I've had the good fortune to have worked with an amazing array of artists, including Mel Tormé, Smokey Robinson, Johnny Frigo & Joe Vito, Marian McPartland, Michael Feinstein, James Earl Jones, Michael Tree (of the Guarneri Quartet), and Johnny Mathis.
Freelance violinist & violist
Member of local 10-208 AFM/Chicago Federation of Musicians 1992 – Present
- Chicago Sinfonietta 1992 – present (Assistant Principal 2nd violin 2008 – present)
- Hamilton, Broadway in Chicago, 2018 – present, substitute
- Member of the band Midwest 2012 – present
- Marriott Theatre (She Loves Me, The Bridges of Madison County, Ragtime, Oklahoma! — Substitute on October Sky and Evita!)
- Arnie Roth's Chicagoland Pops Orchestra (including Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY)
- Royal Ballet (Don Quixote)
- Joffrey Ballet (9 seasons)
- American Ballet Theater (Swan Lake, Le Corsaire)
- Lyric Opera (Rising Stars)
- San Francisco Ballet
- eighth blackbird
- Chicago Opera Theater
- Chicago String Ensemble
- Music Theater Works (formerly Light Opera Works)
- Lake Forest Symphony
- Illinois Philharmonic
- Rockford Symphony
- Anchorage Symphony Orchestra
- Andrea Bocelli, Smokey Robinson, Mel Tormé, Johnny Mathis, Björk, Orbert Davis, Michael Feinstein, Celtic Woman, Bugs Bunny Symphony, Pete Townshend/Quadrophenia, Dennis DeYoung, Tributosaurus, Susan Boyle (on Oprah!), Apostolic Church of God, and countless weddings, funerals, and assorted gigs
- Member of the Ad Hoc String Quartet 1991 – 1998 (including recordings of new works on Albany Records)
Training
- Northwestern University Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance (Myron Kartman)
- Other teachers have included Blair Milton, Russell Guyver, and Laura Lindemuth.
- Alfred University Summer Chamber Music Institute ’89-’91 (Joseph Fuchs)
- Interlochen Summer Arts Camp: 1987 (Governor’s Scholar) and 1988
- Vocal studies (baritone): Lieder/Opera (Carmen Mehta); David Willis (Theatrical/Shakespeare)