Performance School of Music Burlington, ON Feb 2010 - present Preschool Music Teacher (contracted out to private preschools)
developed and ran a program of half-hour music classes with preschoolers (aged 2-5), with an emphasis on rhythm & melody, basic theory & music history, exposure to various instruments and musical styles, language and motor skills development, and an introduction to basic notation
York University North York, ON Sept 2010 - Pres Teaching Assistant
2011: assigned to Rob Bowman's Popular Music course. Marking and Exam invigilation.
2010: assigned to Mike Cado's R&B ensemble to assist the horn section, play lead trumpet, and provide arrangements.
Harmony Arts Academy Oakville, ON Jan - Jun 2010 Guitar, Piano, Trumpet & Theory Teacher
private teacher for beginner and intermediate guitar, piano, and trumpet students
Ontario Arts Council Popular Music Recording Grant recipient (the Book of Gnomes)
tracking and arrangement for a Theatre Ancaster production of Guys & Dolls (spring 2011)
First Trumpet for the Sinfonia community orchestra, Hamilton (2010)
Recordings and performances with Kite Hill, Jack Marks, Bellewoods, Valery Gore, Karyn Ellis, Ronley Teper, Great Aunt Ida, the DoneFors, Nick Zubeck, A Northern Chorus, Brian MacMillan, and Lily Frost, and Metal Kites, among others.
3-part horn arrangements (trumpet, mellophone, trombone) for albums by Nick Zubeck, A Northern Chorus, Bunny Brown, Brian MacMillan, Lily Frost, Book of Gnomes, Bellewoods, and Ronley Teper
Principal trumpet for May 2008 production of Lionel BartŐs Oliver! & March 2009 production of Guys & Dolls @ the Mississauga Living Arts Centre
Long & McQuade Musical Instruments Burlington, ON 2003 - 2004 Band Department Sales, Educational Liaison
in-store sales and customer service, & school accounts maintenance
Freelance Transcriptionist 1999 - 2002
Hired to transcribe recordings ranging from single jazz solos to full big band scores
included 3 full score big band recordings of Red Norvo (from the 1920s)
Ontario Pioneer Adventure Camp Muskoka, ON Summers '95, '96, '98 Volunteer positions: Music director; Assistant Program Coordinator
helped plan and oversee daily section-wide and camp-wide activities
led camp-wide singing (campers and staff) daily; ran daily half-hour music activities
EDUCATION
York University North York, ON MA, Musicology (candidate) completion expected in 2013
Proposed thesis: "Skipping From Folk To Pop (and Back): Investigating the Intersection and Diversion of Folk and Kids' Musics in the 20th Century."
Hons BFA Music, 2009 1997 - 1999 & 2008 - 2009
Humber College Etobicoke, ON Don Thompson's jazz history and composition course (grade:90%) Sept 2004 - Apr 2005 Jazz Performance trumpet (working towards BMus) Sept 1999 - Apr 2001
McMaster University Hamilton, ON Sept 1996 - Apr 1997 Faculty of Humanities (working towards BA)