Curriculum Vitae
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EDUCATION
Specialized Study
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching
2016 - Present Band/Orchestra Director - Langtree Charter Academy - Upper School, Mooresville, NC USA
2015 - 2016 Adjunct Music Faculty - Rowan Cabarrus Community College, NC USA
2014 - Present Strings Instructor - Gaston School of the Arts, Gastonia, NC USA
2011 – 2014 Orchestra Director/Strings Instructor – Gaston School of the Arts, Gastonia, NC USA
2010 – Present Principal Conductor and Co-Founder – Lake Norman Youth Orchestra, Cornelius, NC USA
2010 – 2015 Band/Chorus Instructor & Conductor – Community School of Davidson High School, Davidson, NC, USA
2009 – Present Adjunct Faculty, Music – Mitchell Community College, Statesville,NC USA
2006 – 2010 Principal Conductor and Co-Founder – Cornelius Youth Orchestras, Cornelius, NC USA
2005 – 2010 Orchestra Director, Strings Instructor – Cannon School, Concord, NC, USA
1999 – 2003 Spanish/English Instructor Assistant – Ivy Tech, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
1987 – Present Private Tutor - Violin
1987 – 1989 Substitute Teacher – Music and Math - Elementary and Junior High levels, Indianapolis Public Schools, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
1985 – 1987 Director & Conductor of Merida Youth Orchestra, Merida, Venezuela
1983 –1984 Spanish Teacher Assistant, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Additional Professional Experience:
Performing/Conducting
2020 - Present Founder & Principal Conductor - The Lake Norman Philharmonic, Mooresville, NC
2008 -2020 Conductor – The Lake Norman Orchestra, Mooresville, NC
2010 - 2014 Orchestra Director - Gaston School of the Arts, Gastonia, NC USA
2010 - 2013 Conductor – Lake Norman Youth Orchestra, Cornelius, NC
2007 Tenor Soloist - Suscepit Israel, from Magnificat by G.Pergolesi, with Orchestra ensemble, First Presbyterian Church,
Concord, NC
Violinist - Dido & Aenas - 2007 UNCC Opera Production, Charlotte, NC
Co-Producer/Director – Musical Production, From Bernstein to Broadway, Black Box Theatre, Cannon School, Concord, NC
Tenor Participant - Choir of Choral Directors, singing Memorial Anthem at Metropolitan Music Ministries 22nd Annual Celebration of Music in Worship, Providence Baptist Church, Charlotte, NC
Tenor Soloist - Cantos De Las Americas, Songs of the Americas, Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramirez. Performed with Carolina Voices at St. Gabriel Catholic Church and at University City United Methodist Church, Charlotte, NC
Tenor Soloist - My Lovely Celia by George Munro Voice Master Classes - UNCC National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), Belk Theatre, Charlotte, NC
2006 – 2010 Orchestra Conductor, Director and Founding Member, Cornelius Youth Orchestras, Cornelius, NC
2006 Tenor Soloist with Charlotte Civic Orchestra – Handel’s Messiah
Tenor Soloist – First Presbyterian Church, Concord - Jesus My Joy by J.S. Bach; Ave Maria by Biebl
2005 – Present Tenor/Soloist, First Presbyterian Church, Concord, NC
2005 Guest Conductor, Second Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis
Performer, Indianapolis Opera Company – Lucia di Lammermoor
2004 Performer, Indianapolis Opera Company – Rigoletto, Barber of Seville, Madama Butterfly
2001 Indianapolis Opera Company – Il Trovatore, Cast Role of “Messenger”
1998 to 2005 Tenor Section Leader, Indianapolis Second Presbyterian Church
1997 Performer, Indianapolis Opera Company - Othello
1987 – 1997 Northminster Presbyterian Church – Tenor Soloist
1987 – 1988 Violinist, Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis
1985 – 1987 Director and Conductor, Merida Youth Symphony Orchestra, Merida, Venezuela
1985 Tenor Soloist, The Indianapolis Arts Chorale
1981 – 1985 Violinist, Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis
Additional Experience:
Recording:
As Conductor and Director – Cornelius Youth Orchestras : Holiday of Hope (CD)
Cornelius Youth Orchestras: Noel! Again We Say Noel! (CD)
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony Recorded with the Saint Teresa del Niño Jesus Choral Group
Schola Cantorum: Anthology of the Venezuelan Madrigal, Vols. I and II , Works of the Guido D’Arezzo Contest, Christmas Carols, Catalan Music, Songs of Venezuela, French Music
Second Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, IN: Rejoice (CD) - Forty-one Titles including: Be Thou My Vision - Jubilate Deo - Walk as Children of Light - How Firm a Foundation - Nearer, My God, To Thee - Set Me as a Seal - Let All the World in Every Corner Sing - Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee - Lord of the Dance - Festival Piece on "Saint Anne" - Bell Carol - Now Thank We All Our God.
As Conductor and Director: Carmina Burana by Carl Orff with 100 voices and 60 instrumentalists (televised). The performance was repeated in the Teatro Teresa Careño, Caracas in the same year. Beethoven’s Third Symphony; Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and the Egmont Overture Peter and the Wolf – Prokofiev
Concert Tours:
Lake Norman Orchestra: European Tour to Vienna and Salzburg, Austria as part of the American Celebration of Music in Austria. Performed in Vienna at Minoritenkirche and Franz Josef Hall in Bad Ischl, Austria
Second Presbyterian Sanctuary Choir: European Tour to France and Switzerland. Performed in Montreux, Vitznau, Strasbourg Cathedral, Reims, Chartres Cathedral, and Paris, France
Second Presbyterian Sanctuary Choir: European Tour through Italy and Austria. Highlights included concerts at the Chiesa Santa Maria dei Ricci, Florence; Chiesa dei Miracoli, Venice; and Basilica di San Marco, Venice.
Artistic tour as a member of the National Youth Orchestra: Mexico (twice), Ecuador, Columbia (twice), Isla de Guadalupe, England, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal Tours with different Choral groups and orchestras throughout South America: Maracay, Valencia, Barquisimeto, Coro, Maracaibo, Merida, San Cristobal
Philharmonic Choral Group of Caracas: Artistic tour to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Schola Cantorum de Caracas: Artistic tour to Italy, Spain, France and Austria Artistic tour to Yugoslavia, Germany and Italy
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020 - Present Founder & Principal Conductor, The Lake Norman Philharmonic, Mooresville, NC
2008 - 2020 Music Director/Conductor, The Lake Norman Orchestra, Mooresville, NC
2010 - Present Orchestra Conductor, Director and Founder, Lake Norman Youth
2008 Summer Voice Master Classes – Salzburg, Austria
2006 – 2010 Orchestra Conductor, Director and Founding Member, Cornelius Youth Orchestra
2005 – 2016 Tenor, First Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Choir
1998 – 2005 Tenor Section Leader, Second Presbyterian Sanctuary Choir
1987 – 1996 Tenor Section Leader, Northminster Presbyterian Sanctuary Choir
Other: -Organized budget and conducted the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra – Tenth PanAmerican Games in joint effort with Butler
Symphony Orchestra and Kitchener- Waterloo Symphony Orchestra (Ontario, Canada)
-Participant developer and organizer of the first Fiesta Indianapolis Program
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
RELATED SKILLS, CERTIFICATION, MEMBERSHIPS
Skills
EDUCATION
- Boston University – Additional studies in Music Education - 2008
- M.M. Music Theory, Butler University – Jordan College of Fine Arts – August, 1985
- B.A. Music, Butler University – Jordan College of Fine Arts - May, 1984
Specialized Study
- Orchestra Conducting Technique Master Class under the direction of Maestro Ennio Nicotra, Ilya Musin Society Commune di Mirano, Mirano, Italy
- 2014 and 2015 International Conductors Workshop and Competition under the direction of Maestro Adrian Gnam and Maestro Robert Gutter, Atlanta, Georgia
- Choral Music Workshop - University of Miami Frost School of Music, under the direction of Alberto Grau.
- Violin study with Hidetaro Suzuki, former Concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
- Voice study master classes under the direction of Helena Lazarska, Professor of Music at the University of Music, Vienna, Austria, Founder and Artistic Director of the Polish Voice Festival and the International "Ada-Sari-Voice-Art-Competition". Ms. Lazarska has taught at the Music Conservatories in Kato- wice, Gdansk, Krakow, at the University of Music Mozateum, and at the University of Music in Vienna.
- Voice study under the direction of Andre Aerne, Jordan College of Fine Arts, Indiana
- Conducting study under the direction of Jackson Wiley, Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis Music Director Emeritus, while at the Jordan College of Fine Arts, Indiana
- Master Class of Music with emphasis on Claudio Monteverdi and Venezuelan Masters as Schola Cantorum member in Jeunesses Musicales, Groznya, Yugoslavia
- Orchestra Master Class and Music Appreciation at Aberdeen University, Scotland
- Choral Conducting under the direction of Alberto Grau, founding director of the Schola Cantorum of Caracas and the University Orfeón Simón Bolivar, Professor and Training unit commander of Choral Direction of the University Institute of Musical Studies – IUDEM; participant in the Project of the Small Singers of the Schola, and Head of the Division of Sinfo'nico-Corales Assemblies of the Foundation Youthful National Orchestra of Venezuela.
- Conducting, teaching and coordinating orchestra activities under Jose Antonio Abreu, Goodwill Ambassador for Music and for Peace of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) within the Orquestra Nacional Juvenil de Venezuela system (the Venezuelan National System of Children’s and Youth Orchestras and Choirs)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching
2016 - Present Band/Orchestra Director - Langtree Charter Academy - Upper School, Mooresville, NC USA
2015 - 2016 Adjunct Music Faculty - Rowan Cabarrus Community College, NC USA
2014 - Present Strings Instructor - Gaston School of the Arts, Gastonia, NC USA
2011 – 2014 Orchestra Director/Strings Instructor – Gaston School of the Arts, Gastonia, NC USA
2010 – Present Principal Conductor and Co-Founder – Lake Norman Youth Orchestra, Cornelius, NC USA
2010 – 2015 Band/Chorus Instructor & Conductor – Community School of Davidson High School, Davidson, NC, USA
2009 – Present Adjunct Faculty, Music – Mitchell Community College, Statesville,NC USA
2006 – 2010 Principal Conductor and Co-Founder – Cornelius Youth Orchestras, Cornelius, NC USA
2005 – 2010 Orchestra Director, Strings Instructor – Cannon School, Concord, NC, USA
1999 – 2003 Spanish/English Instructor Assistant – Ivy Tech, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
1987 – Present Private Tutor - Violin
1987 – 1989 Substitute Teacher – Music and Math - Elementary and Junior High levels, Indianapolis Public Schools, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
1985 – 1987 Director & Conductor of Merida Youth Orchestra, Merida, Venezuela
1983 –1984 Spanish Teacher Assistant, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Additional Professional Experience:
- Secondary School Teacher – Music - Maria Immaculada School, Caracas, Venezuela
- Secondary School Teacher – String Ensemble - Tiguitiguito School - Maracay, Venezuela
- Secondary School Teacher – Musical Group and String Ensemble - Calicanto School of Maracay, Venezuela
- Secondary School Teacher – Theory and Solfeggio - Jose Lorenzo Llamozas School of Music. String Ensemble Instructor, Caracas, Venezuela
- Taught theory and solfeo and directed musical groups in high schools throughout Caracas, Venezuela
Performing/Conducting
2020 - Present Founder & Principal Conductor - The Lake Norman Philharmonic, Mooresville, NC
2008 -2020 Conductor – The Lake Norman Orchestra, Mooresville, NC
2010 - 2014 Orchestra Director - Gaston School of the Arts, Gastonia, NC USA
2010 - 2013 Conductor – Lake Norman Youth Orchestra, Cornelius, NC
2007 Tenor Soloist - Suscepit Israel, from Magnificat by G.Pergolesi, with Orchestra ensemble, First Presbyterian Church,
Concord, NC
Violinist - Dido & Aenas - 2007 UNCC Opera Production, Charlotte, NC
Co-Producer/Director – Musical Production, From Bernstein to Broadway, Black Box Theatre, Cannon School, Concord, NC
Tenor Participant - Choir of Choral Directors, singing Memorial Anthem at Metropolitan Music Ministries 22nd Annual Celebration of Music in Worship, Providence Baptist Church, Charlotte, NC
Tenor Soloist - Cantos De Las Americas, Songs of the Americas, Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramirez. Performed with Carolina Voices at St. Gabriel Catholic Church and at University City United Methodist Church, Charlotte, NC
Tenor Soloist - My Lovely Celia by George Munro Voice Master Classes - UNCC National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), Belk Theatre, Charlotte, NC
2006 – 2010 Orchestra Conductor, Director and Founding Member, Cornelius Youth Orchestras, Cornelius, NC
2006 Tenor Soloist with Charlotte Civic Orchestra – Handel’s Messiah
Tenor Soloist – First Presbyterian Church, Concord - Jesus My Joy by J.S. Bach; Ave Maria by Biebl
2005 – Present Tenor/Soloist, First Presbyterian Church, Concord, NC
2005 Guest Conductor, Second Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis
Performer, Indianapolis Opera Company – Lucia di Lammermoor
2004 Performer, Indianapolis Opera Company – Rigoletto, Barber of Seville, Madama Butterfly
2001 Indianapolis Opera Company – Il Trovatore, Cast Role of “Messenger”
1998 to 2005 Tenor Section Leader, Indianapolis Second Presbyterian Church
1997 Performer, Indianapolis Opera Company - Othello
1987 – 1997 Northminster Presbyterian Church – Tenor Soloist
1987 – 1988 Violinist, Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis
1985 – 1987 Director and Conductor, Merida Youth Symphony Orchestra, Merida, Venezuela
1985 Tenor Soloist, The Indianapolis Arts Chorale
1981 – 1985 Violinist, Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis
Additional Experience:
- Violinist, Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, Caracas, Venezuela
- Chorus Director, Santa Teresa del Niño Jesus School, Venezuela
- Band and Orchestra Conductor, Rios Reina 2nd. Summer Course, Tachira, Venezuela
- Solo Violinist, The Pied Piper of Hamelin: Opera Theatre of Maracay, Venezuela Concerts as solo violinist, Jose Angel Lamas Superior School of Music, Caracas, Venezuela
- Violinist, Orquesta Musica Antigua, Venezuela
- Guest solo violinist, Rubio House of Culture,Tachira, Venezuela
- Guest solo violinist, Rios Reina House of Culture, Tachira, Venezuela
- Orchestra Director, Rios Reina 1st. Summer Course, Tachira,Venezuela
- String Ensemble Director, Calicanto School, Maracay, Aragua State, Venezuela
- String Ensemble, Director-Founder, Tiguitiguito School, Maracay, Venezuela
- Director-Founder and Coordinator, Jose Lorenzo Llamozas String Ensemble, including vocal works, Caracas, Venezuela
- Juan Mauel Olivares School of Music Choral Group, Venezuela
- Schola Cantorum de Caracas Choral Group, Venezuela
- Orfeon La Gran Colombia, Soloist
- Founding Member, Philharmonic Choral Group of Caracas
Recording:
As Conductor and Director – Cornelius Youth Orchestras : Holiday of Hope (CD)
Cornelius Youth Orchestras: Noel! Again We Say Noel! (CD)
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony Recorded with the Saint Teresa del Niño Jesus Choral Group
Schola Cantorum: Anthology of the Venezuelan Madrigal, Vols. I and II , Works of the Guido D’Arezzo Contest, Christmas Carols, Catalan Music, Songs of Venezuela, French Music
Second Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, IN: Rejoice (CD) - Forty-one Titles including: Be Thou My Vision - Jubilate Deo - Walk as Children of Light - How Firm a Foundation - Nearer, My God, To Thee - Set Me as a Seal - Let All the World in Every Corner Sing - Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee - Lord of the Dance - Festival Piece on "Saint Anne" - Bell Carol - Now Thank We All Our God.
As Conductor and Director: Carmina Burana by Carl Orff with 100 voices and 60 instrumentalists (televised). The performance was repeated in the Teatro Teresa Careño, Caracas in the same year. Beethoven’s Third Symphony; Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and the Egmont Overture Peter and the Wolf – Prokofiev
Concert Tours:
Lake Norman Orchestra: European Tour to Vienna and Salzburg, Austria as part of the American Celebration of Music in Austria. Performed in Vienna at Minoritenkirche and Franz Josef Hall in Bad Ischl, Austria
Second Presbyterian Sanctuary Choir: European Tour to France and Switzerland. Performed in Montreux, Vitznau, Strasbourg Cathedral, Reims, Chartres Cathedral, and Paris, France
Second Presbyterian Sanctuary Choir: European Tour through Italy and Austria. Highlights included concerts at the Chiesa Santa Maria dei Ricci, Florence; Chiesa dei Miracoli, Venice; and Basilica di San Marco, Venice.
Artistic tour as a member of the National Youth Orchestra: Mexico (twice), Ecuador, Columbia (twice), Isla de Guadalupe, England, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal Tours with different Choral groups and orchestras throughout South America: Maracay, Valencia, Barquisimeto, Coro, Maracaibo, Merida, San Cristobal
Philharmonic Choral Group of Caracas: Artistic tour to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Schola Cantorum de Caracas: Artistic tour to Italy, Spain, France and Austria Artistic tour to Yugoslavia, Germany and Italy
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020 - Present Founder & Principal Conductor, The Lake Norman Philharmonic, Mooresville, NC
2008 - 2020 Music Director/Conductor, The Lake Norman Orchestra, Mooresville, NC
2010 - Present Orchestra Conductor, Director and Founder, Lake Norman Youth
2008 Summer Voice Master Classes – Salzburg, Austria
2006 – 2010 Orchestra Conductor, Director and Founding Member, Cornelius Youth Orchestra
2005 – 2016 Tenor, First Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Choir
1998 – 2005 Tenor Section Leader, Second Presbyterian Sanctuary Choir
1987 – 1996 Tenor Section Leader, Northminster Presbyterian Sanctuary Choir
Other: -Organized budget and conducted the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra – Tenth PanAmerican Games in joint effort with Butler
Symphony Orchestra and Kitchener- Waterloo Symphony Orchestra (Ontario, Canada)
-Participant developer and organizer of the first Fiesta Indianapolis Program
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
- Who’s Who in Venezuela
- Frailejonde Oro por Montaje de la Cantata Carmina Burana (Venezuela’s Highest Award for the Performing Arts)
- Diploma – Director, Founder and Technical Director of the Rios Reina 1st Summer Course of Music, Tachira, Venezuela
- Diploma – Venezuelan Concert Association, Jose Llamozas School of Music
- Diploma – Schola Cantorum de Caracas as member of the same
- Medal – Founding Member of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, Caracas, Venezuela
- Performance Diploma of the Jose Lorenzo Llamozas Musical Group, Maracay, Venezuela
- First Prize – Tenor member of the Schola Cantorum de Caracas, International Choir Competition, Guido D’Arezzo, Italy
RELATED SKILLS, CERTIFICATION, MEMBERSHIPS
Skills
- Fluent in English, Spanish with good knowledge of Italian.
- Computer literate using Microsoft Office and Educational Institution Software: Moodle, BlackBoard, Sibelius, Finale, SmartMusic, etc.
- North Carolina Professional Educator’s License - SPII - Highly qualified
- Private Pilot License
- The National Association of Music Education (MENC)
- The College Music Society
- Member, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA)