Student Accomplishments

Competition Winners:

Grand Prize: American String Teacher Association (ASTA) National Solo Competition
1^st prize: ASTA, Senior division (3), Junior division (1)
1^st prize: International Society of Bassists (ISB) Classical Solo Competition (2)
1^st prize: ISB Orchestral Competition
1^st prize: ISB Jazz Bass Competition
1^st prize: Mozart - Japan International Chamber Music Competition
Excellence Award, 2013 Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition, Hong Kong
2^nd Prize, American Protégé Competition, New York
Grand Prize, Fischoff Chamber Music Competition (2)
2^nd Prize, Coleman Chamber Music Competition

Competition Semi-Finalists:

International Orchestras:

Basque National Symphony Orchestra, San Sebastian, Spain (Principal Second Violin)
Bogota Philharmonic, Colombia
Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra, Hungary
Cape Town Philharmonic, South Africa
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, England
Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, Croatia (Principal Cello)
Durbin Philharmonic, South Africa
Hangzhou Symphony, China
Hong Kong Philharmonic
Magdeburg Philharmonic, Germany
MAV Symphony Orchestra Budapest, Hungary (Concertmaster)
Melbourne Symphony, Australia
National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
New Seoul Philharmonic, South Korea
Orquesta Filarmonica de Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Chile (Concertmaster)
Orquesta Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
Polish Chamber Philharmonic
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Stockholm, Sweden (2^nd Concertmaster)
Royal Symphony, South Korea
Shanghai Opera, China
Sinfonietta Cracovia, Poland
Singapore Philharmonic
Stockholm Sinfonietta, Sweden
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan
Trondheim Symphony, Norway (Principal bass)
Vancouver Symphony, Canada (Principal bass, Section bass and cello)
Xiamen Philharmonic, China
Former students also hold positions in the national symphonies of: Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Canary Islands and New Zealand and numerous smaller American, European, South American and Asian orchestras

US Orchestras:

Akron Symphony
Alabama Symphony
Austin Symphony
Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, (Concertmaster
Baltimore Symphony (Associate Concertmaster, principal 2^nd violin, section violin)
Boise Philharmonic
Canton Symphony
Charleston Symphony
Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Colorado Springs Philharmonic
Colorado Symphony (Principal bass)
Columbus Symphony
Dallas Chamber Orchestra
Dallas Opera Orchestra (Principal viola, bass, Assistant Principal cello and section violin, viola, cello and bass)
Dallas Symphony (Principal cello, section violin and bass)
Florida Philharmonic
Ft. Worth Symphony
Grant Park Symphony
Honolulu Symphony (Principal bass and section bass)
Houston Ballet
Houston Symphony
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Kansas City Symphony
Louisiana Philharmonic (Assistant Principal bass)
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Miami Symphony (Assistant Concertmaster, Principal cello, section bass)
National Symphony (Associate Concertmaster)
New World Symphony (Principal bass and section violin and bass)
Opera of the Ozarks (Principal cello)
Oregon Symphony
Pittsburgh Symphony (Associate Principal bass)
San Antonio Symphony
Santa Barbara Symphony
Seattle (Associate Principal bass and section bass)
Spokane Symphony
Springfield Symphony, Massachusetts
Tacoma Symphony (Assistant Principal cello)
Tucson Symphony
Tulsa Philharmonic
US Military Bands (6)
Utah Symphony (Concertmaster)
Youngstown Symphony Orchestra

Baroque Ensembles:

US Teaching positions:

Texas Universities:

String Quartets and Ensembles

Alternative Styles:

Professional Regional Orchestras in which current UNT string students perform: