Teaching
All my students in the UNT Concert Orchestra Viola Section Spring 2014
I joined the faculty at the University of North Texas College of Music in the Fall semester of 2011, where I teach viola and chamber music. The Viola Department at UNT currently enrolls around 30 violists from around the world, pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in Viola Performance, Music Education, Historical Performance, and related fields such as conducting, music medicine and composition.
Since 2014, I have spent the summer as Associate Director of the Summer String Institute at UNT, in addition to traveling to teach in Honduras, Vietnam, and Brazil, and to play chamber music and do community outreach in Iowa.
In past summers I have taught at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival (2013, 2014), the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts (2008-2012), and the Raphael Trio Chamber Music Workshop (2008, 2010, and 2012.) This workshop takes place at High Mowing School in Wilton, NH, which is a very special place.
In Brazil, it has been my pleasure to travel yearly to coordinate gatherings of violists in cities such as Porto Alegre, Brasília, Uberlândia, and Florianópolis. From 2007 to 2014, I was coordinator of String Faculty and Chamber Music at Festival de Cordas Nathan Schwartzman in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, a festival based on community outreach that grew over nine years to serve 400 participants each year. In 2015 I was an invited guest teacher at the Encontro Nacional de Violistas in João Pessoa, Paraíba.
My students have gone on to successful placements in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (UK), Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra (IN), and to teach in England, Texas, Georgia and Virginia. They have gone on to study at Juilliard, Indiana, Cleveland Institute of Music, and University of Maryland, among others, and have achieved "distinction" in the examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (UK).
Since 2014, I have spent the summer as Associate Director of the Summer String Institute at UNT, in addition to traveling to teach in Honduras, Vietnam, and Brazil, and to play chamber music and do community outreach in Iowa.
In past summers I have taught at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival (2013, 2014), the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts (2008-2012), and the Raphael Trio Chamber Music Workshop (2008, 2010, and 2012.) This workshop takes place at High Mowing School in Wilton, NH, which is a very special place.
In Brazil, it has been my pleasure to travel yearly to coordinate gatherings of violists in cities such as Porto Alegre, Brasília, Uberlândia, and Florianópolis. From 2007 to 2014, I was coordinator of String Faculty and Chamber Music at Festival de Cordas Nathan Schwartzman in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, a festival based on community outreach that grew over nine years to serve 400 participants each year. In 2015 I was an invited guest teacher at the Encontro Nacional de Violistas in João Pessoa, Paraíba.
My students have gone on to successful placements in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (UK), Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra (IN), and to teach in England, Texas, Georgia and Virginia. They have gone on to study at Juilliard, Indiana, Cleveland Institute of Music, and University of Maryland, among others, and have achieved "distinction" in the examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (UK).
“The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits, the aspirations and ideals of people, in the way it makes itself a part with the finer things that humanity does and dreams of.”
Charles Ives
