Education
DMA George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Instrumental Conducting, May 2014
Dissertation: “Country Band” March, Historical Perspectives, Stylistic
Considerations and Rehearsal Strategies
MM Brigham Young University, Provo Utah
Music Education, June 2007
Project: Essential Understandings: A Curriculum and Learning Targets for
Junior High Band
BM Brigham Young University, Provo Utah
Music Education, December 2002
Research and Creative Activities
Current research-
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On the Podium: A Systematic Approach to Expressive Conducting
National Band Association Journal
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Summer 2022 issue, "Unlocking the Potential of the Second Tier Ensemble"
The Instrumentalist
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February 2020 "Do Not go Gentle Into that Good Night: A Conversation with Elliot Del Borgo
American Bandmasters Association Journal
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Fall 2016 “‘Country Band’ March Pioneering the Ivesian Sound.”
Utah Music Educators’ Association Clinics
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Stronger Together; They’re not Mine, They-re not Yours, They’re Ours
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Developing the Wind Band in Middle Level Ensembles.
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The Hitch Hikers Guide to Summer Band
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Perspective and Preparation
California Music Educators Association
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Stronger Together; They’re not Mine, They-re not Yours, They’re Ours
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Wind Band Reading Session
College Music Society Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
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“Country Band” March Pioneering the Ivesian Sound
Collage Band Directors National Conference
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2015 Presenter “What Would Happen If” Charles Ives’s “Country Band” March
Brigham Young University Idaho
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Rehearsal Techniques Class
Guest Conducting
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2023 Anaheim Union High School Honor Band
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2023 Norwalk La Mirada High School Honor Band
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2022 Alpine School District Summer Honors Band
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2022 Ventura County High School Honor Band
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2022 Nevada All-State Junior High School Band
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2021 University of Nevada Lake Tahoe Music Camp
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2021 Nevada All-State Junior High School Band Virtual
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2021 ABC Unified District High School Honor Band Virtual
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2020 Dixie State Conducting Symposium
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2020 University of Nevada Lake Tahoe Music Camp
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2020 California All-State Junior High Concert Band
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2020 Nevada All-State Junior High School Band
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2020 Long Beach Unified School District Junior High School Honor Band
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2020 Norwalk La Mirada Unified School District Middle School Honor Band
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2019 University of Nevada Lake Tahoe Music Camp
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2018 Long Beach Unified School District High School Honor Band
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2018 Brigham Young University, Idaho Honor Band
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2018 Inaugural Utah Middle School All-State Band
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2018 Summit School District Honor Band
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2017 SCSBOA All Southern Symphonic Honor Band
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2017 California All-State Music Convention Band Reading Session
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2017 Rowland Unified School District Music Festival
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2017 Long Beach City College Summer Band
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2016 American Band Masters Association, Guest Conduct the Bob Cole Wind Symphony
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2016 “Music for Women” Sponsored by Antelope Valley College
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2016 “Unmeasurable” Guest Conductor, American Fork, Utah
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2016 Alpine School District Summer Advanced Band
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2016 Long Beach City College Summer Band
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2016 “First Trumpets Concert,” International Trumpet Guild Conference
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2015 Nebraska Wesleyan Honor Band
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2015 Long Beach Unified School District Middle School Honor Band
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2015 Norwalk Unified School District Middle School Honor Band
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2015 Festival of Gold, Chicago Illinois, Symphony Hall
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2015 Long Beach City College Summer Band
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2014 Long Beach Unified School District Middle School Honor Band
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2014 5th International Wind Band Festival, Seoul, South Korea
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2013 Maine All-State Band
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2010 New York Music Educators All County
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2010 Idaho Music Educators Association Pocatello