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