PERFORMANCE

        1999- present          Free-lance Musician, woodwind instruments, Minneapolis/St. Paul

Contracting Musical Groups—Live Music http://www.livemusicjazz.com

        1985- 1999              Free-lance Musician, woodwind instruments, Central Florida

        1995- 1997              Jazz Quartet, Seaworld Renaissance Hotel, Orlando, Florida

        1986- 1995              Little Big Band Music Productions (own business)

                                           Conventions- Orlando area, Scandinavian World Cruises, 

                                           Mt. Dora Art Festival, Images Festival, New Smyrna Beach, Florida               

                                           Responsible for procuring work, hiring of musicians, leading of

                                           performances, payroll, and acquiring, developing, maintaining library

        1989-1991               MGM Studio Sax Quintet

        1989                        Wayne Newton- U.S. and Canadian tour

        1988                        Grand Floridian Hotel Band

        1987                        Melissa Manchester- Florida tour

        1985-1986               Contractor of Musicians- Premier Cruise Lines, Cape Canaveral, Florida

        1984-1985               Princess Cruise Lines, Los Angeles, California

        1983-1984               Norwegian Caribbean Lines, Miami, Florida

        1980                        Glenn Miller Orchestra- U.S. and European tour

THEATER                     

Westside Story, Singing in the Rain, Lady Be Good, Can-Can, Guys and Dolls, Bye-Bye Birdie, Grand Hotel, Teddy and Alice, Gypsy, Anything Goes, Timbuktu, Annie Get your Gun, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (McKnight), Merrily We Roll Along (Guthrie Lab)

BACK-UP FOR SHOWS             

Susan Anton, Frankie Avalon, George Burns, Red Buttons, Dianne Carrol, Carol Channing, Charo, Rosemary Clooney, Vic Damone, Duke Daniels, Phyllis Diller, Lola Falana, Eddie Fisher, The Four Aces, The Four Tops, Frank Gorshin, Bob Hope, Jack Jones, Shirley Jones, The King Sisters, Carol Lawrence, Rich Little, Al Martino, The Marvelettes, Andrea McArdle, Jim Nabors, Bob Newhart, Helen O'Connell, Donald O'Conner, Patti Page, Martha Raye, Lou Rawls, Bobby Rydell, Dinah Shore, Kaye Starr, Enzo Stuarti, The Temptations, Tommy Tune, Jerry Vale, Frankie Valli, Bobby Vinton

OTHER APPEARANCES            

Pastiche –CSB/SJU Faculty Ensemble 10/01, Many performances with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra ’96-‘99, Florida Orchestra- Tampa,  Cleveland Civic Orchestra, Ohio Ballet, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Montreaux Jazz Festival, Nice Jazz Festival, Akron Jazz Workshop,

RECORDINGS

"The You In Me" -Solo Album

(Listen at:) http://www.livemusicjazz.com/CD_page.htm

MEMBERSHIPS          --American Federation of Musicians

TEACHING

            2005-2006               Private Instruction –St. Louis Park High School

        2004-2005               My Music –Golden Valley, Minnesota

        2000-2003               Instructor of Applied Woodwinds- Adjunct

                                        College of Saint Benedict/St. John's University

                                        St Joseph/Collegeville, Minnesota

        1991-1992               Private instrumental Instruction, Orlando, Florida

        1979-1980               Graduate Assistant Jazz Studies -University of Akron

        1974-1978               Cleveland Supplementary Educational Center -Cleveland, Ohio

                                        Individual and group instruction in music.

EDUCATION

        1983                        Master of Music, Performance Clarinet (Concentration: Woodwinds)

                                        University of Akron, Akron, Ohio

        1979                        Bachelor of Music, Performance Saxophone

                                        University of Akron, Akron, Ohio

                                        Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory, Berea, Ohio

                                        Eastman Jazz Workshop

1993                        Master of Library and Information Science

                                        University of South Florida- Tampa, Florida