EXPERIENCE

EASTERN NAZARENE COLLEGE CHORAL UNION (Video coming soon.)

2005-    Music Director and Conductor 

•    60-member college-community choir
•    Repertoire (all performances with professional orchestra and soloists):
                Handel: Messiah  
                Mozart: Requiem
                                Click here to listen to a live recording of "Dies Irae", accompanied by the Kalistos Chamber Orchestra
                Honegger: King David
                Brahms: A German Requiem
                Ellington: Sacred Choral Music
•    Recorded a live CD of Messiah in 2007
•    Presented outreach concerts in multiple venues in the Boston area

EASTERN NAZARENE COLLEGE GOSPEL CHOIR

2004-07     Music Director and Conductor
 
•   See EDUCATOR page for more information and sound files

QUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

2008 Guest conductor 

•    Scheduled to conduct the world premieres of my Christmas-themed piece in December 2008

CHOIR OF CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. PAUL, BOSTON

•    Conducted the annual Messiah Sing-Along in 2006 and 2007

EMPYREAN ENSEMBLE

•    Finalist for Music Director/Conductor position for this professional new-music ensemble based at the University of California,
      Davis

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY

1999-2000   Chamber Orchestra Conductor

•    Selected by Penn faculty to conduct the Music Department’s chamber orchestra
•    Chose repertoire and served other administrative roles
•    Presented outreach concerts

YALE BACH SOCIETY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS

1995-1997    Music Director and Conductor   

•    Selected by the Yale faculty through audition to conduct and oversee all musical and administrative duties of the University’s    
      official chamber orchestra, comprised of graduate and undergraduate students and community members.
•    Programming emphasized contemporary and twentieth-century music, including orchestral works by Harbison, Adams, Kernis,
     and Sheng.
•    Presented outreach concerts for New Haven public school students.       


UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA WIND ENSEMBLE

1997-1999    Assistant Conductor

•    Conducted weekly wind and brass sectionals
•    Guest-conducted the ensemble at several performances.


SLEEPING GYPSY CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER PLAYERS

1994-1995       Founder, Music Director, and Conductor

•    The only student new-music ensemble at Yale College

LEXINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, LEXINGTON, MA

2001-2004 

Chorale (50-voice, mixed) – Music Director and Conductor     
        Repertoire included: Handel, “Dettingen” Te Deum
                                                Vivaldi, Magnificat
                                                Haydn, Missa Brevis
                                                Case: Getting Ready, O Zion
                                                (all with professional orchestra)

Chamber Orchestra (15 members) - Music Director and Conductor
        Repertoire included symphonies by Mozart and Haydn and concertos by Vivaldi and Handel

Chamber Singers (12-voice, mixed) –  Music Director and Conductor 
        Repertoire included madrigals, motets, and anthems

Jazz Band (20 members) – Music Director and Conductor
        Repertoire included classics of all eras of jazz history, original compositions, and original arrangements. 
     

TEACHERS

REPERTOIRE

Choir and Orchestra (with/without soloists) 

 J.S. Bach, Cantata no. 97, “In allen meinen Taten” 
 J. Brahms, A German Requiem:
 Delvyn Case, Getting Ready, O Zion
 D. Ellington, Various choral works (with jazz band)
 G. F. Handel, “Dettingen” Te Deum 
 G. F. Handel, Messiah 
 John Harbison, The Flight into Egypt
 A. Honegger, King David 
 W. A, Mozart, Requiem
 W. A. Mozart, Te Deum laudamus 
 Bright Sheng, Two Folk-songs from Chinhai 

Soloist(s) and Orchestra

 J.S. Bach, Concerto in D minor (violin, oboe) 
 W. A. Mozart, Concert aria: “Non Temer Amato Bene” (soprano)
 Igor Stravinsky, Pulcinella Suite (string quintet) 
 Heitor Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras nos. 1 and 5 (soprano) 
 Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto in D (guitar)
 Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto II (flute)
 Antonio Vivaldi, “Summer” from The Four Seasons (violin)

Orchestra and Concert Band

 John Adams, Shaker Loops (string orchestra)
 Norman Dello Joio, Scenes from “The Louvre” (concert band) 
 Edward Elgar, Serenade in E minor (string orchestra)
 Edvard Grieg, Two Elegiac Melodies (string orchestra)
 G. F. Handel, Water Music – selections (orchestra) 
 Joseph Haydn, Symphony no. 8, “Le Soir” (orchestra)
 Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question (orchestra)
 Aaron Jay Kernis, musica celestis (string orchestra) 
 Darius Milhaud, La Création du Monde (large ensemble)
 Ottorino Respighi, Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no.1  (orchestra)
 William Schuman, Chester (concert band)
 Dmitri Shostakovich, The Folk Festival (concert band)

 Contemporary Ensemble 

 John Cage, Living Room Music (percussion ensemble)
 Delvyn Case, Strange Energy (chamber ensemble, tape) 
 Delvyn Case, Unresting Sea (chamber ensemble)
 Delvyn Case, The Towers of Zenith (chamber ensemble) 
 John Corigliano, Poem in October (voice and ensemble)
 Ishai Dan-Cohen, Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion, Cello (chamber ensemble) 
 Jean Hasse, Tower Piece (brass ensemble)

 Choir

 Many octavos, including music by Bach, Vittoria, Isaac, and Praetorious; spirituals;
 contemporary works; and gospel songs