Professional Performance

Music director, Trilogy and Opera Company
Cover conductor, Boston Pops
Conducting appearances with the orchestras of Dallas, Buffalo, Hartford, Akron, New Haven, Vermont, New Jersey, Oakland, Sacramento, Knoxville, Norwalk, Washington, Savannah, Color of Music Orchestra, Paducah, Oklahoma, and Dubrovnik; the Brno State Philharmonic; the Bohulav Martinu Philharmonic; the Prague Radio Symphony; the Dvorak Symphony; Moscow Conservatory Orchestra; Principal Military Orchestra of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation; the Oberlin Conservatory Opera; and Cleveland Opera Theater, Inner City Lost Angeles Youth Orchestra, Monteux School and Music Festival
Immediate past president, International Conductors Guild
Cochair, Conductors Constituency League of American Orchestras
Former artistic director, NYSSSA Chorus and Orchestra Program, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, New York
Compositions published by Loren Kaiser, Augsburg Fortress, Carl Fischer, Warner Brothers, and Alfred
Compositions performed by New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Pops, Dallas Symphony, and many orchestras nationally and internationally
Recordings on Albany, Centaur, Koch, Roven, and Videmus records
Clinician adjudicator, Fulbright, National Endowment, and State Arts Councils
Laureate music director, Washington Symphony Orchestra, Washington, D.C.
Aspen Professional Fellowship
Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship
Guest curator, Sirius XM Radio

Awards

Musical America’s Top 30 Professionals of the Year (2022-2023)
Recipient of the Dupont Scholar Award
Annual American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Awards
Astral Foundation Award
New York State Education in the Arts Award
Recipient of the Distinguished Medal of Artistic Achievement from the Ecuador Youth Symphony
Orchestra Foundation
D.A., Keene State College (honorary)
Aspen Professional Fellowship
Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship

Education

M.M.E., Hartt School of Music
B.S., Lehman College

In Their Own Words

“Here at Berklee, we have one of the strongest composition departments in the country. We’ve got over 37 composers on the faculty, and really 118 composers in the whole Writing Division. No other place has this many people who write music in one area. The attitude around here is laid-back, but serious at the same time, because most of the composers are very active, writing everything from performance works to film scores. And that’s what makes Berklee different. It’s a very exciting, creative atmosphere.”

“What’s great about our Writing Division is people can cross over; they can do projects in different departments. These composers are writing symphonies, string quartets, chamber works, orchestras, short works, piano pieces, choral pieces. It’s very exciting. And we’re conductors, so we get to see the pieces performed here.”

“One of the people at the Boston Symphony told me that Berklee composition students are the most well-rounded, because they can write in all styles, from pop to symphonic works. People are beginning to realize what a jewel this is.”