Bachelor's degree in Music Education University of Northern Colorado
Master Classes on bassoon and contrabassoon with Sol Schoenbach,Jim Rodgers, John Miller, Nancy Goeres, Roger Birnstingl, Mark Popkin, Loren Glickman, and David van Hoesen

Performance Experience

• Central City Opera orchestra -- 1999-2005
• Delaware Symphony -- a recent wonderful opportunity to perform with this orchestra and with bassoonist/composer Chuck Holdeman,whom I have collaborated with on several premieres of his new compositions, and played a performance of Poetry and Music at the Arvada Center.
• Organizer and performer of the free concert series sponsored by Olinger Crown Hill including the Mozart Gran Partita for 13 winds and Serenade for wind octet
• Mercury Ensemble -- performed Vivaldi Concerto in E minor
• Santa Fe Symphony -- for two years traveling to New Mexico, I enjoyed performing with one of my teachers, Artemus Edwards
• Colorado Springs Philharmonic
• Boulder Philharmonic
• Junior Symphony Guild children's programs Inside the Orchestra and Tiny Tots -- since 1985
• Bassooner the Better quartet -- you should hear us bassooner or later!
• Opus 5 Wind Quintet
• Boulder Philharmonic Wind Quintet
• Colorado Ballet orchestra -- for 12 years
• Phantom of the Opera -- Garner Attractions 1994

Professional affiliations

• Denver Musicians Association -- since 1982
• International Double Reed Society -- since 1985
• Music Teachers National Association 1990-97