Curriculum Vitae
Media | Performance | Educator | Administrator | Other
Saxophone and Woodwind Performer
Saxophonist and Founding Member of the Jamaica Plain Saxophone Quartet (JPSQ), performing both popular and concert music, 2017-
California State University, Fullerton New Music Festival, May 14 2021
Digital Environments, Cambridge Science Festival, April 24 2021
Stationary Phase, Boston New Music Festival, November 12 2020
Presented by Peabody Essex Museum, MIT, Emerald Necklace Conservancy, HubWeek, Canal District Kendall, JP Porchfest, Standish Village, Concord Park, Back Bay Harvard Club, Harvard Medical School, Forestdale Park Senior Center, Lynnfield Senior Center, Belmont Porchfest, Waltham COA, and Boston Public Market.
Select Solo Performances
All Newton Music School Faculty Recital, April 17 2021
Boston New Music Festival, November 12, 2020 (world premiere)
Boston Conservatory Guest Artist Series, Fall 2015
Museum of Fine Arts SoundBites Series, Fall 2015
Masterworks Festival Concerto Competition Winner, Summer 2012
Brethren High School, Long Beach Concerto Soloist, 2011
Select Chamber Music Performances
NEC’s Tuesday Night New Music, December 14 2021 (world premiere)
Lowell Chamber Orchestra, February 1 2020
MIT Sax Ensemble Guest Artist, December 3, 2019
Berklee Composition Faculty Concert, October 14 2019 (world premiere)
NEC Faculty Recital, February 4 2019 (world premiere)
Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra, 2017-2018 (world premieres)
ALEA III, November 2 2016 (world premiere)
Hub New Music, 2014-2016
Select Musical Performances (saxes, flutes, clarinets, oboe, bassoon)
Jesus Christ Superstar, Capachione School of Performing Arts (Holbrook, MA), 2022
Bodyguard the Musical, Riverside Theatre Works, 2021
Moby Dick, American Repertory Theater, 2019
La Cage Aux Folles, A Christmas Story, The Company Theatre at Norwell
Once on this Island, Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play, A Year with Frog & Toad, Wheelock Family Theater, 2016-2019
Chorus Line, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Arlington Friends of the Drama, 2015-2016
Annie, Oliver, Parish Players of Dedham, 2016-2019
Music Educator
Individual Instruction
Gordon College, Wenham MA, 2019-present
Applied Instructor of Saxophone
All Newton Music School, Newton MA, 2016-present
Saxophone/Clarinet Faculty
Music Theory Faculty
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 | 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