Conductor
“She has a warm and pleasant personality, quick with a smile, and eminently approachable as a person, something extremely important for anyone in a music director role.” – Wes Kenney, Director of Orchestras–Colorado State University, Music Director–Fort Collins Symphony & Denver Young Artist Orchestra
Director of Orchestras
South East Junior High School, Iowa City, IA
The South East Orchestra Program consists of approximately 100 students, two curricular orchestras and multiple extra-curricular chamber ensembles. To learn more about Lisa’s work at South East, visit the Teacher page.
Chamber Orchestra Conductor & Director of String Education
St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA
From 2018-2020, Lisa was an adjunct professor in the Music department at St. Ambrose University. She was the Conductor of the Chamber Orchestra and taught classes in String Techniques & Pedagogy. The orchestra performed four concerts each year, often in collaboration with the SAU band and choirs. Concerts frequently featured SAU music faculty and students as soloists and composers.
Guest Conductor
Lisa enjoys guest conducting and inspiring musicians and audiences, whether in a professional or educational setting. Contact Lisa to explore this possibility. See her experience below.
Professional Ensembles
Chamber Orchestra of New York
Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra
Iowa City Community String Orchestra
Colorado State University Faculty Ensemble
Colorado State University Pit Orchestra
University of Colorado-Boulder Conducting Symposium Chamber Orchestra
Drake University Wind Symphony
University of Iowa Symphonic Band
Goshen College (IN) Pit Orchestra
Educational Ensembles
Southeast Iowa Symphony’s Ruth Keraus Youth String Festival, (Mt. Pleasant, Iowa)
South Central Iowa String Orchestra Festival (Oskaloosa, Iowa)
Southeast Iowa String Teachers Association Honors Orchestra (Bettendorf, Iowa)
Kennedy High School Honors Orchestra Festival (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
City High School Orchestras (Iowa City, Iowa)
Repertoire List:
Classical Orchestra Canon Compositions that Lisa has conducted have included but are not limited to the following composers:
J. S. Bach
Samuel Barber
Bela Bartok
Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonard Bernstein
George Bizet
Ernest Bloch
Johannes Brahms
Benjamin Britten
Aaron Copland
Arcangelo Corelli
Claude Debussy
Elliot Del Borgo
Norman Dello Joio
Maurice Durufle
Antonin Dvorak
Eric Ewazen
Gerald Finzi
Percy Fletcher
Percy Grainger
Edvard Grieg
G. F. Handel
Joseph Haydn
Gustav Holst
Englebert Humperdinck
Norman Leyden
Felix Mendelssohn
Modest Mussorgsky
W. A. Mozart
Jacques Offenbach
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Ottorino Respighi
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Gioacchino Rossini
John Rutter
Domenico Scarlatti
Jean Sibelius
Bedrich Smetana
Gilbert & Sullivan
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Richard Wagner
Peter Warlock
John Williams
Dag Ivar Wiren
Eric Whitacre