I had the unique honor of performing with my dear friend Maestro Joe Giunta and the Des Moines Symphony for their 24th annual Yankee Doodle Pops, Iowa’s largest single-day concert event! More than 100,000 people attended this year on the grounds of the Iowa State Capitol. This annual event is the third largest in the…

Wow! It's been a crazy couple of years! I can't imagine that anyone could have predicted that the entire world would get sidelined from a pandemic. It was certainly a shock when performing arts across the globe just stopped and performances were cancelled or rescheduled - sometimes multiple times. We, like many of our performing…