Teaching and Professional Experience

Teaching Experience        

1975 -1976  Hamilton City Schools, Hamilton, Ohio
• Instrumental Music Teacher

1976 – 1978 Northridge Local Schools, Johnstown, Ohio
• Instrumental Music Teacher

1980 – 1985  Wyoming City Schools, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Instrumental Music Teacher

1993 – 2002  Lecturer, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
• Assistant Marching Band Director, Music Theory

1998 – 2007 Lecturer, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
• Director, Miami University Marching Band, Oxford, Ohio
• Music Theory
• Music Composition

2007 –present Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Courses Taught at Miami University

MUS 106, Marching Band
MUS 109, Athletic Bands
MUS 151/252, Sight Singing and Dictation (freshman)
MUS 251/252, Sight Singing and Dictation (sophomore)
MUS 101/102, Music Theory (freshman)
MUS 202/202, Music Theory (sophomore)
MUS 277, Music Composition (sophomore independent study)
MUS 377, Music Composition (junior independent study)
MUS 402, Arranging & Electronic Music Notation
MUS 502, Graduate Level Arranging & Electronic Music Notation
MUS 358, Marching Band Techniques
MUS 610, Graduate Research in Music Composition
MUS 611, Graduate Research, final project
MUS 630, Music Composition (independent study)
Student Teaching Supervision

Other Professional Experience

1975 – 2008  Free Lance Music Composer & Arranger

1985 – 1991  President, Music on the Move of Ohio, Inc.
• Consultant in music education for private and parochial schools

1989 – 2004   Senior Adjudicator, Drum Corps International

1990 – 2004   Senior Adjudicator, Drum Corps Mid-west

1991 – 2004   Senior Adjudicator, Bands of America

1990 – 1999   Conductor, Hamilton Concert Band

An overview of the man behind the music.