Co-Founder and Executive Director of Anima Mundi Productions (2010-present), a 501.c.3 non-profit arts initiative dedicated to “healing the soul of the world through the arts.” Manager and director of all operations including fundraising, marketing, publicity, artistic productions, etc.
Composer and producer of The Canticle of the Black Madonna (workshop premiere: Eugene, OR 2013; professional premiere, Portland, OR 2014), a 2-hour opera comprising 6 principle characters, a 24-voice mixed chorus, a 23-piece orchestra, with professional production in Portland’s Newmark Theatre. Pictures and details here.
Founder, conductor, and artistic director of The Ambrosia Ensemble (2010-13), a mixed vocal/instrumental ensemble dedicated to premiering new chamber works influenced by Renaissance counterpoint and sacred, philosophical, and mystical texts.
One of five composers selected to be featured in Eugene Symphony public master classes with Pulitzer winners Steven Stucky (2010) and John Harbison (2011)
Featured composer, conductor, and performer on the Music Today Festival concert series (2011) and the Vanguard concert series (2011)
Featured composer on the Music on the McKenzie concert series (2011)
Winner, Portland Vocal Consort Young Artist Composition Contest (2010)
Featured composer for unaccompanied vocal workshop led by Grammy-award winner Lucy Shelton (2010)
Commissioned to write orchestral theme music for The Streamy Awards in Los Angeles (2009) (IMDB link)
Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, 2009 (work premiered)
Selected for master classes and private conducting lessons with Estonian master choral conductor Hirvo Surva and Grant Park/Oregon Symphony conductor Carlos Kalmar
Ashland Winter Fine Arts Festival, 2006 Ashland, OR (work commissioned/premiered)