Trombonist who was a member of the Peace Lutheran Church’s Brass of Peace Scholarship Program for Gifted High School Students in Annandale, Virginia, from 1995 to 1997.
He entered Harvard to undertake his further education and became a member of the Harvard Brass, performing on their holiday recording Christmas in the Busch.
From 1997 to 2000 he performed as a member of the Harvard Theater’s Orchestra in productions of The Mikado, Don Giovanni, The Elixir of Love, Iolanthe, Der Freischutz, The Gondoliers, H.M.S. Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance. He was a member of the Heliodor Trombone Quartet in 2000 and 2001.
Also in 2001 he was a member of the orchestra at the Massachusetts’ Institute of Technology Gilbert & Sullivan Players production of The Grand Duke which was marking 100 years since it was first staged at MIT.
The Harvard Brass recordings
Adeste Fidelis (Frederick Oakeley/John Francis Wade)
Pro Organo CD 7134 (Christmas in the Busch)
The Harvard University Choir
Conductor – Murray Forbes Somerville
Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra
Director – Robert Mealy
Soprano – Awet Andemicael
Bass – Mark Risinger
Organists – Erica Johnson and Edward Jones
Here is the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra…
Sources:
- http://www.brassofpeace.org/pastmembers.htm
- http://lowell.harvard.edu/Newsletters/v23/LoHoNews23-18.pdf
- http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~arts/af2001/fair.html
- http://web.mit.edu/gsp/www/Archive/2001spring_duke/
- http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hrdc/htdb/displayperson.php?personid=1263
- CD Line Notes: Christmas in the Busch