My Education Bonafides

Recently, I was asked for my Education bonafides by a reporter who was doing an article on my Record label, Sweet Songs.  

Here are my Music-related bonafides:

• 1966 - 1974 New England Conservatory of Music - Suzuki Pilot Program - Dana Hall School, Wellesley, MA
• 1974-1980 Conservatory at Rivers - Violin & Performance - Weston, MA
• 1974-1980 Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music - Chamber Music, Coaching - E. Sullivan, NH
• 1980-1984 Hampshire College - Musicology, Music Therapy - Amherst, MA
• 1982-1982 UMass Amherst - Jazz Theory & Composition - Amherst, MA
• 1982-1982 Mt Holyoke College - Music Theory & Composition - S. Hadley, MA
• 1984-1986 UMass Amherst - Ethnomusicology - Amherst, MA

Other Education:

• 1988 Self-Taught MSDOS
• 1988 Self-Taught Lotus123
• 1988 Self-Taught Windows 3.1 (for networking)
• 1995 GCC - Microsoft Excel
• 1995 GCC - Microsoft FrontPage, HTML, Web Design
• 1996 GCC - Novell LAN Certificate
• 1997 Westfield State - Business & Marketing

Organizations & Nonprofits:

• CAMSA - Concord Youth Chamber Ensemble under Gene Rosov
• GBYSO - Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, toured Europe in 1978
• Five College Symphony Orchestra - principal violist 1981-1984
• Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra - violinist 1986, violist 1987
• Valley Light Opera - violinist, violist
• Maple Ridge Bluegrass Band - Greenfield, MA: mandolinist, violinist
• Swift River Bluegrass Band - Holyoke, MA: mandolinist
• Woodkerne Celtic Band - Belchertown, MA: violinist, co-founder, arranger, booker
• Celticado - S. Hadley, MA: violinist, co-founder, booker 
• Mandolin New England - S. Hadley, MA co-founder, President
• Sweet Music Studio - S. Hadley, MA: founder, owner
• Sweet Songs - Granby, MA: founder, owner