The Lion and The Rose, for mezzo, chorus, and large orchestra – American Philharmonic – 2009, 2019

Concertino for flute, bassoon, strings, and percussion – American Philharmonic – 2001

Music for Hellerwork - electro-acoustic ambient music for use in physical therapy – 1988

Timpani/Principal Percussion – Santa Barbara, Ventura, Fremont, Ukiah, La Jolla, Santa Rosa Symphonies

Bass/Baritone – San Francisco Choral Artists, Schola Cantorum of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Musica Reperta

Audio Engineer – UCSB Music Dept., Lux Aeterna Productions, KSK Recording, Precision Fidelity, Jupiter Systems, GSKM Music Services

Orchestra Librarian – Music Academy of the West

Inventor of OSIRES™ natural sounding string ensemble reinforcement for symphony orchestras – 2000

Founder of the American Philharmonic Association and architect of its 21st century organizational paradigm and community-sourced business model – 1998

Co-founder/CEO of Jupiter Systems, a music software company producing award winning disruptive technologies for the digital audio recording industry – acquired by Antares Technologies – 1990

American Philharmonic Association - general director 2016-2020

Symphony Parnassus - substitute conductor 2015-2016

San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra - substitute conductor 2015

American Philharmonic - Sonoma County - music director 1999-2011

Santa Rosa Nutcracker - music director 2008-2011

Apollo Chamber Orchestra - music director 2004-2010

Tassajara Symphony - guest conductor 2004

Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestra - substitute conductor 2002-2003

Auburn Symphony - guest conductor 1995

Houston Youth Symphony - music director 1987-1989

Houston Composers’ Alliance - music director 1987-1989

West Bay Opera - assistant conductor 1983-1984

Fremont Philharmonic - assistant conductor 1982-1983

Sonoma Opera Theater - music director 1981-1982

Founder / Executive Director
Inventing and promoting new business models and technologies, expanding the conversation for change. Sponsoring innovative technologies and methods to enable American art music, artists, and staff to flourish and prosper.

Managing Partner
Composer / Conductor / Producer / Orchestrator / Audio Engineer
Full life cycle music production services to the Performing Arts industry. – Your Music Managed – Start to Finish.
Clients include SF Symphony, SF Ballet, Classical Tahoe, Santa Cruz Symphony, Festival Napa Valley

MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST • Santa Barbara, CA
Orchestra Librarian / Assistant to Maurice Abravanel

Managed music rentals, rights, music preparation, entering bowings, rehearsal cover, cleaning and shipping of orchestral parts for all concerts and operas. Organized the school’s first card catalog system and filing system.

SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
Orchestra Manager

Managed all scheduling and communications, orchestra personnel assignment and attendance, stage layout and setup, equipment logistics, venue scheduling, organizational communications, run outs to Davies Symphony Hall.

Sr. Manager – Communications

Created and drove an innovative, multi-channel marketing campaign producing a doubling of concert attendance, 45% increase in donated revenue, and put the school in its new location on the San Francisco arts map in one year.

OPUS ONE ENSEMBLE • San Francisco, CA

Founder / Music Director

Programmed the concerts, recruited a chamber orchestra of 35 players from SF’s professional orchestras, contracted with the venues, wrote, designed and executed marketing campaigns, raised funds from SF music supporters, managed concert operations, library functions, rehearsals, stage logistics, instrument rentals, and finance.

AMERICAN PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION • Santa Rosa, CA

Founding Music Director / General Director / President of the Board

• Founding: Recruited by the Cotati City Council to start an orchestra in 1998. Liaison to City Council. Facilitated the enrollment meetings for artists and volunteers inside a new governance model resulting in fifty-five players the first season. Led the group conversations for creating the Charter of the organization inside a new paradigm for orchestra. Designed and implemented a democratic, yet highly accountable and workable system for organization governance, personnel performance management, and community building.

• Fundraising: Trained, led, and managed the all-volunteer fund-raising team to win several grants from the Community Foundation, the California Arts Council, Irvine Foundation, and major individual donors.

• Community Building: Instituted and implemented the American Philharmonic Young Artist Awards, yearly collaborations with Santa Rosa Symphony Chorus, Santa Rosa Nutcracker, and free concerts for young people. Engaged the Hispanic community with New World composer programming and Spanish language live translation at concerts.

• Operations: Directed and managed an all-volunteer operations team doing logistics, rehearsal setup, hospitality, post-concert receptions for the public and artists, office volunteers, fund raisers, etc.

• Finance: Designed as the first truly crowd-sourced symphony orchestra, the American Philharmonic produced up to eighteen concerts per year to audiences averaging ~800 per performance. Free admission to attend. People were asked from the stage to pay what they could to exit in a “Pay It Forward” spirit. This worked remarkably well. The organization’s earned income grew at double digit rates for ten years until interrupted by the Great Recession.

• Contracting and Negotiations: Managed a multi-week adversarial conversation and won agreement and reconciliation with IATSE and AFM Union representatives in a dispute regarding the Santa Rosa Nutcracker. Contracted with venues, five soloists, seventy-five orchestra musicians, and about thirty lay volunteers per year.

• Music Technology: Invented a new technology (OSIRES™) that makes the orchestra’s string section sound four times larger with no discernable electronic or acoustical artifacts. This enabled the APO to perform the large Romantic repertoire with the full dynamic range and tonal balance of a major symphony orchestra.

• Tour Management: In 2009, the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China invited APO to perform in seven major cities in China in 2010-2011. Led the China Tour Team in negotiations, programming, planning and travel administration and logistics to successfully field a sixty-person orchestra, their spouses/partners, for a two-week international tour.