​KUWAIT ENGLISH SCHOOL (KUWAIT)                                                                                                        2023-present

Head of Department, Primary Music

Music Director, KES Primary Choirs

Music Director, KES Senior String Orchestra

                  As Head of Department, I oversee the implementation of the British music curriculum by our teaching staff in the Primary Department. I also direct choirs from Year 2 – 6, conduct the KES Senior String Orchestra, and direct the soloists and ensembles in the Primary Department annual musical production. As part of my contribution to the school, I have rewritten the KS2 curriculum to align with current educational practices and have participated in creating a Year 1 – 13 standardized system of marking and assessment for the Music Department.

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ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (TURKEY)                                                                                                 2012-2017

CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN MUSIC (MIAM)

Music Director, MIAM Modern Music Ensemble

Faculty Lecturer, Orchestral and Choral Conducting

            This full-time position included instructing a variety of courses in the Master of Music Program. My conducting students have achieved significant conducting positions with the Tekfen Philharmonic Orchestra, Mugla Municipal Orchestra, Istanbul Film Music Orchestra, Sistema Istanbul Youth Orchestra, Magma Philharmonic Choir, and AG34 Choral Ensemble.

 

Conducting Program:

• Founded and developed the Master`s curriculum in conducting, including the following courses: Basic Conducting Techniques, Orchestral Conducting Techniques, Choral Ensemble Development, and Choral Conducting Techniques

General Program Courses:

• Foundation Ear Training Orchestral Performance Techniques, Introduction to Baroque Performance Practice, Chamber Music

Ensemble Direction:

• Music Director of MIAM Modern Music Ensemble. Duties included score commissioning, scheduling, concert production, programming, and conducting all rehearsals and performances.

• Numerous World/Turkish Premiers by composers Kamran Ince (USA), Onur Turkmen (Turkey), Pieter Snapper (Turkey), Reuben de Lautour (New Zealand), Christopher Trapani (USA), Ed Bennett (Ireland) and Eray Altinbuken (Turkey).

• Ensemble tour to Berlin, and CD release on Lila Muzik, `From Istanbul`.

 

ISTANBUL EUROPEAN CHOIR AND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA                                                                       2016-2017

Music Director

            As Music Director of the Istanbul European Choir and Chamber Orchestra, I conducted all rehearsals and concerts with the IEC, worked with the Board and Music Selection Committee, auditioned new members, and developed concert programs. During my tenure our repertoire included: Dvorak Stabat Mater, Vivaldi Magnificat, Faure Requiem, Jenkins Stabat Mater, Zelenka Missa dei Filii, as well as performing Mahler Symphony no. 2 with the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra (Greece).

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HEZARFEN ENSEMBLE (ISTANBUL)                                                                                                                   2012-2017

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE

Guest Conductor

            As Guest Conductor, I led Hezarfen in concerts and recordings in Istanbul and Ankara from 2012 to 2017. Hezarfen is Turley’s leading Contemporary music ensemble, and often collaborates with Klangforum Wein and the Icarus Ensemble. Most notably, concerts included participation in the AK Bank Jazz Festival (Hezarfen and Urodny), Goethe Institute “Marc Andre Portrait Concert”, Borusan Sanat American Music Festival, Academic Conference “Beyond East and West” (2016–2017), and the Bilkent Composition Academy as well as numerous student composition workshops and recordings.

 

NIKOLAEV PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY (UKRAINE)                                                                                           2013-2015

ARS NOVA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (String Orchestra)                               

Music Director                                                                                                       

Principal Guest Conductor                                                                                    

            This position included conducting all Masterworks and Light Symphonic concerts with the Ars Nova Chamber Orchestra in Nikolaev, Ukraine. Duties include season programming, guest artist selection, as well as conducting all sectionals, rehearsals, and concerts for programs in various different venues across Nikolaev.  Repertoire included music from the Baroque period to late Romantic period, with composers such as Vivaldi, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Puccini, and Vaughan Williams. Selected programs have been recorded live and were frequently aired on local television stations. 

 

BILKENT LABORATORY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL                                                                                       2009-2011

Music Director, BLIS Wind Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra

Performance Instructor, Grade 5-12

             This full-time position in the BLIS International Baccalaureate program and IGCSE program included conducting the BLIS Chamber Orchestra, BLIS Wind Ensemble in preparation for both the Winter and Spring Concerts, as well as teaching IB Music History, and preparing students for IGCSE Theory. I also assisted in instructing the Middle School music program, with a focus on brass and percussion techniques.

 

NATIONAL HSINCHU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION (TAIWAN)                                                                     2006-2009

Lecturer, Permanent Part-time 

Assistant Conductor, Wind Ensemble                                   

            As a part-time lecturer, and previous Guest Artist in Residence (2006), I taught courses in Baroque Music Appreciation, the Art of Performance, and private lessons in brass techniques. I conducted the Brass Ensemble, was Assistant Conductor of the Wind Ensemble, and performed a solo recital for the students and faculty.

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MEDICINE HAT COLLEGE CONSERVATORY                                                                                                    2003-2004

MHCO, Music Director, Music Instructor                                                           

            Music Director responsibilities included conducting the Medicine Hat Community Orchestra, adjudicating auditions, programming, advertising, and orchestra management.  Music instruction included teaching Royal Conservatory of Music Theory and History courses, private instruction of all brass students, as well as coaching and performing with the Conservatory Brass Quintet and Junior Brass Quintet.

 

THUNDER BAY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA                                                                                                         Jan. 2003

Assistant Conductor, Conductor Intern TBSO                                                                                                             2002

Conductor Intern TBSO, Interim Chorus Master                                                       

            Duties included conducting concerts in the Family, Education and Cabaret series at home and on tour, preparation of the 60-member chorus for concerts, and concert programming. Highlights included works such as Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite and Serenade, Handel's Messiah, selections of Bach's Magnificat, as well as choruses from Strauss's Die Fledermaus, as well as the world premier of Under the Moon with Aunt Birdie, by playwright Eleanor Albanese and composer Lise Vaugeois.

 

Conducting  

 

ORCHESTRAL AND INSTRUMENTAL

Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra                                                                                                                                      2024 University of Salford, ACGM, Contemporary Music Ensemble                                                                                  2018

Istanbul European Choir and Chamber Orchestra, Music Director                                                               2016-2018 Hezarfen Contemporary Music Ensemble                                                                                                          2012-2017

            Boursan Sanat American Music Festival,

            World Premier, Snapper – Song of Philomel

Yurodny Contemporary Music Ensemble                                                                                                         2014, 2017            Ankara International Music Festival

            World Premier, Turkmen – Sailing to Byzantium

MIAM Modern Music Ensemble, Music Director                                                                                               2012-2017

Ars Nova Chamber Orchestra, Music Director                                                                                                   2014-2015

Principal Guest Conductor, Ars Nova Chamber Orchestra                                                                               2013-2014

Kwartludium Ensemble/MMME (Poland), Guest Conductor                                                                                     2014

Hezarfen/Yurodny Contemporary Music Ensembles                                                                                         2012-2015

Pazardjik Philharmonic Orchestra, “Winter Nights Festival”                                                                 2008, 2010, 2012

Assistant Conductor, Kiev Arts Academy Orchestra                                                                                          2011-2012

BLIS Wind Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra                                                                                                         2009-2011

Bilkent Symphony Youth Orchestra                                                                                                                              2011

National Hsinchu University of Education Wind and Brass Ensembles                                                           2007-2009

Hsinchu American School Orchestra                                                                                                                            2006

Medicine Hat Community Orchestra                                                                                                                  2003-2004

Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Conductor, Chorus Master                                                       2002-2003

 

CHORAL

KES Primary Choirs, Kuwait                                                                                                                            2023-present 

Suzhou USTS Concert Choir, Suzhou, China                                                                                                               2016

Timmins Symphony Chorus (Ontario)                                                                                                                          2016

Rezonans Chamber Choir, Principal Guest Conductor                                                                                     2014-2015

Istanbul European Choir, Principal Guest Conductor                                                                                       2014-2015

A Cappella Group 34, Guest Conductor                                                                                                                     2014

British International School Choir, Kiev                                                                                                               2011-2012

Thunder Bay Symphony Chorus, Interim Chorus Master                                                                                  2002-2003

 

Euphonium/Bass Trombone/Tuba

 

ORCHESTRA

Ahmadi Music Group, Chamber Orchestra                                                                                                                 2024

Istanbul Film Music Orchestra (Principal Tuba)                                                                                                  2013-2015

Eskisehir Municipal Orchestra (Tuba)                                                                                                                  2013-2015

Borusan Filharmonic Orchestra, Euphonium solo, Ein Heldenleben                                                                        2014

Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Euphonium solo, Don Quixote                                                                                   2009

Hsinchu Philharmonic Orchestra (Tuba), Taiwan                                                                                                          2006

Bujeon Presbyterian Church Orchestra (Tuba), Busan, South Korea                                                                         2006

Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra (Trombone), ON                                                                                                  2002

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Awards and Scholarships

Suzhou City Choir Festival, First Prize (China)                                                                                                             2016

Andante Magazine, Donizetti Award, Chamber Music Ensemble                                                                            2014

                        Golden Horn Brass (Tuba)

Ontario Library Association Award,                                                                                                                              2014

                        Director, Summer Music Program

Three-Quarter Tuition Scholarship, Northwestern University                                                                                    1998

Highest Aggregate, Graduating Music Class UPEI                                                                                                     1997

Suzanne Brenton Award, guest soloist, PEI Symphony Orchestra                                                                             1997

Highest Award for Brass, Kiwanis Festival                                                                                                          1995-1996

Highest Aggregate, Music, sophomore, freshman, UPEI                                                                                 1994, 1996

Full Tuition Scholarship, UPEI                                                                                                                              1993-1997

   

Education

IPGCE, Tes, University of East London                                                                                                              April, 2025

PhD in Historical Musicology, University of Salford                                                                                                    2020

MMus Performance, Northwestern University                                                                                                             1999

BMus University of Prince Edward Island                                                                                                                     1997