DMA, MBA, Juilliard. Musicology, marketing, viola, design, finance, academics, technology, finance/investment, entrepreneurism. Executive Director of the famed Taos School of Music, Festival / Artistic Director of the Crested Butte Music Festival, lecturer at British Library, Oxford, NYU, Princeton.
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
TAOS SCHOOL OF MUSIC
The Taos School of Music, celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2023, is widely recognized as one of the country’s preeminent summer music festivals and training programs for elite young artists.
tenure highlights
- Realized record earned and contributed revenue in first year
- modernized organization’s back end, including migration to new CRM
- Introduced focus on environment and indigenous cultures
ARTISTIC / FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
CRESTED BUTTE MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Crested Butte Music Festival presents over 60 events each summer that feature the world’s best performers in symphonic, operatic, chamber, electronic, bluegrass, jazz and hot-club jazz. Additionally, the Festival offers myriad educational programs and camps.
tenure highlights
- Presented numerous world premieres, including the direction of the world premiere of a new production of Philip Glass’ multimedia opera, The Photographer
- Introduction of multimedia concerts (food pairings- Big Gay Ice Cream; experimental films with music; interactive Fluxus evening; Jeeping concerts)
- Increased diversity of music (EX: mariachi, LGBTQ composers / subjects) and inviting BIPOC performers
- Presented full summer season with live, in-person performances during 2020, with balanced budget
VIOLIST
VOXARE STRING QUARTET
The award-winning Voxare String Quartet has performed over 300 concerts in the world’s leading concert venues, received reviews in publications such as The New York Times and Washington Post, and recorded for numerous labels.
highlights
- Recipient of Chamber Music America’s ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming
- Winner, Chamber Music Yellow Springs competition
- Artist-in-residence positions at Dartmouth, University of Virginia, University of Leeds (UK), International Computer Music Conference
- US representative at the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad
ACADEMIC
LECTURING, WRITING, RESEARCH
Areas of academic specialization include aesthetics, film and music, nineteenth-century Romanticism, the music of Paul Hindemith, string instrument construction and history, economics of education, market in the arts.
highlights
- Lectures at British Library, Oxford, Princeton, NYU
- Keynote seminar at College Music Society National Conference
MEDIA + TECH
Development of media projects through thorHAMMER media (founder), digital media for marketing
highlights
- development of NOTED ENDEAVORS, with Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson, and published in association with Musical America
- high-resolution audio recordings and production for numerous record labels and digital releases