• M.M,  Central Washington University
• B.S. Music, University of Mary

 

In the second grade, my mom told me, “You’re going to start taking piano lessons, and you WILL take them until you graduate from high school.” That’s how it started, and I’ve been playing music ever since. After a consecutive run of high school, college, grad school, and a year of teaching inner city elementary music, I moved up to Alaska and started teaching here at APU in 1997.

 

I believe that loving our work is one of the most important things we can do for ourselves. It makes us happy. Teaching and playing music at APU has truly fulfilled me as a person, and turning students on to the joys of music continues to reaffirm my decision to be a music teacher.

 

Things that I want to be: a “rock star,” on the Olympic Fencing Team, a sponsored snowboarder, a downhill mountain bike racer, a “first ascent” guy on some peak, a guest artist/clinician at a jazz festival thousands of miles away, an author, lazy, a movie star, an inspiring teacher, and a seeker of truth.