Collaborative Pianist and Coach

08/2008 to Present
Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Tenure-track position as Coach/Collaborative Pianist in the Vocal Area, involving private coaching, classroom teaching, and opera preparation.

06/2009 and 08/2009, 06/2008
Faculty position at Lied Austria in Leibnitz, Austria. Intensive international summer training programme for singers offers innovative instruction in the German Lied. Position includes instructing German diction, giving masterclasses, private coaching (singers and pianists), and weekly performances in the surrounding area.

09/2004 - 06/2008
Staff collaborative pianist in the Voice Studies department at the University of Toronto. Instructor for undergraduate course "Lyric Diction" (German) in 2007.  Additional duties included playing for courses “Song Interpretation” and "Oratorio Ensemble Class", as well as performing in recitals, masterclasses, and lessons.

02/2000 - 08/2008
Freelance collaborative pianist performed in recitals, masterclasses, and competitions in the Toronto area.  Vocal coach in the studios of Lorna MacDonald, Mary Morrison, Jean MacPhail and Dr. Darryl Edwards at the University of Toronto. Provided weekly private coaching for singers, specialising in art song repertoire.

09/2001 - 05/2002
Part-time faculty appointment at York University as a vocal coach for Italian and German diction classes, and accompanist in the studio of Stephanie Bogle.

09/1999 - 06/2002
Piano accompanist for Creative Artist Productions (Stephanie Bogle) and The Vocal Art Forum (Peter Neff). All involved regular workshops specialising in a particular genre or composer.

08/1997 - 08/1999
Freelance piano accompanist for music students at the Hochschule für Musik Köln in Cologne, Germany. 

10/1996 - 07/1997
Teaching assistantship as piano accompanist and vocal coach at the Hochschule für Musik “Franz Liszt” Weimar in the studio of Ulrike Fuhrmann. Responsible for coaching of French and Italian diction.

Opera Répétiteur

2008 – Present
Head coach for the Opera Theatre at the University of Mississippi (Director: Julia Aubrey, Conductors: Dr. Robert Aubrey, Dr. Ronald Vernon). Responsible for the musical preparation, coaching, and diction for the opera scenes programme “From the Met to Broadway and Back Again” (2008), and the opera Carmen (2009, R. Aubrey/Vernon).

11/2007
German coach and répétiteur for the Opera Division at the University of Toronto, under the direction of Stephen Ralls. Responsible for the complete preparation of German diction for a concert production of Die Zauberflöte.

07/2006
Opera coach and répétiteur for the inaugural Toronto Summer Music Academy and Festival, under the direction of Maestra Agnes Grossmann. Responsible for the musical preparation, recitative coaching, and Italian diction for production of Mozart's Don Giovanni. 

09/2005 - 12/2007
Opera coach and répétiteur for the Opera Division at the University of Toronto, under the direction of Sandra Horst.  Responsible for coaching and preparing the diction for productions of Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (2005), Die Fledermaus (2006), and L’elisir d’amore (2007).

09/1999 - 03/2000
Opera répétiteur and diction coach for Toronto Opera Repertoire (Giuseppe Macina). Performed six performances of Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) and Rigoletto (Verdi).

Artistic Director

2004 - Present
Artistic Director of "In recital", a concert series consisting of three recitals designed to both cultivate the art song and showcase Canadian singers. Each recital is held at the Heliconian Hall in Toronto, Ontario. Past performers include Colin Ainsworth, Michèle Bogdanowicz, Leslie Ann Bradley, Ariana Chris, Jesse Clark, Melinda Delorme, Carla Huhtanen, Peter, McGillivray, Jennie Such, Krisztina Szabó, and Giles Tomkins.

Masterclasses

02/2010
Invited to present a vocal masterclass on German Lied at the University of South Dakota
in Vermillion, SD.

1991 - Present
Performed in masterclasses with Elly Ameling, Dalton Baldwin, Helmut Deutsch, Jonathan Feldman, Gerald Finley, Irene Gubrud, Wolfgang Holzmair, Jorma Hynninen, Rudolf Jansen, Malcolm Martineau, Susanne Mentzer, Ken Merrill, Walter Moore, Carmen Pelton, William Sharp, Raoul Sosa, Kendall Taylor, Robert Tear, and Edith Wiens.

11/2007
Invited to present two vocal masterclasses on art song repertoire at the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Ontario.

Professional Development

07/2005
Collaborative pianist at the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden, Austria. Performed with Jennie Such (soprano) and Jason Nedecky (baritone) in three public concerts and daily masterclasses with Elly Ameling, Rudolf Jansen, Helmut Deutsch, Edith Wiens, Wolfgang Holzmair, Jorma Hynninen, Walter Moore and Robert Tear.

07/2004
Collaborative pianist at the Oxenfoord International Summer School in St. Andrews, Scotland, working with Malcolm Martineau. 

07/2003, 07/2002
Collaborative pianist at the Academie Internationale d'Eté de Nice working with Dalton Baldwin. Intensive course for singers and pianists entitled “Interprétation Chant et Piano” with a primary focus on French mélodie.

08/2002
Advanced Italian immersion at Bolognalingua in Bologna, Italy.

06 - 08/2000
Scholarship pianist at the Aspen Music Festival, as part of the collaborative artists programme (Rita Sloan).

05/1998
Italian language course for 4 weeks at Torre di Babele (Centro di lingua e cultura italiana) in Rome, Italy, receiving certificate at intermediate level

09/1993
Prüfung zum Nachweis der deutschen Sprachkenntnisse, PNdS (German Language Proficiency Examination Certificate) issued by the Ruprecht Karls - University of Heidelberg, Germany

Awards & Grants

2009
College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Mississippi. Awarded
to complete a single-authored book project in the field of lyric diction (value: $7500)

2005
Chalmers Professional Development Grant on behalf of the Ontario Arts Council.  Awarded to attend the world-renowned Franz-Schubert-Institut to work with masters in the fields of German Lied and collaborative piano (value: $9000)

2004
Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant (Professional Musicians) awarded for professional development project working with Malcolm Martineau, Rudolf Jansen and Martin Isepp on art song repertoire (value: $7000)

2003
Award for Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work (shared with Peter McGillivray, baritone) (value: $1000)

2001 - Present
Accompanied prize winners at various competitions including the Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition (Brandon, Manitoba), MET Competition (Buffalo, NY), Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques (Montréal, Québec), NATSAA (Albion, Michigan), NATS (Toronto, Ontario, London, Ontario, Natchitoches, LA), Canadian Music Competition (Sherbrooke, Québec)

1993
Ontario/Baden-Württemberg Graduate Scholarship in Music (value: $1500)

1991
George Maybee Memorial Scholarship for Academic Excellence (value: $900)