Work Experience

• Co-lead strategic planning, organizational governance
• Oversee $900,000 annual operating budget
• Review more than 900 annual arts programs welcoming 25,000 annual visitors
• Collaborate with 13 fellow Board members and 12 staff

• Coordinate the full Board's review of the CEO's performance and compensation
• Serve as a smaller sounding Board for the CEO
• Focus the Boards work
• Set goals and development agenda
• Coordinate the work of the full Board

• Develop annual work plan for the Board and committees
• Review and oversee all governance policies and practices, recruitments, and nomination process
• Review and oversee Boards’ compliance with the Imagine Canada Standards

• Oversaw $32,000 operating budget; received $15,000 grant from Ontario Arts Council
• Conceived, marketed and produced a concert attended by 540 people
• Invited composers around the world to submit compositions inspired by the theme
• “Celebration of the Oneness of Humankind”; received 109 submissions from 35 countries
• Produced concert featuring compositions by 5 winning composers, the contest judges, and myself

• Conceived, marketed and produced 4 concerts celebrating Israeli, Jewish & Iranian culture
• Oversaw $7,500 operating budget
• Produced concerts featuring compositions for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello and percussion by Parisa Sabet, Noam Lemish, and Dan Deutsch

One-on-one research project mentorship to high school students

One-on-one mentorship to winners of Sounds of Freedom composition competition

Introduction to Composition II (TMU113 H1), Electroacoustic Music and Composition Techniques

• Designed and delivered 30% of course material Lectures/demos and lab work on computers, DAWs, and MIDI orchestration
• Graded weekly assignments and final projects

Theory, Tonal Harmony I, II, III, IV

• Designed and delivered weekly course material lectures
• Graded weekly assignments, final projects, midterm and final exams

 Composing for Film (MUS3222H)

• Guided students use digital audio workstations to compose music for film and animation

Music Skills I (TMU120H1)

• Taught singing, sight-singing with solfège syllables, playing chords & progressions on piano; aural identification of melodies, intervals, chords, and chord progressions
• Graded weekly assignments; conducted skill tests

Piano, Theory, Composition, and History (RCM 1-10)

• Individual composition & piano lessons
• Music theory and history classes
• Group composition lessons

Piano, theory and composition (RCM 1-10):

• Music Theory classes
• Individual piano lessons