Philosophy
My teaching philosophy is simple: access equals success. To me this phrase encapsulates the importance of a student’s access to information, good teaching, quality instruments, and performance opportunities to ensure them a more equitable chance of success.
As a performer I have volunteered many hours with community-based wind ensembles and orchestras, donated recitals and solo performances, and served on judging panels and committees. As a teacher I have worked in rural and inner-city settings to create access to learning and performance opportunities for students and help to secure financial support for these when there was a need.
Practice
In the past, my teaching experience was mainly private lessons for modern oboe and reedmaking lessons with students of all ages. Currently I am cultivating a small studio of beginning and intermediate Baroque oboe students and teaching reedmaking to advanced students and professional colleagues. My initial experience with teaching at a higher learning institution was as a student chamber music coach while attending the Townsend School of Music. I have since held university positions as a graduate teaching assistant at the College-Conservatory of Music and my faculty position at Georgia Southern University, where I taught a combined oboe and bassoon studio.
Experience
- 2024-Present Private Baroque Oboe Studio
- Teach beginning and intermediate Baroque oboe lessons
- Reed lessons for advanced students, professional colleagues
- 2023-Present LeerOrkest Nederland Oboe and Bassoon Docent
- Teach oboe and bassoon group lessons
- Manufacture oboe reeds for the oboe students
- 2019-2021 Georgia Southern University Instructor of Oboe and Bassoon
- Conducted lessons both online and in person
- Created curriculum, syllabi, technical exams and rubrics
- 2019-2020 University of Cincinnati Graduate Assistant Oboe
- Composed audition lists for ensemble rotations
- Created technical exams for studio
- Taught additional lessons to undergraduates
- 2018 Austrailasian Double Reed Society National Convention AU
- Master class clinician for oboe and bassoon attendees
- Adjudicator for the Young Talent competition
- 2016-2021 LTK/Charleston Oboe Camp Oboe Faculty Instructor
- Taught oboe lessons, chamber music skills, and reed making
- 2016-2017 Macon Symphony Youth Orchestra Woodwind Coach
- 2015-2017 Atlanta Music Academy Instructor of Oboe and Bassoon
- Host/Administrator, Georgia All-State Oboe Clinic
- 2012-2016 North Paulding High School Adjunct Double Reed Instructor