Introduction: Music director/educator/performer who excels at analyzing, prioritizing, and building musical performances in a creative and professional manner. A keen judge of talent consistently recognized for enthusiastically making the correct musical judgements as a performer arranger, as well as an educator/conductor. â¨â¨Knowledgeable, and experienced in all styles of music, instrumentation, and music theory including; vocal/string line writing, the development of relative pitch, use of chord scales and the emotion of intervals to develop the art of improvisation. Having studied line-writing with Herb Pomeroy, improvisation with John Laporta, world music with Charlie Mariano, and having been a professional who has performed. arranged, taught and recorded music for 50 years