Speaking Engagements
(2024, June) Cross-cultural connections with military music. Educator Summer Institute: It’s Tricky: American Music & Culture, LBJ Presidential Library, Austin, Texas.
(2023, October) Military music across the ages: Cavalry music. Keynote address of the 73rd annual meeting of the Company of Military Historians, Peoria, Illinois.
(2022, July). Berlin, Andrews Barracks, and the 298th Army Band: A Memoir. Paper presented at the 2022 Historic Brass Festival of the Historic Brass Society, Northfield, Illinois.
(2021, June). Publishing reminiscences and advice from the field presented online for the Oxford Music Education Symposium, University of Mississippi.
(2019, October). Cavalry Kettledrummers, Trumpeters and Mounted Bands: Rome, the Crusades, Europe, and the Americas for the University of Iowa Musicology, Music Theory and Composition Colloquium.
(2018, October). Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums for the Selim Center for Lifelong Learning, McNeely Hall, University of St. Thomas.
(2018, May). Concert-lecture with Douglas Orzolek and the University of St. Thomas Symphonic Band featuring music from Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums at the Minnesota History Center.
(2018, January). Author reading and presentation on Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums at the Scottish Home for the Chicago Scots.
(2018, February). Author reading and panel discussion on Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums in the Great Hall of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library with panelists Matthew George, Sarah Schmalenberger and David Williard.
(2017, June). U.S. mounted bands from their bases within middle eastern and European traditions through the Mexican War. Paper presented at Symposium on the History of Music Education, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(2016, November). European cavalry and court kettledrummers and trumpeters. Paper presented at Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini: Music and Power in the Baroque Era, Lucca, Italy.
(2016, July). The U.S. Army mounted band tradition: Spanish-American War to World War I. Paper presented at Historic Brass Society Early Brass Festival, Northfield, Minnesota.
(2016, January). Middle Eastern and European cavalry kettledrummers and trumpeters: Crusades to the eighteenth century. Paper presented at Balzan Research Project, Towards a Global History of Music, Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria.
(2016, March). Music and mounted bands in the U.S. Cavalry during the Mexican Expedition. Paper presented at Patton and Pancho: A Clash of Cultures, A Conference on the Mexican Revolution and the American Military Intervention in Mexico in 1916, Tucson, Arizona.
(2016, October). Book-release event with author reading on Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums at Barnes & Noble, St. Paul, Minnesota.
(2016, November). Guest conductor of the Symphonic Band, Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa.
(2016, November). Music and music education’s place within the humanities. Address given as part of the Eugene and Ruth Weidler Drape Distinguished Professorship. Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa.
(2014, July). The nineteenth century and the birth of the mounted band. Paper presented at IGEB, Hammelburg, Germany.
(2014, November). Horse-mounted bands of Europe: La Fanfare de Cavalerie de la Garde Républicaine. Paper presented at Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini: Music and War in Europe from the Napoleonic Era to WWI, Lucca, Italy.
(2014, November). Online academic journal publishing. Talk given as part of a doctoral seminar, MSI 755 Historical Research in Music Education, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
(2011, April). Civil War cavalry music. Paper presented at Annual Civil War Symposium, America Marching to Civil War in 1861, Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
(2010, August). The mounted band and field musicians of the U.S. 7th Cavalry during the time of the Plains Indian Wars. Paper presented at Historic Brass Society Early Brass Festival, Northfield, Minnesota.
(2007, January). Cavalry music from the Crusades to the Americas. Paper presented as part of a panel, Military Music: Its History, Culture, and Uses, at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta.
(2007, July). The mounted band of the Chicago Black Horse Troop: Military music in the 106th Cavalry, 1929 – 1940. Paper presented at IGEB,
Northfield, Minnesota.
(2004, April). Music education journals: Online and print formats and Logistics. Address given to Council of State MENC Journal Editors, 2004 MENC biennial in-service clinic in Minneapolis.
(2004, April). Cavalry bands of the U.S. National Guard. Paper presented at the 2004 U.S. National Guard Bandleader Conference at the 2004 MENC
biennial in-service clinic in Minneapolis.
