Interlochen Arts Academy, 1965 (high school)
University of Michigan (BM in Music Education), 1969
University of Southern California (MM in Trumpet Performance), 1971

Teaching Experience - Present

1973 to Present
Director of Bands, California Institute of Technology, Concert Band Director, Occidental College, Duties include conducting a concert band, two jazz bands, and various wind chamber music groups

Teaching Experience - Past

California State Fullerton
California State Los Angeles
Biola College

1990 to 2005
Professor of Trumpet, California State University Northridge

Produced and Conducted the Following CDs for Caltech
  1996 - "Exothermic Jazz", featuring the Caltech Jazz Bands
  1997 - "TECHnically Sound", featuring the Caltech-Occidental Concert Band
  2000 - "Crowd Pleasers", featuring the Caltech-Occidental Bands

Performer (trumpet) on the Following Recordings
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra - Haydn Symphonies, No 82 and 104 Christof perick, concductor
  Los Angeles Philharmonic - Janacek "Sinfonnetta", Andre Previn, conductor
  Various Movie Scores

Awards

1991 - "Excellence in Teaching" award from the Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology
1992 - "Music Educator of the Year"  award from the Pasadena Area Youth Music Council
2002 - Honorary Membership in the Alumni Association of the California Institute of Technology

Professional Experience Trumpet

1971 to Present - Performed as guest trumpet player with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale Orchestra, Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, Los Angeles

Trumpet member of the Modern Brass Quintet

Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, California Philharmonic, and various movie and television scores.

Conductors

Performed Under the Following Conductors
Andre Previn, Helmut Rilling, Simon Rattle, John Adams, Henry Mancini, John Williams, Neville Mariner, Christopher Hogwood

Publications

1998 - Fundamentals for Brass,  Balquhidder/Carl Fischer
1998 - Emotion and Music, Journal of the World Association for Symphonic Bands
1992 - Masterclass for Trumpet, "Windplayer Magazine"
1990 - The Bing Book for trumpet, Whipple Music
1976 - "A Scientific Study of Pulmonary Function as Applied to Brass Playing", The Brass Bulletin