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This weekend Pacific Symphony opened their 35th Anniversary Season with Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto! I’ve been lucky enough to work at Pacific Symphony’s box office for the past six and a half years – it has afforded me great opportunities for Third Wheel to perform at events such as opening weekend. The cocktail and dinner […]

Fall is just about here, and it has me in the mood to be in the kitchen! My schedule has kicked into full-gear insanity. When it gets this hectic, I really love to cook up a big recipe and then instantly, I have leftovers to eat for the entire rest of the week! This week, […]

During Second Sundays at Firefly Bistro Third Wheel has the chance to play a variety of music from our gig books and play music that we have arranged or has been arranged for us.  Some of my favorite pieces are “I Want You Back” by The Jackson 5, “Carinhoso” by Pixinguinha, and “Blackbird” by the Beatles. […]

As most of our fans, friends, and family know, we’ve been lucky enough to secure a regular gig at Firefly Bistro in South Pasadena. Regular gigs are hard to come by, particularly when you play in a woodwind trio! We’ve coined it “Second Sundays” and it is a once-a-month opportunity to relax and hear live […]

  As a free-lance musician I have several jobs.  It is very interesting work and definitely keeps me busy.  I want to share a few of those with you today. I’m happy to announce that I have been hired at Chapman University as adjunct professor of bassoon beginning this Fall! I will be coaching chamber […]

What have I been listening to lately?! Well, I love a variety of different music ranging from pop to alternative and dance music. As a classically trained musician I can always learn from artists in other genres and apply what I hear to how I play the flute. It’s really important to understand rhythms and […]

Last week I was an instructor at a week long camp for bassoon and oboe players at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Bocal Majority.  I led master classes, chamber music and reed-making to 16 bassoon players.  We also performed daily faculty recitals.  It was  a blast! It was my good fortune to be teaching with bassoonist Leslie […]

Greetings from Salzburg, Austria! This week Eugene and I visited the home and birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The apartment the Mozart’s lived in was quite spacious for the time. There were many artifacts on display: letters to his wife from the road,  manuscripts, paintings of him and his wife, and the original clavichord that […]

On the first of July my family and I made a trip to Arizona to get my sister settled into her new home in Surprise, AZ.  It was no surprise that it was very hot, however we were there for a heat wave with record breaking temperatures! In order to beat the heat we found a man […]

Happy 4th of July Weekend! This weekend I’m enjoying some time with family and friends and celebrating America’s Birthday! Last night got me a little teared up during the Armed Forces Salute at the Pacific Symphony concert. The piece is a medley of all of the marches from the different branches of the military. Seeing […]