MICRO-BIO

• Assistant Professor of Music at Barry University since 2010 teaching applied saxophone, woodwinds, music theory, History of Jazz, Experiencing Music (Appreciation), music composition, and Music and the Mind (music psychology). 

  Assistant Professor of Music at Barry University since 2010 teaching applied saxophone, woodwinds, music theory, History of Jazz, Experiencing Music (Appreciation), music composition, and Music and the Mind (music psychology). 

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EXPERIENCE

• Barry University

  • Assistant Professor of Music
  • Fine Arts
  • August 2010 to Present

• New World School of The Arts

  • Clinician/Instructor of Jazz
  • Jazz Division
  • August 2002 to Present

• Freelance performing musician

  • Musician/ Performer/Saxophonist
  • Self-employed
  • January 1984 to August 2010

EDUCATION

• University of Miami Frost School of Music

  • Doctor of Musical Arts
  • August 2006 to May 2009

  DMA in jazz studies. Doctoral essay topic "The Creative Process of Ira Sullivan" was phenomenological study and analysis of creative approach to improvisation by Chicago-born, Miami-based jazz multi-instrumnetalist Ira Sullivan.

• University of Miami - School of Music

  • Master of Music
  • August 1991 to May 1994

  Master of Music in Studio Music and Jazz Performance (Saxophone)

• University of Miami - School of Music

  • Bachelor of Music
  • August 1986 to May 1990

  Bachelor of Music in Studio Music and Jazz Performance (Saxophone)

Links

• Barry University - Fine Arts