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Instrumental Music Teacher, John Bapst Memorial High School, 2022 - present
Instrumental Music Teacher, John Bapst Memorial High School, 2022 - present
- Full-time employment teaching concert band, orchestra, chamber music, jazz band, audio engineering/production, piano, and guitar
- Multiple performances throughout the year with different ensembles in concert and outreach settings, including serving as music director of the spring musical
- Leadership of one of Maine’s top youth wind ensembles for students in 6th - 12th grade
- Recruitment and auditioning of new members
- Leadership for Maine’s longest running youth orchestra, conducting students in 6th - 12th grade, community members, and three professional orchestra coaches
- Fall concerts focus on works for choir and orchestra while spring concerts focus on instrumental concerti
- Understudy conductor for Pops! concerts for the PSO's 22-23 and 23-24 seasons
- Assistant to the conductor during the rehearsal process
- Full-time employment teaching digital music production, music and sound for film, choir, band, jazz choir, jazz band, and guitar
- Led rehearsals of both vocal and instrumental ensembles
- Conducted the premieres of multiple new works by 21st century composers
- Mentored composition students in regards to orchestration and notation
- Two-year contract engagement for six concerts and continuous ensemble rehearsals
- Responsibilities included part creation, audition proctoring, and personnel management
- Commissioned to write and conduct original third symphony which was premiered Spring 2019 with this ensemble
- Conducted sectionals and cover-conducted rehearsals of full ensemble for one of Maine’s premiere pre-college classical music institutions
- Won the position for the Fall 2018 season
- Conducting Brahms and Bartok with large orchestra