French horn performance and pedagogy in the Mid South and around the United States.

WELCOME! A LITTLE ABOUT ME: 

I lead a multi-dimensional career in multiple time zones—it’s never boring! Based in Memphis, Tennessee, I am on faculty at Rhodes College and the University of Mississippi in Oxford, where I have the pleasure of teaching horn in the shadow of William Faulkner. In the Mid-South region, I am a regular performer with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, IRIS Orchestra, and the Arkansas Symphony.

 Further afield, I tour with the avant-garde wind quintet The City of Tomorrow, a group that won the 2011 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. In June 2021, the ensemble’s second album, Blow, featuring works by Franco Donatoni, Hannah Lash, and Esa Pekka Salonen was released by New Focus Recordings. During the pandemic, I also joined the Lawrence Graduate Bayreuth Tuben Quintet, a radical tuben-horn project and the brainchild of Ann Ellsworth, the horn professor at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.

A Portland, Oregon native, I am a tenured member of the Oregon Ballet Theater and Portland Opera Orchestra and can often be found performing in the pit at the Keller Auditorium and in other venues in the Pacific Northwest. I commissioned and premiered a new work by Seattle composer Nat Evans at the 2015 Northwest Horn Symposium called How to Stay Dry in Western Oregon, based on Nat’s experiences and field recordings while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail and I have performed Fantasie for Horns II by Vancouver composer Hildegarde Westerkamp all over the United States, including performances in Seattle, Portland, Eugene, Tennessee, and New York City. 

I studied horn with Gail Williams and William Barnewitz at Northwestern University, with Bob Ward and Jonathan Ring at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and with Bill Stalnaker in Portland, Oregon.

Lessons to prepare you for your next steps as a horn player.