Where are you from originally?
Fairfield, Illinois

How many years in the symphony?
17 years

All time favorite piece to perform? To listen to?
Prokofiev Symphony No.5; Bruckner Symphony No. 8

 

Favorite spots around town?
Tortugas Pizza, Dreamland BBQ and Stardome Comedy Club 

Funniest orchestra story?
Showing up to a POPS rehearsal to see that, instead of a chair, our stage manager had provided me with a prop bathtub.  

 

Scariest orchestra moment?
Tipping over backwards in aforementioned bathtub (with bathtub in tow).

Desert island playlist?
Bach Cello Suites- Yo Yo Ma
Bruckner Symphony No. 8- NDR/Wand
Hindemith- San Fransisco/Blomstedt
KISS- Double Platinum
Mahler Symphony No. 3- New York/Bernstein
Mozart Piano Concerti- Alfred Brendel/Marriner
Portsmouth Sinfonia plays the Popular Classics
Star Wars Trilogy- Skywalker Symphony/Williams
Van Halen I- Van Halen