Oh hi there.

Welcome to my site. ​I’m excited to share what makes me go.

​I’m an arts manager, curator, creative producer & director, teaching artist, and musician. That maybe looks like a bunch of different stuff but the common thread is wonderfully improvisatory values–aligned humans.

​I’m a solution focused problem seeker, and I create.  A lot.​  Sometimes new things, sometimes kaleidoscopic shift for existing things. Some things I regularly create are ideas, content, impossible goal oriented ​dream teams, ​and shared spaces for surprise and contemplation. Plus I like creating tasty savory snacks.  That’s a thing too.
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​I lead and work with people and organizations interested in idea ​making, imaginative implementation, and collaborative structures.​ ​It’s pretty cool to ​be in a room of thought showering creatives ​amped up on caffeine and homemade chia bites.

​I’m old enough ​to have done stuff, and young enough to be ​seeking new adventures.   I've created audio / visual works, words, and ideas, curated special programming and projects, served as a teaching artist and performance host, led adult and youth education courses in person and online, held artistic operations, marketing, and fundraising roles, and played  a lot of viola.

​​While I was Director of Community Engagement for the Colorado Symphony I rebooted and brought the Very Young Composers program to national attention, began a pedagogical exchange program with a youth orchestra in Haiti, and received an award from the Colorado Music Teachers Association for programming excellence.   More recently I served as Executive Director for the Longmont Symphony Orchestra, assisting them through both a covid season and post covid emergence and recovery. 

In the late 1900s, I founded ​Loon Lake Live in the Northern Adirondack region of New York.  LLL makes shared music experiences in community spaces.  Performances of contemporary and historical music written for mostly acoustic instruments has been the focus with periodic forays into group improv sessions, discussions, and workshops.

 I'm currently Assistant Principal Violist of the Colorado Symphony and Creative Producer / Violist for Ensemble Faucheux where, in both roles, I also serve as an emcee and teaching artist.  I'm also proud to be a member of the 2023-2024 inaugural cohort of the Anne Parsons Leadership Program of the League of American Orchestras.

​I hope you find this site engaging and a jumping off point for exciting self directed discoveries.  Feel free to reach out anytime with questions, requests, wild ideas, or comments.  I love connecting with people.