Faculty Bios

Director and Founder. Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 1991- 2024. B.M., Baldwin Wallace University. Primary  Teachers include James Darling, William Vacchiano, Phillip Collins and Mary Squires.

Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2023. B.M. Manhattan School of Music, M.M. The Juilliard School. Primary Teachers include Raymond Mase, Barbara Butler and Charles Geyer.

Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 1996.  B.M., University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Primary Teachers include Phillip Collins and Micheal Sachs.

M.M. Colburn Conservatory, P.S.C. Colburn Conservatory, B.M. Eastman School of Music, Acting Assistant Principal Horn , Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Visiting Assistant Professor (Horn), Miami University

Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2008. B.A., Yale and M.M., Juilliard. Principal Teacher, William Purvis.

Member of the CSO since 1991.

Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 1982. B.M. and M.M., University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, Principal Teacher, Michael Hatfield.

Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 1999. B.A., National University of Music (Bucharest, Romania), M.A., Carnegie Mellon. Principal teachers include Byron McCulloh, Rebecca Cherian and Joseph Alessi.

Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2015. A.D., Juilliard. M.M., DePaul University and B.M. University of Texas at Arlington. His primary teachers include Joseph Alessi, Mark Fisher, Jay Friedman, Charles Vernon, Darren McHenry, Dennis Bubert and Andrew Russell.

Associate Director. Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2024. B.M. Indiana University.

B.M., from the University of Central Florida, and a M.M., from the Juilliard School. Member of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2016. Primary teachers include Warren Deck, Abe Torchinsky and Joseph Alessi.

M.M Miami University, B.M. University of South Florida, Instructor of Tuba, Miami University

Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2015. A.D., Juilliard. M.M., DePaul University and B.M. University of Texas at Arlington. His primary teachers include Joseph Alessi, Mark Fisher, Jay Friedman, Charles Vernon, Darren McHenry, Dennis Bubert and Andrew Russell.

Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2024. B.M. Indiana University.

D.M.A. Ohio State, M.M. Florida State, B.M. Florida State, Assistant Professor, Director of Bands at Miami University.

Faculty at Miami University since 1997. B.A., A.D. and Performers Certificate, Indiana University. M.M., University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.

Faculty at Miami University since 2024. B.M. and M.M. Bowling Green State University., D.M in Wind Conducting