Professor of bassoon and soundpainting at Oberlin Conservatory and Round Top Music Festival.
I help artists unlock their creativity through bassoon, Soundpainting, and the art of practice.
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About
My teaching focuses on practice techniques and creativity in order to enable every student to find their own unique path. Whether that is an orchestral career, teaching, freelancing, improvisation, new music, entrepreneurship, or something outside of music all together! My goal is to unleash everyone's inner artist.
You can check out my teaching and performances on bassoon and as a soundpainter on my youtube and instagram.
I have previously taught at DePaul University, and played with orchestras including the Detroit Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Milwaukee Symphony, Grant Park Orchestra, New Orleans Philharmonic, Houston Grand Opera, and Chicago Civic Orchestra.
I studied Soundpainting with Walter Thompson, and have studied bassoon with George Sakakeeny at Oberlin, Bill Buchman at DePaul, Richard Beene at Colburn.Bassoons I have recorded on include Heckel #10058, Fox 601 #33375, Bell #30, Heckel #7000, Heckel #9498, Heckel 12112, and now Bell #234.In my personal life I enjoy disc golf, being healthy, and learning about new technology.
Student Accomplishments
I'm lucky to have worked with so many wonderful people.
Oberlin has one of the top bassoon studios in the country for winning auditions, competitions, and graduate school placements, but I'm just as proud of all of the people who became writers, doctors, accountants, improvisers, visual artists, arts managers, chemists, and conductors!
Scale and Longtones sheet
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Reed class live
Learn the fundamentals of bassoon reed making through real life scenarios
Practice like a pro
Build great technique, in any domain
