I am the Associate Director and Professor of Music at the Fred Fox School of Music at the University of Arizona. In addition, I am a Yamaha Performing Artist who has performed and taught throughout the US, Europe, Japan, Korea, China, and Mexico. My releases can be heard on the Naxos, Albany, Toccata Classics, Gault, and Citadel labels.My performing includes ensemble work as principal flutist of the Champaign-Urbana, Midland-Odessa, and Johnstown symphony orchestras. I've also performed as a member and soloist with the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, Dallas Bach Society, Dallas Wind Symphony, Abilene Philharmonic, Keystone Wind Ensemble, and the Tucson Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist, I perform throughout the U.S., Europe, Korea, Japan, and China including concertos with orchestras in the U.S. and the Republic of Korea. I, as well as many of my current and former students, have been a featured artist at music festivals of the National Flute Association, British Flute Society, Shanghai International Exposition, Soka International Harp Festival, Texas Flute Society, Florida Flute Association, Mid-South Flute Society, Las Vegas Flute Club, Albuquerque Flute Association, Flute Society of St. Louis, Arizona Flute Society, and Tucson Flute Club. My discography includes the premiere recordings of works by Daniel Asia, Anatoly Boyarsky, Christopher Caliendo, William Mathias, Carrol McLaughlin, Anthony Plog, Jack Stamp, Hans Winterberg, and Galina Smirnova. I've won top prizes in the National Flute Association, Myrna Brown, Mid-South, and Kingsville International young artist competitions. My experience teaching in seven universities and colleges in Texas, Illinois, and Pennsylvania and top Texas high school and middle school music education programs led me to create novel and effective pedagogies that integrate sports psychology, bio-kinetic training, and historically-accurate performance practice in flute performance training. Beyond musical performance, I teach students and educators the use of quantitive measurement tools and rubrics to compliment existing qualitative assessment. In particular, I've developed a system of training the ephemeral musical performance aspects of tenuto, rubato, dynamics, détaché, and phrasing, among many others, through student-centered DAW project creation. Because of my curricular design, my students continued to develop their musical skills with little or no interruption during the COVID-19 pandemic mitigation that led to careers in the music industry.