University of North Texas 
MM, Euphonium Performance, 2011
Birthday: November 25, 1982
Hometown: Mechanicsburg, PA
High School: Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School
Awards and Honors:
-2nd Place, Leonard Falcone International Euphonium Artist Competition, 2010
-Semifinalist, International Tuba Euphonium Conference Euphonium Artist Competition, 2010
-Semifinalist, Leonard Falcone International Euphonium Artist Competition, 2008
Previous Degrees and Universities:
-Bachelor of Music in Music Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2007
Professional Organizations:
-Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Professional Music Fraternity
Goals: happiness
Favorite quotes: "What is optimism? It's the passion for maintaining that all is right when all goes
wrong with us." - Voltaire
"The place God calls you is where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."
- Fredrick Buechner
"'And this is another accident,' I think to myself, 'that we have ears to hear, and
that nature itself worked perfectly to calm the soul, and wind from a tornado has
that perfect pitch of fear, that train rumble of death, and music, music, if it is
an accident, may be one of the greatest miracles of them all, as beautiful as romance
or color or the power of water." - Donald Miller
Favorite euphonium solo: Euphonium Concerto, by Linkola