Performance Experience
Jazz and Folk Styles:
Jazz and Folk Styles:
- Performance with Four Other Brothers at Jazz Showcase in Chicago, December 2013
- Live studio recording of Chris Reyman Trio, November 2013
- Pianist with Craig Russo’s Latin-Jazz Ensemble, ongoing
- Contemporary Church Music Pianist, ongoing
- Pianist with Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, October 2013
- Accordionist with Almost A Quintet: gypsy-jazz ensemble, ongoing
- Pianist and Accordionist with Tangotta: tango music ensemble, ongoing
- Accordionist with Don’t Ask: klezmer and Eastern-European music, ongoing
- Performance on Millikin University Faculty Sampler Recital, August 2013
- Album release: Cumin Seed and Peppercorn with Almost A Quintet, 2012
- Performance with award winning guitarist Robert Michaels (robertmichaels.com), August 2012
- Performance on Millikin University Faculty Sampler Recital, August 2011
- Performance on Community Center for the Arts Faculty Recital, December 2011
- Accordion Improvisations, December 2011
- Michael Meadows album release, The First Four Billion Years Are the Hardest, 2011
- Kevin Elloitt album release, It’s a Circus Here, Dolores, 2010
- Faculty Recital - Chris Reyman Trio, Millikin University, 2009
- Pianist with Glenn Miller Orchestra, summer 2009
- Pianist in the University of Illinois Concert Jazz Band, the top jazz ensemble (2004 to
2008), performances at Notre Dame Jazz Festival, University of North Texas
Jazz Festival, I.A.J.E. convention in New York (2006), recorded CDs As of Yet (2007) and Get Here Sooner (2005) - Performances with Chip McNeill, Jim Pugh, Tito Carrillo, Morgan Powell, Willie Aiken, Ron Bridgewater, Cecil Bridgewater and Glenn Wilson
- Pianist in University of Illinois’ top jazz combo, 2004-2006, performance at University of
North Texas Jazz Festival - Pianist in University of Illinois’ Latin Jazz Band, 2007, performance at IAJE convention in Toronto
- Performance with David “Fathead” Newman, 2006
- Performances with Scott Air Force Jazz Band, 2006
- Pianist in University of Texas’ top jazz band, 2003-2004, performances at Montreaux Jazz Festival and North Sea Jazz Festival
- Pianist in University of Texas’ top jazz combo, 2003-2004
- Member of Millikin University Jazz Band I for four years, performances at Elmhurst Jazz Festival, Notre Dame Jazz Festival and Illinois Music Educator’s Association
- Student Recitals: Master’s recital (Spring 2006), Senior recital (Spring 2003), Junior elective recital (Spring 2002), Sophomore elective recital (Spring 2001), Freshman elective recital (Spring 2000)
- Performances at North Sea Jazz Festival and Montreaux Jazz Festival in 1998 as member of MacArthur High School Jazz Band
- Performances with Compost Q (interdisciplinary dance and music improvisation ensemble) at Roosevelt University and throughout the Champaign-Urbana area with highly accomplished performers Kirstie Simson, Erik Lund and Dorothy Martirano, ongoing
- In2improv~improvise.play.live - music and dance collaborative with University of Illinois dance faculty Sandra Paola López, improvisatory and composed performances and workshops (in2improv.com), ongoing
- Member of CoLab (ensemble combining music, dance and engineering performers), 2011
- Member of University of Illinois East-West Ensemble (Gamelan-jazz fusion, music and dance), 2007-2008, performance at Bali Arts Festival in Denpesar, Bali
- Pianist with the Heartland Festival Orchestra, January 7, 2012
- Guest Accordionist for November Dance piece by Philip Johnston, 2011
- Pianist for Nancy Hoffman’s One-Woman Mikado at the Virginia Theatre, November 18, 2011
- Performance of John Cage’s Credo in US at the Illinois Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society at McKendree College, Lebanon, IL, March 13, 2010
- Premier of compositions by Juri Seo and Taylor Briggs, 2007
- Pianist for Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra Pops Concert, 2006