Career Overview

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Marketing and PR

  • Arts and entertainment
  • Classical music, my specialty

Musicology

  • Original research
  • Program notes
  • Presentations

Research focus: French Baroque, Gottschalk, 19th century American music, African-American music, suppressed music / music at the margins (LGBT, Jews, Gypsies, et al)

Musician

  • Freelance bassoonist
  • Woodwind specialist
  • Pianist, harpsichordist

Teacher

  • College-level teaching experience in music history, music theory, and bassoon

Education

  • BM, Bassoon Performance, Loyola-New Orleans
  • MBA, Arts Management, SUNY-Binghamton
  • MM, Bassoon Performance, University of Northern Colorado
  • DA, Music History, University of Northern Colorado

Orchestras — staff positions

  • New Orleans Symphony (box office, marketing/PR)
  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (marketing)
  • Concordia: A Jazz Symphony (general manager)
  • Brooklyn Philharmonic (finance/accounting)
  • American Composers’ Orchestra (telemarketing)
  • Orpheus (marketing)
  • Cheyenne Symphony (marketing/PR, events, social media – Facebook)
  • Health & Wellness Orchestra of Fort Collins (social media, marketing)

Career Highlights

Wrote one of the best dissertations ever produced at the University of Northern Colorado’s School of Music.

Personally responsible for raising $1.5 million toward the restoration of Wyoming’s Historic Governors’ Mansion.

Raised $40,000 for the School of Music at the University of Northern Colorado while enrolled as a full-time graduate student.

Organized benefit concerts that, over two summers, provided more than 1,000 lbs. of food for homeless and hungry families in Weld County, Colorado.

Invited to write program notes for Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the New Orleans Symphony within a year of completing undergraduate music degree.