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Lesson with my teacher, Mathieu Dufour, at his home in Chicago. 

May 2007

2007 recipient of the John Philip Sousa Award at Adrian High School. 

Photo: Ms. Lori Wittenkeller, Director of Orchestras at Adrian High School, and Mr. Howard Stukey, Director of Bands. 

I participated in the COFA 2007 Flute Festival at Ohio State with masterclasses by Robert Aitken and Peter Lloyd.  (Photo with Peter Lloyd, working on Faure Fantasie.)

I was nominated for the Michigan Youth Arts Festival Outstanding Soloists Concerto Competition and the Michigan State Honors Band. 

I played with Los Gringos Latin Salsa Band in Ann Arbor on April 12 at the Firefly Club , and performed at the Adrian High School Jazz Festival on April 17.

March 2007

The studio recital will be at St. John's Jesuit High School in Toledo, Ohio.

I'll be playing jazz flute on Thursday nights in March at 7pm at the Coffee Exchange Community Coffeehouse, 107 North Main Street in Adrian, Michigan.  Check their webpage for the live music schedule.

February 2007 

I'm looking forward to music school auditions in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana.

Solo recital at the Adrian Dominican Life Center,  Kelly Hill Kretzer's studio recital in Maumee, Ohio, performance at Adrian College Musical Perspectives.

December 2006 

Lenawee County Honors Band at Adrian College, Christmas benefit recital for Associated Charities in Adrian. 

August 2006

Off to Seattle to work with the amazing baroque flutist Kim Pineda, and I visited family in Vancouver, BC.

July 2006

The tour with the International Youth Symphony Orchestra was amazing.  We played in Austria, Germany and France, as well as concerts in the Chicago area and Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan.