Timeline

1956 - joined “Cherub Choir” at church
1957 - started piano lessons
1961 - joined school band as a drummer
1966 - started first band “The Chilly Winds” folk quartet playing banjo and singing
1966 - started getting parts in school plays
1966 - for a short time, played rhythm guitar in a garage band “The Deadbeats”
1969 - began studying music theory at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
1970 - joined rock quintet “Standard Deviation”
1970 - joined college orchestra and band
1970 - joined St. Paul Civic Orchestra playing timpani
1971 - started highly successful rock trio “Tecumseh” playing drums and singing
1972 - joined Macalester College Festival Choir, directed by Dale Warland
1973 - had first performances with St. Paul Chamber Orchestra playing timpani
1974 - started grad school at New England Conservatory in Boston as Vic Firth student
1976 - got first grant of many for new music projects
1977 - finished grad school
1977 - resumed free-lance career in Minneapolis/St. Paul playing with St. Paul Chamber
Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, Plymouth Music Series, etc.
1977 - formed new music ensemble “Zeitgeist”
1984 - started teaching percussion at Macalester College
1989 - drumset etudes books published by major publisher
1993 - quit “Zeitgeist”
1994 - started “Helios”
2000 - moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, began free-lance work with Omaha Symphony,
Lincoln Symphony, Third Chair Chamber Players

2004 - started getting calls to play in the Kansas City Symphony as an extra/substitute, began playing with the newly established chamber group "New Music Agency" in Lincoln, snare drum etude books published by major publisher