Career Highlights
- Current Adjunct Professor of Oboe at Hillsdale College
- Only American invited to compete as a quarter-finalist in the Prague Spring International Oboe Competition in 2008
- Winner of the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity's 'Career Performance Grant', which supported travels to Prague. Featured in Pan Pipes, the fraternity journal
- Former Assistant Principal Oboe/English horn of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra
- Former Second Oboist in the Dearborn Symphony Orchestra
- Students have won numerous awards and honors, such as:
- Acceptance into major conservatories and universities for oboe performance (Northwestern, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Manhattan School of Music, etc.)
- Acceptance into Interlochen for oboe and musical theater
- Winners of the Hillsdale College Concerto Competition for two consecutive years
- Michigan All-State Choir (tenor and alto) and Band (oboe)
- Michigan Youth Arts Festival Honors Orchestra
- Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra (principal oboe)
- Michigan Youth Ensembles Orchestra and Band
- Oboists members of Ann Arbor's Huron and Pioneer High School Symphony Band/Orchestra
- MPulse Vocal Arts Institute
- Washington National Opera Institute at American University
- New York Pops Annual Gala at Carnegie Hall - chorus member. Sang with Matthew Broderick, Kelli O'Hara, and Steven Pasquale