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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over 25 years of professional performance and teaching students of all ages. Offering online and in-person private instruction for drums, percussion and beginning piano. It is never too early or too late to learn the joy of making music.

OPERA/MUSICAL THEATER

Woolly Mammoth Theater Company
‍A Strange Loop (pre-Broadway run)

Washington, DC

A Capitol Fourth
Lauren Aliana

Washington, DC

Signature Theater
Pacific Overtures ▪ Girlfriend ▪ Season Preview

Shirlington, VA

American University-Musical Theater Department
Assassins ▪ A Funny Thing… ▪ Pippin ▪ Carrie ▪ How to Succeed… ▪ Little Women Miss you Like Hell

Washington, DC

Opera Parallѐle
Champion: Terrence Blanchard (West Coast Premiere) Dead Man Walking: Jake Heggie ▪ Anya17: Adam Gorb (U.S. Premiere)

San Francisco, CA

American Conservatory Theater
Company ▪ Songs for a New World ▪ The Wild Party

San Francisco, CA

Center Repertory Theater
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee ▪ Anything Goes ▪ Beehive, The Musical! ▪ Cabaret Life Could be a Dream ▪ Lucky Stiff Marvelous Party ▪ She Loves MeTenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical ▪ Xanadu

Walnut Creek, CA

ORCHESTRA AND ENSEMBLE

Magical Mystery Girls (All female Beatles tribute band)
Drums/Percussion/Voice

08/2022 −

Great Noise Ensemble
Percussion

Washington, DC
08/2021 −08/2022

Tacoma Symphony
Principal Timpani

Tacoma, WA
09/1998 − 08/1999

Stanford Live! − Inaugural Season
Drums of Winter: John Luther Adams (West Coast Premiere)

Palo Alto, CA

Timpani/Percussion Substitute
Bellevue Philharmonic (WA) ▪ Berkeley Symphony (CA) ▪ Napa Valley Symphony (CA) ▪ Oakland Symphony (CA) ▪ Sacramento Philharmonic (CA) ▪ Santa Cruz Symphony (CA) ▪ Stockton Symphony (CA)

1998 − Present

DISCOGRAPHY

▪ Crystal Drops: The Music of Hi Kyung Kim (Albany Records) 2008
▪ Autour de Messiaen (MSR Classics) 2005
▪ Tribute to Andrew Imbrie (Albany Records) 2005

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Music Educator

2001 –

Arts for the Aging
Teaching Artist

Greater Washington DC Area
05/2023 –

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Bell Choir Director

Falls Church, VA
09/2022 –

The Washington Post
Software Engineer

Washington, DC
08/2017 – 10/2022

San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Ensembles Manager and Librarian

San Francisco, CA
07/2010 – 06/2016

SELECTED ACHIEVMENTS

▪ Concerto Contest Winner, Indiana University
▪ Percussion and New Music Ensemble Departmental Awards, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
▪ Founder’s Day Scholastic Honors, Four-time recipient, Indiana University
▪ Percussion Ensemble Award, Indiana University
▪ Recipient of Jorge Estebanez Scholarship, San Francisco Conservatory of Music

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Orchestra Management: six years experience in contracting, personnel, and production management
Music Librarian: procuring performance rights, bowings, part preparation
Working knowledge of German, Italian, Spanish
Proficient in Sibelius, Logic Pro, Mainstage, Javascript
Arranger: chorus, voice, percussion ensemble and band

EDUCATION

San Francisco Conservatory of Music San Francisco, CA ▪ Master of Music, Percussion Performance
Indiana University Bloomington, IN ▪ Bachelor of Music, Percussion Performance