CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Big Ten Academic Alliance Music Education Conference - 2026
Presentation: “From ‘What’ to ‘How’: Institutional Pressures and the Challenge of Curricular Reform in Music Education
National Association for Music Education (NAfME) National Biennial Conference - 2026
Poster Presentation: “The Educational Contributions of Clair Omar Musser”
International Society for Music Education (ISME) World Colloquium - 2026
Presentation: “From Waste to Sound: An Eco-Pedagogical Pilot-Study Bridging Creativity, Sustainability, and Community”
Instrumental Music Teacher Educators (IMTE) Colloquium - 2026
Presentation: “Shaping Our Future: Teaching Instrumental Music Teachers and A.I.”
Poster Presentation: “Unmasking with A.I.: From Painted Faces to Sonic Portraits in Reflective Practice”
Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Annual (PMEA) Conference - 2026
Presentation: “The Jazz Rhythm Section: A Guide to Navigating Slash Notation”
Society for Music Teacher Education (SMTE) Symposium - 2025
Poster Presentation: “Navigating Curricular Change: A Music Education Case Study at The Pennsylvania State University”
Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Annual (PMEA) Conference - 2025
Poster Presentation: “Perception of Metric Modulations in Collegiate Musicians”
The City University of New York’s Graduate Students in Music Conference - 2025
Presentation: “The Jazz Sideman as a Working-Class Symbol: ‘Philly’ Joe Jones, Civil Rights, and Fame”
North Dakota Music Educators Association Annual Conference - 2023
Performance: VCSU Percussion Ensemble, Director
Such Sweet Thunder: Ellington Plays Shakespeare, Columbia University - 2022
Presentation: “When Ellington Met Fargo: How a Performance Shaped a City and a Career”
Miles Davis and John Coltrane at 90 Conference, University of Surrey, UK - 2016
Presentation: “Philadelphia’s John Coltrane House: The Reciprocal Impressions of Coltrane and the Strawberry Mansion Neighborhood”
Society for American Music’s 40th National Conference - 2014
Presentation: “Historically Overdubbing ‘Philly’ Joe Jones: One of Jazz’s Most Recorded Musicians”
Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic - 2013
Presentation: “Microtime in Jazz Drumming: The Beat-Upbeat Ratios of ‘Philly’ Joe Jones”