Born:
Toronto, Ontario

Degrees and Studies:
B.M., Canberra School of Music; postgraduate diploma, Berlin Musikhochschule. Studies with Chi-Chi Nwanoku.

Biographical Information:
In 2003 became principal double bass with Boston's Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuous performing-arts organization in the U.S. Has worked with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Aulos Ensemble, Handel and Haydn Society, Washington Bach Consort, English Baroque Soloists, and performed in London regularly for 10 years as a member of Florilegium (Baroque ensemble-in-residence at Wigmore Hall) and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Festivals: Salzburg, Baden-Baden, Aldeburgh, Glyndebourne, and the London Proms with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Christopher Hogwood, Sir Roger Norrington, and others. Concerto soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (including Bottesini's Passiona Amorosa with bassist Gary Karr); recitals in Europe, the U.S., and Australia. Recordings for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, EMI, Virgin, ABC Classics, and Channel Classics. Faculty, Penn State U., since 1999; founder and director of the university's Baroque Ensemble.

The Juilliard School:
Faculty since 2009.