Instrument/Position:
Double bass
Education:
Bachelor of Music and Master of Science, San Francisco State
Joined the Symphony:
1978
Other orchestras/ensembles/festivals you have or currently play with:
San Francisco Opera and Ballet, Skywalker Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, Mendocino Music Festival, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Theatreworks Traveling Broadway Shows
Most memorable musical experience:
Conducting the Nutcracker with a bass part for a score and a xylophone mallet for a baton when the conductor failed to appear.
If you weren’t a musician, what would you be doing:
Probably would have pursued a career in medicine.
Hobbies:
Hiking/camping, walking, word puzzles, softball
Favorite vacation spot:
Lake Luzerne in upstate New York
What three things can always be found in your refrigerator:
Cold water, something with chicken in it, mushrooms
If you could give one piece of advice to your younger self, what would it be:
Practice!
Do you have a “bucket list” piece of orchestral music that you have yet to play:
Shostakovich’s The Execution of Stepan Razin
