Assistant Concertmaster

Birthplace: Corvallis, OR

Grew up: Seattle, WA

Started playing: Age 4

Education: B.M. Eastman School of Music, M.M. Boston University

Began with PSO: 1998 (?) the first time, before a move to Virginia, and then again in 2005

Non-PSO Activities: Vermont Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, teaching at Middlebury College, various chamber music groups

Favorite music: Beethoven string quartets

In my iPod: Lots of chamber music, lots of Beethoven, a bunch of audiobooks, a lot of Gillian Welch, a bunch of bluegrass, enough latin-inspired jazz to make it through a long drive or cocktail hour, and "inspirational" bits like the soundtracks to the Kill Bill movies

Hobbies: Driving?