In August 2025, I began an organ masters at CCM, with an expected graduation date of May 2027. My studies with Dr. Michael Unger are also inspired by choral conducting. This degree was long in deciphering and I anticipate it to be the final of four degrees including the DMA. This will also be accompanied by certification. “Reach for the stars”, they said. Let’s reach for the reeds!

Update: In 2026, I became a Colleague of the American Guild of Organists and look forward to further certification in the coming year.

As of December 2023, I call both Cleveland and Harrison home as I assume the appointment of Director of Music, Choirmaster, and Organist at St. John the Baptist Church in the Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati. At this expansive facility completed in 2019, I cultivate ensembles and present repertoire on a Schantz originally located at University of Cincinnati’s Probasco Auditorium.

I have had the privilege of participating in uncompromising repertoire activities of The Cleveland Orchestra and participated in their 2023-24 season both at Blossom Music Center and at Severance Hall. The season included Nobuo Uematsu’s Final Fantasy, Milos Forman’s Amadeus, Eric Whitacre’s moving The Sacred Veil, and William Walton’s stirring Belshazzar’s Feast. The season concluded with a Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival performance of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in May 2024.