- Bellingham School District string program, orchestras, advanced string ensembles, string quartets (principal cellist 6 years) 1971 - 1980
- Whatcom Youth Symphony 1975
- Regional honour orchestra 1976 - 1979
- Whatcom Symphony Orchestra http://www.whatcomsymphony.com/ 1976 - 1979, 1983 - 1985
- WMEA All-State Orchestra http://www.wmea.org/StudentEvents/HSHonorGroups/ 1980
- SD83/Community String Orchestra 2003 - 2008
- Monashee Chamber Choir accompaniment/Monashee Chamber Orchestra 2004-2011
- Northern Lights Chamber Choir solo cello performance and choir accompaniment 2012 &2013
- Shuswap Singers choir accompaniment (quartet) 2013
- Shuswap Community Church Choir accompaniment (occasional)
- Various chamber ensembles 1977 - present
About the Suzuki Method:
More than fifty years ago, Japanese violinist Shinichi Suzuki realized the implications of the fact that children the world over learn to speak their native language with ease. He began to apply the basic principles of language acquisition to the learning of music, and called his method the mother-tongue approach. The ideas of parent responsibility, loving encouragement, constant repetition, etc., are some of the special features of the Suzuki approach... More