Board membership
Silent Film Music and Sound Archive, board member since 2016.
Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, board member since 2015, Secretary (2025-2027).
Ashland Theatre, board member since 2018, Treasurer (2025-2027).
Pop media reference
Sideways440, YouTuber, "Why Pipe Organs Sound Scary." Posted October 31, 2020.
Invited talks
"Haven't I Heard This Before?: The Music of Philip Glass." Presented at the Hanover Rotary Club. COTU Brewery. Ashland, VA. May 21, 2025.
"The Pleasure of Listening." Presented at the Courthouse Ruritan Club. Hanover, VA. October 28, 2024.
"From the Byrd to the Ashland Theatre: Movie Theaters and Creating the Perfect Place to Listen." Presented at the Hanover Rotary Club. Mechanicsville, VA. November 1, 2023.
“Pre Concert Conversations.” Richmond Symphony, Metro Collection concert series. Randolph-Macon College. Ashland, VA. 2009 to present.
“Strategies in the Subtle Art of Film Music.” Presented at the Shepard Center. Richmond, VA. January 18, 2023.
“Teaching Music in the Time of COVID.” Presented at the Hanover Rotary Club. Mechanicsville, VA. August 18, 2021.
“Unheard Melodies: the Subtle Art of Film Music.” Presented at the Hanover Rotary Club. Via Zoom. February 24, 2021.
“Scared Silly: Music for Frightening Films.” Presented at the 5400 Club at the Jewish Community Center. Richmond, VA. November 23, 2020.
“Standards and Stereotypes: Finding Bach’s Place in Silent Era Film Music.” Presented at the Catholic University Musicology Colloquium. Washington, DC. October 17, 2018.
“Round ‘Em Up!: Music in the American Western.” Presented at the 5400 Club at the Jewish Community Center. Richmond, VA. June 25, 2018.
“Play It Again, Sam: Movie Music and Its Many Shades of Meaning.” Presented at the 5400 Club at the Jewish Community Center. Richmond, VA. June 5, 2017.
“Scoring the Silent Epic.” Presented at the Tuckahoe Women’s Club. Richmond, VA. March 15, 2017.
“The Art of Film Music.” Presented at the 5400 Club at the Jewish Community Center. Richmond, VA. August 22, 2016.
“Music, Egos, and the Art of Negotiation: Glimpses of America’s Most Powerful Music Manager—Arthur Judson.” Presented at the Ashland Women’s Club. Ashland, VA. November 25, 2014.
“Lessons from AJ.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Arthur Judson Foundation. The Philadelphia Club. Philadelphia, PA. May 18, 2014.
“Sounds in the Shadows: the Art of Film Music.” Presented at the Shepard Center. Richmond, VA. February 20, 2014.
“Music and Meaning in Japanese Film: the Case of Kurosawa.” Co-presented with Dr. Todd Munson as part of the Spring Seminar on Japan for Virginia high school teachers. Sponsored by the Japan Foundation/Taylor Anderson Memorial Project. Randolph-Macon College. Ashland, VA. April 2012.
“Confronting the Silent Giant: Arthur Judson and the Politics of Music Management.” Provost’s Faculty Lunch, Randolph-Macon College. Ashland, VA. September 2011.
“Silent Gestures.” Lecture-recital as part of the exhibit “Image and Sound: Jon Brumit, Jim Doering, Wayne Grim, and Christy Matson.” Flippo Gallery. Randolph-Macon College. Ashland, VA. April 2009.
“Scoring the Early Blockbuster.” Pre-screening lecture at the 6th Italian Film and Food Festival, sponsored by the Richmond Moving Image Co-op. Richmond, Virginia. January 31, 2009.
Introduction to the screening of Antony and Cleopatra (1914). Part of the film series at National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in conjunction with the National Gallery’s “Rome Ruins Rebuilt” exhibit. November 15, 2008.