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Performing is at the heart of the musician’s trade. This statement is true for me as well. I maintain an active performing schedule, performing with numerous orchestras throughout greater Chicagoland and as far North as Green Bay, WI. I also thoroughly enjoy performing chamber music, and am able to do this during the year by performing with the Rockford Symphony’s Educational Woodwind Quintet, and through occasional performances through the Music Institute of Chicago.
I first got into music in the 5th grade, starting on the saxophone. I began bassoon studies as a junior in high school and ‘never looked back.’ My studies in music lead me more and more to believe that I cannot see my life without music taking a major role in it, and cannot truly live without performing. It truly feels as if music ‘flows through my veins.’ When I perform I feel truly alive and absolutely love it. Perhaps this is why I can somehow manage while maintaining such a vigorous schedule.
But, while performing is important, I also view it as complementary to my teaching career. My performing helps me to be a better teacher, as well as allowing students to hear me perform.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
info coming (yes, I do have performances, but find myself too busy to input them here ...)
Prior PERFORMANCES
April 10, 2010 - 8:00pm, Lincoln Way North HS - Frankfort, IL April 11, 2010 - 3pm, Lincoln Way North HS - Frankfort, IL Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra - 2nd Bassoon Beethoven Symphony #2 Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet Suite Bernstein Overture to West Side Story
April 24, 2010 - 7:30pm, Coronado Theater - Rockford, IL Rockford Symphony Orchestra - Contrabassoon Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis
April 29, 2010 - 7:30pm, UIC Callypigian Players
May 2, 2010 - 3:00pm, Shattuck Auditorium - Waukesha, WI Waukesha Symphony Orchestra - Contrabassoon Beethoven Symphony No. 5
May 8, 2010 - 7:30pm, Coronado Theater - Rockford, IL Rockford Symphony Orchestra - Contrabassoon Beethoven Symphony No. 9
May 22, 2010 - 3pm, Lincoln Way North HS - Frankfort, IL Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra - 2nd Bassoon Poulenc Two Marches & Interlude Bach Concerto for 2 Violins Dvorak Symphony #9 September 26, 2009 - 7:30pm, Coronado Theater - Rockford, IL Rockford Symphony Orchestra - Contrabassoon Brahms Symphony No. 3
October 11, 2009 - 3:00pm, Oconomowoc Arts Center - Waukesha, WI Waukesha Symphony Orchestra - Contrabassoon Liszt Orpheus
November 14, 2009 - 7:30pm, Coronado Theater - Rockford, IL Rockford Symphony Orchestra - Contrabassoon Britten Four Sea Interludes
November 15, 2009 - 3:00pm, Shattuck Auditorium - Waukesha, WI Waukesha Symphony Orchestra - Contrabassoon Copland Lincoln Portrait
November 21, 2009 - 8:00pm, Lincoln Way North HS - Frankfort, IL November 22, 2009 - 3pm, Lincoln Way North HS - Frankfort, IL Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra - 3rd Bassoon & Contrabassoon Ravel Daphnes & Chloe, Suite #2
December 4, 2009 - 11am & 7:30pm, Saint Xavier University - Chicago, IL Saint Xavier University - Bassoon Prokofiev Peter & the Wolf
December 11 & 12, 2009 - 7:30pm, University of St. Francis - Joliet, IL University of St. Francis - Bassoon Pergolessi Magnificat
December 13, 2009 - 3:00pm, Joliet Junior College - Joliet, IL Joliet Junior College - Bassoon Handel Messiah
January 30, 2010 - 8:00pm, Lincoln Way North HS - Frankfort, IL Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra - 3rd Bassoon & Contrabassoon Wagner Overture to The Flying Dutchman Wagner Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (from Götterdämmerung) Wagner Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (from Das Rheingold) Brahms Tragic Overture, Op. 81 Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op.90
February 6, 2010 - 7:30pm, Fox Cities Performing Arts Center - Appleton, WI Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra - Bassoon "Lord of the Rings" Pops Concert
March 20, 2010 - 7:00pm - Valparaiso, IN Bach Institute at Valparaiso University - Bassoon Bach Saint Matthew Passion
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