Experience

BLUME Haiti

• United States
• Musicians
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder and now Executive Director of BLUME Haiti

  • Aug 2012 - Present

  BLUME Haiti works with Haitian and international partners to develop leadership skills, awaken individual potential, and create opportunities for civic collaboration and economic development through the shared pursuit of musical excellence. We now partner with 43 programs serving about 5,000 kids yearly in eight of Haiti's ten departments. Our international partners include Luthiers Without Borders (UK branch), the Music Fund (Belgium), Les Ambassadeurs (Canada) and, in the United States, Singing for Change, The Musicians of the Utah Symphony and many more. Show less



Lawrence University

• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Professor

  • Sep 1984 - Aug 2018

  A wonderful 34 career at Lawrence University and now, in retirement, a second phase as Executive Director of BLUME Haiti, an organization supporting music education throughout Haiti, that I co-founded in 2012

• George and Marjory Olsen Chandler Professor of Music Emerita

  • Sep 1984 - Aug 2018

  Cello Professor and chamber music coach (now retired), I also had the pleasure of teaching first and second year theory and the occasional music history class along with Haitian culture and language for students headed to Haiti to teach in summer music camps