Conducting and Bandleading Experience | |||
Founder, Conductor, Manager (also see entry in Arts Administration). Responsible for conception of group, selection and preparation of music, conducting rehearsals and concerts, recruiting and auditioning members, recruiting performing partners, and building audience.
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Founder, Organizer, Leader. Responsible for conception and realization of this annual good-will event, including publicity, music preparation and website upkeep. Click
here for more information about the Caroling Mob |
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Founder, Leader, Manager (also see entry in Arts Administration section). Responsible for conception and realization of this weekly singing circle, including music selection, guitar accompaniment and songleading. Click
here for more information about the Churchless Choir |
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Bandleader, Jug and Guitarist. Organized high-calibre Boston area musicians into a jug band for Song Foolery, an April Fool's Day concert (with the Loose Canon and Inner D). With Guy Mendilow on vocals and piano, Miss Tess on vocals and guitar, Cello Joe, local jug band hero Rob Rudin on the washboard, and washtub bass legend Robbie Phillips. |
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Music Director. Hired to lead rehearsals and performances of 10 voice a cappella women's vocal group. Arranged songs and accompanied with guitar as needed. Collaborated with manager Barbara Ryerson in music choice. Click
here to read Barbara Ryerson's testimonial |
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Guest Conductor. Hired to lead rehearsals and performance of 25 voice semi-professional chorus for its main Jordan Hall concert. Lorna Cooke deVaron, Conductor. Click here to read Karen
Parson's testimonial |
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Director, Co-Conductor. Hired to lead rehearsals and performances of after-school Gospel chorus. Initiated collaboration with co-conductor and Gospel keyboardist Obadiah Baker. |
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Chorus and voice teacher. Responsible for teaching, rehearsing and performing with 90 member general chorus and 25 member concert choir. Also taught elective voice class. |
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Music Director and Pit Conductor. Rehearsed and conducted performances of Tommy, the Rock Opera with the Wayland HS Drama department. Arranged and transposed music as necessary. |
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Founder, bandleader. Assembled, rehearsed and led 15-piece Swing Orchestra for charity dance event at NEC. |
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Assistant Conductor (also see entry in Arts Administration section). Responsible for assisting conductor with sectionals and rehearsals as needed, and preparing and performing selected advanced repertoire for 25 voice choir. |
Arts Administration Experience |
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Co-founder, boardmember. Partner in process of conception and incorporation of the heARTbeat collective as 501(c)3 nonprofit. Sharing responsibility for booking, publicizing and hosting classes and special events at our 35 Wyman location. Responsible for creating and maintaining collective-wide website (www.heartbeatcollective.org), online calendar and mailing list of all members. Fully responsible for my continuing projects (like the Caroling Mob and the Loose Canon Chorale) which are now a part of this forming non-profit collective.
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Manager, Administrator. (also see entry in Conducting section ). Responsible either directly or for the delegation of: all publicity, including both member and audience recruitment; finding donated rehearsal space; booking and production of concerts; graphic design of posters and website; creation and maintenance of website and mailing lists. Learned to use Googlegroups mailing lists, HTML and CSS website programming languages, and the programs Photoshop and Microsoft Word.
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Administrator (also see entry in Conducting section). Responsible for member recruitment, publicity, website and mailing list upkeep, and music preparation for this weekly singing circle. Garnered both local and national media attention for this project.
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Festival Volunteer Coordinator. Responsible for recruiting and scheduling volunteer labor at the 28th annual Wake Up the Earth Festival in Jamaica Plain. |
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Manager (also see entry in Conducting section). Responsible for recruitment of members, publicity, sheet music preparation, and other administration for 25 member choir. |
Education |
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Master of Music with Academic Honors in Choral Conducting. Major teacher: Tamara Brooks. Ear training and improvisation work in the Contemporary Improvisation department with Hankus Netsky and Ran Blake. Student commencement speaker for the 2001 Graduation ceremony. |
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Bachelor of Science, Department of Molecular Biology. GPA 4.3 of possible 5.0. Undergraduate research in Alex Rich's x-ray Crystallography lab. X-C Ski Team, '91-'93.President of MIT Concert Choir, '92-'93. |
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Non-Degree Coursework and Study |
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Three week residential singing trip to Tibilisi, Sighnaghi and other regions of Georgia, to study Georgian polyphony. Performed with American and Georgian singers on four-city tour. |
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One week intensive singing workshop. Studied Georgian, Bulgarian, and Appalachian folk choral music. Performed in Massachusetts and Vermont. |
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Two one-week intensive workshops in world music: Music of the African Diaspora, and Turkish and Arabic music. With Bob Labaree. |
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Contemporary Improvisation Certificate program. Private study with Carl Atkins (Big Band conducting) and Hankus Netsky (ear training and improvisation). |
Outdoor Experience |
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Outdoor Education and Cooperative Challenge teacher at Nature's Classroom, Lakeside CT, '93-'94. Student at Tom Brown, Jr.'s Tracker School, Summer '06 and '07, learning tracking, awareness and nature lore. Veteran of many extended wilderness kayak and ski trips. |
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Mechanic and experienced cycle tourist. Experience in four bicycle shops (Ace Wheelworks, Cambridge, MA; Ferris Wheels and Bikes not Bombs, Jamaica Plain, MA; South Maui Bicycle, Maui, Hawaii). Toured 1200 miles from North Dakota to Utah in autumn of 1994. Thirteen years accident free cycling in Boston. Currently doing freelance mechanic work. |
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Class IV C-1 and kayak paddler. First Place, New England Whitewater Slalom Series, C-1 Junior, 1988. Canoe instructor and counselor, Camp Thunderbird, summer 1994. Can eskimo roll either C-1 or kayak with or without a paddle. Rivers run include the Tat and the Taku in Alaska, the Pemi, Saco, Dead and Contoocook in NH and the Farmington in MA and CT. |
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Back-country and Telemark skier.. Bill Koch Ski League, '80-'82; CHS X-C Ski Team, '88-'89; MIT X-C Ski Team, '92 and '93. Taught x-c and telemark ski skills at Weston Ski Track in Weston, MA in '94 and '95. |
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Other Experience |
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Tutor. Taught math, english, and test-taking skills to students grades 6-12. |