Music Residency/Academia 

I served 5 years as associate professor in the Ensemble Department at Berklee School of Music (Boston) and currently teach at The New School College of Performing Arts  (New York City).  I was also Artist in Residence at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont for 2 years.

I have considerable experience giving lecture-demonstrations, master classes and residencies of 1-5 days time, which I have presented for the past 25 years, including work at the following schools:

 Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA)
Oberlin Conservatory (Oberlin, OH)
Manhattan School of Music (New York, NY)
The New School/Mannes School of Music (New York, NY)
University of California (San Diego, CA)
Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Graz Conservatory (Graz, Austria)
Rotterdam Conservatory (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music (Brooklyn, NY)
Australian Institute of Music (Sydney, Australia)
New England Conservatory (Boston, MA)
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana, IL)
Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, IL)
Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada)
University of Montana (Bozeman, MT)
Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX)
Sibelius Academy (Helsinki, Finland)
Scuola Internazionale di Liuteria (Cremona, Italy)
Hartt School of Music (Hartford, CT)
Auroville International Community (Auroville, India)
Pittsburgh State College (Pittsburgh, KS)
University de Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Artist in Residence at NYC’s La Guardia High School of the Performing Arts from 1991-1994

I enjoy teaching very much and would like to increase the number of short-term residencies I do in conjunction with concert appearances. I have private students who have traveled from all over the world to study with me in Brooklyn.


Class Descriptions

Here is a list of topics I offer:
1. The Challenge of World Music for the Creative Musician
2. Course in Extended Technique for Woodwinds (This can be geared for instrumentalists, composers or both)
3. Group Improvisation– Idiomatic and ‘Non-Idiomatic’ approaches
4. Developing a Solo Program as a Composer/Performer
5. Finding Your Creative Voice as a Composer/Performer
6. Non-Western Music, a Subjective Listening List.