary Classical Music”, Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, February 2017

    • “Schenkerian and Formal Comparisons in Brahms Piano Trio, Op. 8/I”, University of Arizona Graduate Music Theory Conference, January 2016

  • Service to Profession

    • Adjudicator, MMEA Northeastern District Senior Festival, 2022-2023

    • Adjudicator, MMEA Northeastern District Junior Festival, 2024

    • Adjudicator, MMEA All-State Senior Festival, 2024

Artist Manager/Administrator

  • Abstraction Music Group, Artist Manager and Owner, Boston, MA, 2015-

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 2018-2021

    Events Planning Assistant, Music & Theater Arts Section

  • Collage New Music, Boston, Massachusetts, 2016-2018

    General Manager and Program Director

  • New England Conservatory Libraries’ Office of Archives and Cataloguing, 2015-2016

    Technical Services Assistant

  • California State University, Fullerton, 2010-2013

            Production Assistant, Department of Music

Education

  • New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA

    Master of Music in Saxophone Performance, Kenneth Radnofsky, Dr. Ben Levy, May 2016

    Master of Music in Music Theory, Deborah Stein, May 2016

  • California State University, Fullerton, CA

    Bachelor of Music in Saxophone Performance, James Rotter, May 2013              

  • Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA

    Course: Music Business Law, Summer 2021

    Course: Music Licensing, Winter 2021

  •  Babson College, BabsonX

    Course: Entrepreneurial Leadership Toolbox, May 2020

Notable Achievements

  • 2021 | Composition debut in the Cambridge Science Festival, MA

  • 2020 | Council for the Arts at MIT, Awarded Grants Committee Funding

  • 2018 | Gunther Schuller Society, Founding Advisor

  • 2018 | Arranger debut in the Mellon Music Festival, Davis, CA

  • 2017 | Program Notes for Harvard Musical Society

  • 2016 | First published concert review with Boston Musical Intelligencer

  • 2013-2016 | New England Conservatory Dean’s List

  • 2012 | Undergraduate/Graduate Concerto Competition Winner, Masterworks Festival, Winona Lake, IN

  • 2012 | James C. Rotter Saxophone Award

  • 2011 | Guest Concerto Soloist, Brethren Christian High School, Long Beach, CA

  • 2010 | Vaughan Wind Ensemble Recognition Scholarship, CSUF

  • 2009-13 | President’s Scholar (academic full-tuition scholarship), CSUF