He has been principal oboe in the Des Moines Symphony, has performed in the Modesto and Stockton (Calif.) symphonies and is currently principal oboe in the Central Iowa Symphony. He is an avid proponent of period-instrument performance and has performed baroque oboe with early music groups such as the Telemann Society at University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, and Lyra Concert of Minneapolis, and is a founding member of the Baroque Orchestra of Iowa. He plays the oboe, baroque oboe and bassoon with ISU colleague Lynn Zeigler (organ and harpsichord) as the duo Basically Baroque.