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TEACHING

- Lebanon HS (Percussion Director)

- Archbishop Moeller HS/Mount Notre Dame High School Band

- Williamstown HS - Williamstown, KY

- Madison HS - Middletown, OH

- Bishop Dwenger HS - Fort Wayne, IN

- Northside HS - Fort Wayne, IN

- Student teaching completed at Indian Hill Middle and High Schools in Cincinnati, OH under Chris Rotsching (band) and Trista Emmons (orchestra)

- Clinician at the 2019 Cincinnati Percussion Festival

- Intern at the New Horizons String Orchestra in Cincinnati Ohio with specialization in Cello under Dr. Bettyanne Gottlieb

PERFORMANCE

- 1st place champion at the PAS International Snare Drumming Competition in November 2019. (watch the solo here)

- Extensive experience in orchestral/concert playing in the CCM Orchestral, Wind Studies and Percussion Ensembles

- Cast Member on the 2020 Blue Devils International tour, touring 7 European countries in June/July 2020 (tour postponed due to COVID-19)

- Cast member of the Rhythm X (world class indoor percussion ensemble) in 2017

Rudimentary knowledge of all brass, woodwind, string and percussion instruments (including piano)

EDUCATION

- Degree in Music Education from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of music.

- Studied privately with Jim Culley, Rusty Burge (both PAS Hall of Fame inductees), Dr. Brady Harrison and Kent Klee

- Winner of the 2019 Cloyd Duff Scholarship through PAS

EVERYTHING ELSE

- Arranging and composing for percussion ensemble and steel band

- Extensive experience with audio/video editing using both the Adobe and Apple creative suite softwares

- Chop.out, my educational instagram experiment, has amassed over 1,000,000 views in the last two years with students from all over the globe playing standard snare drum music in a new and exciting way

- Delivered pizza for one summer at Dominos.