Education
    Doctor of Music Composition, University of Iowa

Honors, Awards, and Professional Affiliations: 
         Recipient of ASCAPlus Award

         Psalm 29 setting reviewed at NPM National Convention: Louisville, Kentucky

        Shards performed at the CMS International Conference: Gyeongju, South Korea

This Is Just To Say performed in the Boston New Music Initiative Concert
     Series: Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

This Is Just To Say performed at the CMS Great Lakes Regional Conference:
     Appleton, Wisconsin

Shards performed at UAHuntsville New Music Festival: Huntsville, Alabama

Bone and Stone performed at the SCI Region V Conference: Rock Island, Illinois

Shards performed at the ICF Spring Festival of New Music: Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Shards performed at the CMS Great Lakes Regional Conference:
     Muncie, Indiana   

Shards performed at the SCI Region V Conference: Dubuque, Iowa

Counterrevolution performed at College Music Society International                          Conference: Zagreb, Croatia             

Member of College Music Society

Member of Iowa Composers Forum

Sold American! performed at Electoacoustic Juke Joint:
      Cleveland, Mississippi

Ozymandias performed at Midwest Composers Symposium:
      Bloomington, Indiana      

Man and Machine performed at Imagine II Electroacoustic Music
      Festival: Memphis, Tennessee

Suite for Solo Saxophone performed at Midwest Composers Symposium:
      Champagne-Urbana, Illinois

Recipient of WMU Graduate College Fellowship

Winner, First Annual Graduate Winds Composition Competition

Runner-up, WMUK Fanfare competition

Recipient of WMU Medallion Scholarship

Elected to Membership in Phi Kappa Phi
      (National Academic Honor Society)

Elected to Membership in Pi Kappa Lambda
      (National Music Honor Society)

Member of Society of Composers, Inc.

Commissions and Additional Creative Work:

When Music Sounds commissioned and premiered by Kalamazoo Singers

Underscore for All Ears radio dramas The Fall of the House of Usher, Parole
     to Panic, Behind the Wall, The Widow's Revenge, Rappaccini's Daughter,
     and The Bickersons

Arrangement of Frank Zappa's Get Whitey commissioned and premiered by
     Opus 21 Ensemble 

Bone and Stone commissioned and premiered by Opus 21 Ensemble

Incidental music for Farmers Alley Theatre production of Marvin's Room    

Underscore for All Ears Theatre radio dramas The Black Cat and Hellfire

Music supervisor and composer for premiere production
     of Dust Town for the Iowa New Play Festival

Incidental music for the Kalamazoo Civic Theatre production
     of Elizabeth Rex

Musical advisor for Kalamazoo College production of Hair

Transcription of spirituals for Kalamazoo Civic Theatre production
     of A Woman Called Truth

Arrangement of traditional hymns for Kalamazoo Civic Theatre Production of
     Dark of the Moon

Piano Accompanist, Kalamazoo Singers

Pianist, Birds on a Wire New Music Ensemble

Pianist, Opus 21 New Music Ensemble

Pianist, Contemporary Music Ensembles, St. Catherine of Siena, Portage, MI

Assistant keyboardist, St. John Bosco Church, Mattawan, MI o

Percussionist and pianist, WMU Concert Band

Harpsichordist and percussionist, WMU Collegium Musicum

Active vocal and instrumental accompanist

Wide-ranging interest in many musical genres, including:
    classical, jazz, rock, folk, country, and film music.