Concerts
2011 Aug | Geneva, IL
Solo cellist recorded with the band Blackfinger, on the track “As Long as I’m With You”
2011 May| IL
Speaker and performer, ICOCE, (Music Therapy lectures) Starved Rock
2011 Nov | Lake Villa, IL
Bardic Madness: Soloist for Medieval music festival (Ravenslake)
2011 Mar | Bloomington, IL
Sandpails premiere chamber performance with composer David Vayo, Illinois Weslyan
University
2010 Jul | Springfield, IL
Solo cellist for Cherry Hills Baptist Church charity fundraiser
2010 May | IL
Speaker, music therapy topics, Illinois Co-Occuring Center for Excellence, Starved Rock
State Park
2010 May | IL
Doctor of Musical Arts in cello performance and literature, with a minor concentration
in composition, degree earned from University of Illinois
2010 Feb
Accompanist for public school district 204 solo and ensemble festival
2009 Nov | Springfield, IL
Musical therapeutic service, Illinois Center for Co-Occurring Disorders
2009 Aug | Schaumburg, IL
Speaker, music therapy topics, Leyden Family Service and Mental Health Center
2009 Jul
Television/photo shoot for Peoria Symphony Orchestra
2009 Jun | Naperville, IL
Chamber music recital, Brookdale Music
2009 May | IL
Speaker, music therapy topics, conference for Illinois Center for Co-Occuring Disorders,
Starved Rock State Park
2007 Jul | Justice, IL
Concert with Smokey Robinson, cello section
2007 Jun | Urbana, IL
Jazz concert with Chip McNiel
2007 Jun | Sullivan, IL
Follies, pit orchestra, The Little Theatre on the Square
2007 Feb | Naperville, IL
Solo recital, Brookdale Music
2006 | IL
Cellist for the CD Funktasia, University of Illinois composers
2005-2006
Assistant principal cellist, Peoria Symphony Orchestra
2004-present
Section cellist, Peoria Symphony Orchestra
2004-2013 | Watseka, IL
Cellist for Sugar Creek Symphony and Song opera festival
2004-2005
Assistant principal cellist, Peoria Symphony Orchestra
2004 Jun | NY, NY
Cellist and guest composer of the festival “Cellobration II,” with the One World
Symphony Orchestra
2004 May | IL
Premiere of two original song cycles at University of Illinois
2004-2008
Pianist (reducing and transposing wind sections) for the University of Illinois conducting
seminar under Donald Schleicher
2003 Sep | NY, NY
Principal cellist guest composer of the festival “Cellobration,” with the One World
Symphony Orchestra
2003 | Urbana, IL
Soloist and participant, International Beethoven Conference
2003 Jun
Principal cellist, Henry Mancini Institute (included performances with Diana Krall, Andy
Williams, Maria Bachman, Monica Mancini, Randy Newman, John Corigliano, Abe Laboriel, Arturo Sandoval and Gunther Schuller.)
2003
Master of Music Degree earned from University of Illinois
2003 Feb
Soloist for University of Illinois’ Culture Shock festival (Prokofiev’s Sinfonie Concertante
for cello and piano)
2002 | Province of Asturias, Spain
Recital tour
2002 Apr | Urbana, IL
Cellist with The Violent Femmes, at The Canopy Club
2001-2009
Section cellist, Prairie Ensemble
2001-2004
Cellist for the University of Illinois conducting seminar under Donald Schleicher
2001-2003
Section cellist, Millikin-Decatur Symphony
2001-2002
Substitute cellist, Memphis Symphony Orchestra
2001
Cellist, Concerto Urbano (baroque period group) under Dr. Charlotte Mattax
2000-2007 | Urbana, IL
Cellist, Enescu Ensemble (principal cellist during 2003-07)
2000-2004
Graduate assistantship in cello at the University of Illinois
2000| AR
Hot Springs Music Festival in Hot Springs