Conducting

Ensemble Conducting

Instrumental Music Teacher, John Bapst Memorial High School, 2022 - present

  • Full-time employment teaching concert band, orchestra, chamber music, jazz band, audio engineering/production, piano, and guitar

  • Multiple performances throughout the year with different ensembles in concert and outreach settings, including serving as music director of the spring musical

Wind Ensemble Conductor, Bangor Youth Symphony Orchestras, 2022 - present

  • Leadership of one of Maine’s top youth wind ensembles for students in 6th - 12th grade

  • Recruitment and auditioning of new members

Music Director, Maine Youth Orchestra, 2019 - present

  • Leadership for Maine’s longest running youth orchestra, conducting students in 6th - 12th grade, community members, and three professional orchestra coaches

  • Fall concerts focus on works for choir and orchestra while spring concerts focus on instrumental concerti

Cover Conductor, Portland Symphony Orchestra, 2022 - present

  • Understudy conductor for Pops! concert series

  • Assistant to the conductor during the rehearsal process

MMEA District II Honors Orchestra Conductor, 2024

  • Selected to conduct the Maine Music Educators Association audition-only honors orchestra for their two day festival and performance

  • Premiered an original work, Snow Moon, specifically written for the event

Music Director, Maine Central Institute, 2020 - 2022

  • Full-time employment teaching digital music production, music and sound for film, choir, band, jazz choir, jazz band, and guitar

Head Conductor, USM Composers Choir and Ensemble, 2018 - 2019

  • Led rehearsals of both vocal and instrumental ensembles

  • Conducted the premieres of multiple new works by 21st century composers

  • Mentored composition students in regards to orchestration and notation

Associate Conductor, Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra, 2017 - 2019

  • Two-year contract engagement for six concerts and continuous ensemble rehearsals

  • Responsibilities included part creation, audition proctoring, and personnel management

  • Commissioned to write and conduct original third symphony which was premiered Spring 2019 with this ensemble

Rehearsal Conductor, Portland Youth Symphony Orchestra, 2017 - 2019

  • Conducted sectionals and cover-conducted rehearsals of full ensemble for one of Maine’s premiere pre-college classical music institutions

Guest Conductor, North Shore Philharmonic, 2018

  • Won the position for the Fall 2018 season

  • Conducting Brahms and Bartok with large orchestra