Personalized Instruction!

Composition/Arranging Lessons!

With experience in jazz performance, lead trumpet playing, and ensemble direction, I offers private trumpet lessons focused on building strong fundamentals, musical confidence, and stylistic versatility. Lessons are tailored to each student’s goals and can include tone production, range development, improvisation, jazz articulation, music reading, and ensemble preparation. Through a supportive and practical teaching approach, students are encouraged to develop both technical skill and personal musical expression. 

Pricing: $50/hr or $30/halfhour

Composition/Arranging Lessons!

I offer arranging and composition lessons focused on developing creative musical ideas into fully realized scores and performances. Drawing from experience in jazz composition, big band writing, and ensemble leadership, lessons explore harmony, orchestration, voicing, form, score study, and stylistic writing for both small and large ensembles. I have written music for performers and educators including Bill Cunliffe, David Binney, Clay Jenkins, Dave Stryker, and Barclay Moffitt, among others. Students can learn how to write for jazz combo, big band, brass ensembles, and contemporary groups while also building skills in notation software, melodic development, and rehearsal preparation. Lessons are designed to support each student’s individual musical interests while encouraging originality, creativity, and a deeper understanding of musical structure and expression.  

Pricing: $50/hr or $30/halfhour