Recently he conducted the opening concert of the Guelph Spring Festival, one of Canada’s oldest classical music festivals, featuring the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.  That performance included the World Premiere of And the Children Shall Lead by composer Jeffrey Ryan.  The work was a special commission from the Millennium Arts Fund of the Canada Arts Council.  Other recent engagements include the Sphinx Symphony,  Plymouth (MI) Symphony, the Prince George’s Philharmonic, the University Symphony Orchestra at the University of Michigan, the Washington, Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, Maryland, Alaska, and North Dakota All State Orchestras, the All Northwest Orchestra, and a fully staged production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors.