Individual Sessions

Repertoire Development

Individualized work towards your musical goals, with an eye towards professional and musical development. Whether you're refining repertoire for a concert, preparing to record an audition tape, or looking for new ideas, I'd love to work with you. I can help you identify broader themes within your playing and connect the dots between technical challenges, interpretive goals, and musical communication. Similarly, I can help you develop the skills of skill development, blending design thinking, deliberate practice, and the power of generalization. Depending on needs and capabilities, these sessions can operate in a synchronous or asynchronous fashion.

Professional Development/Focusing

Individualized sessions developed around your goals and designed to meet your challenges. I want to help you think big about building community through your artistry while maximizing your potential. I specialize in helping you focus on new challenges by developing the skills of generalization.

Topics Include:

• Developing collaborations

• Curating, commissioning, and cultivating new work

• Goal setting

• Matching values and passions to careers

• Productivity

  • Time management

  • Deliberate Practice strategies

  • Applying the principles of Design Thinking to your professional identity

  • Goal setting

  • Positive Psychology

  • Deep Work

• Writing about music

  • Articles, dissertations

  • College essays

• Applying for academic teaching jobs

  • Resume/CV coaching

  • Cover letter refinement

  • Teaching portfolios

  • Phone interview prep

Group Sessions

Perhaps you have a GROUP of such people.  I'd be happy to speak with your cohort about a wide variety of issues, ranging from the tiniest percussion picayunes to larger issues facing our field. Building community through music is my passion, and I love working with chamber ensembles and larger cohorts.

Group Lessons:

I love working multiple musicians at once in the model of a European conservatory, great for students working on similar repertoire or developing similar skill-sets. As I student, I learned more from my peers in group settings than from my individual lessons. These sessions allow students who are to receive personalized instruction while developing a deeper understanding of repertoire and pedagogical practices, while maintaining a sense of community among distanced studio members.

Chamber Music Coaching

These coaching blend the pacing and rigor of a traditional chamber music coaching with the increased technological capacity of digital learning, allowing for a flexible experience that can meet a group at any stage of its development. I work with small or medium-sized percussion and mixed chamber ensembles, and review recordings, play live, or offer feedback in front of a larger audience.

Presentations

I give presentations designed to fill in the gaps within most percussion curricula, designed to help students unlock their individual potential through collaboration and expose groups to significant repertoire.  Although I tailor each presentation to the needs of the group, examples include: 

• Developing Percussive Expressivity

• Percussion repertoire 

• Representation in new percussion music 

• Developing chamber ensembles 

• Commissioning new works

•  Performing and recording with live electronics

I bring to all these sessions my broad experience as a percussionist, my expertise as a project planner, curator, and producer, and my interdisciplinary curiosity.  

Workshops

I present frequent workshops for composers about writing for percussion, including performances of brand new works and lectures on significant works for percussion. 

I bring to all these sessions my broad experience as a percussionist, my expertise as a project planner, curator, and producer, and my interdisciplinary curiosity.