PRESENT POSITIONS:
Austin Symphony Orchestra (TX)
Music Director
1998-present
Arizona Philharmonic (AZ)
Music Director
2018-present
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
Bravo! Big Sky Festival Orchestra (MT)
Music Director
2013-2023
Hot Springs Music Festival (AR)
Music Director
2011-2020
Britt Festivals Orchestra (OR)
Music Director
1993-2012
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (NY)
Principal Guest Conductor
1995-2000
Erie (PA) Philharmonic Orchestra
Music Director
1996-1999
Aspen Music Festival (CO)
Conducting Staff
1980-1989
GUEST APPEARANCES:
Alabama Symphony Orchestra - 2002
Algarve Orchestra (Portugal) – 2005
Amarillo Symphony Orchestra - 2021
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra - 2021
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra - 1993
Austin Opera - 2019, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2001
Ballet Austin - 1995 - present
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - 1997, 1982
Bochum Symphony (Germany) - 1998
Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra - 2000
Buffalo Philharmonic - 1998, 1997
Canton Symphony Orchestra (OH) - 1992
Carinthian Symphony Orchestra (Austria) - 2009, 2005, 2004
Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra - 2014
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Dvorak Wind Serenade) - 2009
Colorado Symphony Orchestra - 1991
Dallas Symphony Orchestra - 1994
Ecuador National Symphony Orchestra - 2011
Erie Philharmonic Orchestra - 1995
Eugene Symphony - 1995
Fargo/Moorhead Symphony - 1995
Fort Wayne Philharmonic - 1992
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra - 2022, 2008
Hawaii Symphony Orchestra - 1995
Houston Symphony Orchestra - 2002
Hudson Valley Philharmonic (NY) - 1995, 1992
Jacksonville Symphony - 1996
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra - 2005
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra - 1996, 1995
Minnesota Orchestra - 1990
Monterey Symphony Orchestra (CA) - 2022, 2012
Mostly Modern (NY) - 2022
National Orchestral Institute - 1997
National Symphony Orchestra - 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra - 2016, 2000
New Mexico Symphony - 1994
North Carolina Symphony - 1992
Northwest Chamber Symphony – 1994
Orquesta Filarmonica de Boca del Rio (Mexico) - 2018, 2017
Reno Philharmonic - 1998
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra - 2001
Richmond Ballet - 1987, 1986, 1985
Richmond Symphony (Richmond International Festival) - 1995, 1989, 1986
Saint Cecilia Orchestra (NY) - 1996, 1995, 1994
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra - 1995, 1996
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra - 1994, 1989, 1988
Sarasota Orchestra - 2014
Sinfonia da Camera (IL) - 1997
Solisti New York (OK Mozart Festival, Bartlesville, OK) - 1986
Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestra - 1995
Syracuse Symphony - 2009, 2000, 1991
Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center - 1982, 1981
Tucson Symphony Orchestra - 2015, 2014
Tulsa Philharmonic - 1997
Virginia Symphony Orchestra - 1993
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra -2001
West Virginia Symphony Orchestra - 2002
Wichita Symphony - 2018
AWARDS:
Leonard Bernstein American Conductors Program
(American Symphony Orchestra League/Dallas Symphony Orchestra)
1994
Leopold Stokowski Conducting Competition
(American Symphony Orchestra, NY): Prizewinner [no first prize awarded]
1987
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductors Competition
First Prize
1980
OTHER PREVIOUSLY HELD POSITIONS:
Texas State University
Resident Artist - 2012-2013
Breckenridge Music Institute (CO)
Music Advisor and Principal Conductor - 1991-1993
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Resident/Associate Conductor - 1989-1993
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Music Advisor - 1994-1995
Conductor-in-Residence - 1992-1995
Associate Conductor - 1990-1992
Assistant Conductor - 1987-1990
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
Music Director - 1983-1990
Assistant Conductor - 1979-1983
Richmond Symphony
Principal Guest Conductor - 1987-1988
Music Advisor - 1986-1987
Associate Conductor - 1985-1986
Assistant Conductor - 1982-1985
Virginia Commonwealth University
Instructor - 1984-1987
Prince George's County (MD) Youth Orchestra
Music Director - 1979-1983
Associate Conductor - 1974-1979
EDUCATION:
Peabody Institute
MM - Orchestral Conducting
1978-1980
University of Maryland
BS - Music Education
1974-1978
Aspen Music School
Conducting Fellow
1980
TEACHERS:
Frederik Prausnitz
Peabody Institute
1978-1980
William Hudson
University of Maryland
1976-1978
Paul Vermel
Aspen Music School
1979