Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting · University of Connecticut, 2012
About
Doctor of Musical Arts conductor and educator with nine years of full-time collegiate teaching and conducting experience across NCAA Division I and small-college environments, including appointments as Director of Athletic Bands at Butler University and Interim Director of Bands at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Background spans wind ensemble and symphonic band conducting, marching and pep band direction, undergraduate and graduate conducting pedagogy, mentorship of graduate conductors, and arranging for nationally televised athletic broadcasts.
Recent professional engagement includes a guest clinic at the University of Tampa Bands (November 2025), attendance at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago (December 2025), and active membership in the College Band Directors National Association. Committed to comprehensive band programs in which concert ensembles, athletic bands, and outreach function as an integrated educational system.
Collegiate Appointments
Director of Athletic Bands2016 – 2022
Butler University · Indianapolis, IN
Interim Director of Bands & Director of Wind Ensembles2013 – 2016
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga · Chattanooga, TN
Associate Director of Bands2012 – 2013
Castleton State College (now Vermont State University) · Castleton, VT
Doctoral Teaching Assistant2009 – 2012
University of Connecticut · Storrs, CT
Graduate Teaching Assistant2007 – 2009
West Virginia University · Morgantown, WV
Director of Bands2004 – 2007
Charlotte Catholic High School · Charlotte, NC — grew enrollment 75 → 120 in three years
Education
Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting2012
University of Connecticut · Principal Conducting Teacher: Dr. Jeffrey Renshaw
Master of Music in Conducting2009
West Virginia University · Principal Conducting Teacher: John Hendricks
Bachelor of Music Education2004
University of Dayton · French Horn (Richard Chenoweth) · Conducting (Patrick Reynolds)
Selected Repertoire Conducted
A selection of works conducted at Butler University, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the University of Connecticut, Castleton State College, and the Connecticut All-State Band. World and U.S. premieres marked.
Bennett — Suite of Old American Dances
Bryant — Dusk
Camphouse — A Movement for Rosa
Chance — Variations on a Korean Folk Song
Colgrass — Old Churches
Copland — An Outdoor Overture
Daugherty — Raise the Roof
Dello Joio — Scenes from the Louvre
Ewazen — A Hymn for the Lost and the Living
Gorb — Bells Across the AtlanticWorld Premiere
Grainger — Ye Banks & Braes O' Bonnie Doon; Hill Song No. 1; Shepherd's Hey
Hanson — Chorale and Alleluia
Hazo — Ride; Perthshire Majesty; Mountain Thyme
Hindemith — Konzertmusik, Op. 49; March from Symphonic Metamorphosis
Holst — First Suite in E♭; Second Suite in F
Holsinger — On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss; Havendance
Husa — Al Fresco; Divertimento for Brass and Percussion
Jacob — An Original Suite; William Byrd Suite
Lauridsen / Reynolds — O Magnum Mysterium; Contre Qui, Rose
Mackey — Sasparilla; Sheltering Sky; Hymn to a Blue Hour
McBeth — Kaddish
de Meij — Symphony No. 1, “Lord of the Rings”
Mendelssohn / Boyd — Overture for Winds, Op. 24
Mozart / Slocum — Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Perrine — Forever RadiantWorld Premiere
Persichetti — Symphony for Band, Op. 69
Reed — Symphony No. III; Armenian Dances; El Camino Real
Rodrigo / Smith — Adagio Para Orquesta de Instrumentos de Viento (Smith trans., 2009)
Year-by-year season concepts and themed productions from Butler University, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Castleton State College — including “A Bulldog’s Guide to the Orchestra,” “Stages,” “Rhapsody,” and the rotating themed productions across seasons.