Education
Born in Kentucky, he was raised on a tobacco farm in rural Breckinridge County. In 1996, he attended the Kentucky Governor"s School for the Arts and later the University of Louisville, graduating with a B.M. in Music Performance. He received his M.M. in Orchestral and Opera Conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, having studied with Imre Palló, Thomas Baldner, David Effron and John Poole.
He later received a Master"s Degree in Contemporary Music Performance from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (HfMDK) Frankfurt/Main.
In 2006-2007, he was Artistic Apprentice of the American Opera Projects in New York City.
In 2008-2009, he was conductor of the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie in Frankfurt, Germany where he worked with conductors Péter Eötvös, Stefan Asbury, Hans Zender, Heinz Holliger, Georges-Elie Octours and Franck Ollu. In 2008/9, he was Music Director of the Ensemble Modern / IEMA production of Kurt Weill"s «Die Dreigroschenoper» at the Schauspiel Frankfurt.
