Paradigm Shift

Astor Piazzolla: Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas

Performance from March 23rd, 2013, featuring violin soloist Aaron Berofsky and Paradigm Shift Chamber Orchestra, directed by founder Jacobsen Woollen.

Latitude 49

Original flute part transcribed for soprano saxophone by Andy Hall. Recorded in 2013.

Aspen

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The Beginning

Wheee!

Serendipity

“Crossing paths” again with my very first cello teacher, the miraculous Andrea Yun!

Dublin Dorkdom

A moment of unabashed James Joyce nerddom, on St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin.

Two Shirley Temples!

Hanging at the bar with my two (slightly underage) cousins, Sam and Sylvia.

Pops

Keeping an eye out for foul balls at the ballpark with my Pops, Ian Woollen: our natural habitat!

Pilgrimage

With my mother, Susan Swaney, at Mahler’s composing hut on the Attersee, where he composed his 2nd and 3rd symphonies.

Gustav in Grinzing

At Mahler’s grave, in the tiny Grinzinger Friedhof just outside of Vienna (and around the corner from a killer Blutwurst).

I do NOT smoke pipes.

With conductor Cesar Leal, playing Arthur Rimbaud in a skit about Britten’s “Les Illuminations” at the Conductor’s Retreat at Medomak.

Vienna Conductor Crew

Proof that conductors CAN play well together! With my amazing colleagues and friends, Paul-Boris Kertsman, Peter Joyce, Rodrigo Sámano Albarrán, Hannah Eisendle, Antonio Losa, Moritz Laurer, and Mason Lubert.

Polish Trot

A moment of enthusiasm with two of my absolute favorites, conductor Mason Lubert and pianist Elisa Wallnöfer in Gdańsk, Poland.

St. Louis (Go) Blues

Pack of Michigan Wolverines reunited at Opera Theatre of St. Louis! With Rehanna Thelwell, Dorian Dillard II, and Roberto Kalb.