For seven seasons, he served as Assistant Music Director of the Marrowstone Music Festival, conducting both the Festival and Concert Orchestras.  As Music Director of the Houston Youth Symphony and Ballet, he led successful collaborations of music with dance, a joint concert with the New Philharmonic Junior Orchestra of Osaka-Kobe, a joint concert with the San Antonio Youth Orchestra, and a heralded two week European concert tour to Holland, Germany, and Austria.  He has also led the CAMMAC Orchestra, The Vancouver Chamber Players, the Scott Joplin Chamber Orchestra, the University of Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Michigan Youth Arts Festival Orchestra, the All Michigan Honors Orchestra, and the Western Michigan University Symphony Orchestra.