Highlights of my contracting career include providing musicians for Bernadette Peters, Bob Newhart, Marie Osmond, Smokey Robinson, Eddie Vedder, The St. Charles Singers, Video Games Live, and Mannheim Steamroller. My musicians have been seen at the Chicago Theatre, the Paramount Theatre, the Rialto Square Theatre, and the Rosemont Theatre.
I have appeared on recordings with Stevie Nicks, the Chicago Symphony and Milwaukee Symphony, the St. Charles Singers, and appear in the Faith Hill Christmas special as well as in Home Alone II.
I studied oboe and English horn at Northwestern University, Boston University, Northern Illinois University, and The University of Louisville.
My Experience
Here are the major concert events I have contracted.
Chicago Theatre:
Celtic Thunder (32 piece orchestra)
Video Games Live (27 piece orchestra)
If You’re Irish (56 piece orchestra)
Eddie Vedder (string quartet)
Paramount Theatre:
The Temptations (10 piece brass/reed)
Bernadette Peters (Jazz wind/brass/string orchestra - 28 piece)
Idina Menzel (53 piece orchestra)
Bob Newhart (10 piece jazz ensemble)
Marie Osmond (12 piece wind/brass ensemble)
Rat Pack Tribute Band (10 piece Vegas style band)
Bobby Vinton (10 piece strings, winds)
Mannheim Steamroller (10 piece orchestra)
Rich Little (jazz trio)
Smokey Robinson (8 piece string orchestra)
Lesley Gore, Bobby Rydell, Lou Christie (9 piece jazz band)
Wayne Newton (6 sidemen)
Joan Rivers (6 piece jazz band)
Jerry “The Iceman” Butler (7 piece band)
Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme (20 piece orchestra)
Lorna Luft (7 piece jazz band)
Rialto Square Theatre:
The Priests (5 piece strings)
Mannheim Steamroller (10 piece orchestra)
Midtown Men (2 brass)
Bobby Vinton (10 piece jazz orchestra)
Rosemont Theatre:
Mannheim Steamroller (10 piece orchestra)
Broadway Musicals Paramount Theatre:
My Fair Lady (23 piece orchestra)
Grease (7 piece band)
Music Man (18 piece orchestra)
Fiddler on the Roof (20 piece orchestra)
42nd Street (15 piece orchestra)
Miss Saigon (18 piece orchestra)
Rent (5 piece band)
Cats (16 piece orchestra)
Tommy (7 piece rock band)
Mary Poppins (16 piece orchestra)
Les Mis (15 piece orchestra)
Hair (11 piece rock band)
In The Heights (13 piece Latin band)
Joseph (15 piece orchestra)
Annie (18 piece orchestra)
A Chorus Line (17 piece orchestra)
Route 66 (3 piece rock band)
Oklahoma (18 piece orchestra)
Christmas Story (17 piece orchestra)
Hairspray (15 piece orchestra)
West Side Story (19 piece orchestra)
Choirs I contract orchestras for:
St. Charles Singers
Canterbury Chorus
Heartland Voices
Churches:
United Methodist Church of Geneva
Baker Memorial United Methodist Church
Unity Temple, Oak Park
First Unitarian Church, Chicago