Experience

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Conductor and Youth Orchestra Music Director

  • Aug 2017 - Present

• Creativity Club, Founder

  • Jan 2018 - Present

  Creativity Club is a weekly meeting of young composers and those interested in uncovering the mysterious process of musical creativity. Within a supportive environment, students nurture their skills in music composition and other innovative approaches to problem-solving. Creativity Club culminates annually in a performance of new orchestral compositions performed by the South Dakota Symphony Youth Orchestra.



10th Wave Chamber Collective

• Board Member

  • Sep 2022 - Present

  Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 10th Wave is a music ensemble based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota that brings engaging and interdisciplinary classical new music to performance spaces both inside and out of the normative setting. Through our concerts, we strive to build a community within our audiences that breaks down the barriers of social class, race, and ethnicity to be accessible for all who come to listen.



DAKOTA SKY FOUNDATION

• United States

• Executive and Artistic Director

  • Aug 2020 - Present

  Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States Building community through music. Music-and-ideas festival which demonstrates the unique role music can play in elevating the work of influential leaders and thinkers.



Omaha Symphony

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Cover Conductor

  • Sep 2022 - Oct 2022

  Omaha, Nebraska, United States Guest assistant (cover) conductor for 2 masterworks programs.



LAKES AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL

• United States
• Music
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Conductor and Livstream Director

  • Aug 2021 - Aug 2021

  Assistant Conductor to Maestro Christian Reif, and Livestream Director.



Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

• United States
• Musicians
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Conducting Fellow

  • Jul 2021 - Jul 2021

  Selected as Conducting Fellow



Southwest Minnesota State University

• Afghanistan
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • Jan 2018 - May 2020

  Marshall, Minnesota, United States Cello instructor, Guest conductor, Instructor of Survey of World Music MUS 101



Iowa Great Lakes Music Festival

• Founder and Music Director

  • May 2014 - Sep 2018

  Okoboji, Iowa, United States



Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Assistant Conductor (Youth Orchestra)

  • Sep 2015 - May 2017



Martha Graham Dance Company

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Conductor

  • Mar 2016 - Apr 2016

  Washington, District of Columbia, United States Assistant/Cover Conductor for the Martha Grahmn Dance Company, at their performances at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Program featured Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Barber’s Cave of the Heart. Also assisted on a recording project with the orchestra.