So I play oboe, as I’m sure is obvious. I studied with Dick Dorsey, former principal of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Tech Talk:
I play one of these guys, and it’s amazing. I make and play Philadelphia-school reeds. I use an original Mack tip, and whatever cane I can get my hands on, very indiscriminately. My knives are Landwell and Bhosys.

The Artist as a Performer:
I’m not much of a performer, as far as orchestral music and traditional solo repertoire go, but I am an improviser, and I love to play new music.

Here is an improvised jam with Matty Rivers-Moore:

Piece for Electronics and Improvised Oboe

I asked three of my composer friends to write me miniatures.

Anyway, as it happened, they all decided to call their pieces after vegetables. Narim Kim wrote me a piece called doraji which is a Korean bellflower root, Amanda Lowry wrote me Artichokes which is a classy piece, and Jennifer Lynn del Duca wrote a piece called Radicchio. I premiered them in a concert in late fall at WLU.

I currently play with the new Canadian chamber group, Ansae and in occasional improvisation house concerts with the Three Pints.