| Description: | Music Instruction - Guitar
Offering Motivated Teaching, Training, and Performance Skills Education & Training
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY, Portland, OR
Pursuing: Master of Education: 2004 – Current (To be completed – Spring 2006)
*Teaching License K-12– (To be completed – June 2006)
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - STEVENS POINT, Stevens Point, WI
Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies/Performance, December, 2002
*John Radd Memorial Jazz Scholarship Recipient – 2001, 2002
Guitar Instruction:
Thomas McComb (UWSP-4.5 years);
Paul Silbergleit (Summer,2002);
Tom Theabo (1.5 years);
Joe Moreno (3 years)
Piano Instruction:
Mathew Buchman (1 year);
Dr. Charles Goan (2 years)
Specialized Curriculum
* Music Theory
* Jazz Improvisation
* Choir
* Jazz Keyboard Techniques
* Jazz/Orchestral Arranging
* Music History
* Composition
* Music Business
* Jazz Band/Combos
Teaching Experience
Student Teaching 1
- Tigard High School, Guitar Program – Fall term, 2005 – Jerry King
Student Teaching 2
- Lake Grove Elementary, K-6 general music – Winter term, 2006 – Kristy Hewitt
FORTE MUSIC SCHOOL, Portland, OR
Guitar Instructor - Fall 2004-Current
MIR MUSIC, Hillsboro, OR
Guitar Instructor – Winter 2003-Current
THE CONSERVATORY FOR CREATIVE EXPRESSION, Stevens Point, WI
Guitar Instructor – Fall, 1999-Winter, 2002
PRIVATE LESSONS: Summer, 1998 – Current
Music Experience
Recording: Stevens Point Jazz Ensemble - Tributary; Swingin’ Amiss – Speakeasy, Nostalgia - Nostalgia. Numerous live recordings and demos
•Previously Guitarist for Following Groups:
Haynor/Hitchcox Guitar Duo
Rich Man’s Burden
Swingin’ Amiss
Blues Broads
Jamie's Rock and Roll Legends
Nostalgia
Hip to That Quintet
UWSP Jazz Ensemble
Various UWSP Jazz Combos
•Performed with: Jim Walker, Andrew Bishop, The John Scofield Band, The Danger Project, John Fedchock
•First call Guitarist for the Rivercities Big Band
•Numerous years of winery, wedding, festival, market, restaurant, and bar gig experience.
•Performed in the Ides of March Music Festival – 2001
•Performed in the Stevens Point Jazz Festival – 2000, 2001
•Attended master classes given by: The Clayton Brothers, John Scofield, Andrew Bishop, David Burgess, The Nicholas Hoffman Quartet
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