Welcome to the Early Ensembles website! I am dedicated to providing you with the highest quality instrumental music teaching resources for middle school beginning concert band and string orchestra! Click on any of the options below to join the free resource library, shop the Early Ensembles Store, or check out my blog. Scroll down to find out more about me, and what teaching resources I offer.
Browse Products
The Early Ensembles Store has a plethora of useful, high quality products to enhance your teaching, and make your job easier. Early Ensembles can provide you with illustrated major scale sheets (with finger charts for every note), foundational music theory lessons, full curriculum, and much more!
The Band and Orchestra Toolkits come with a wide collection of best-selling products. They come equipped with digital tools like rubrics, assessments, pre/post tests, scale sheets, editable concert programs and newsletters, and more! Visit the Early Ensembles store to find out more.
Method Book Series and Curriculum
Explore the Early Ensembles Concert Band and String Orchestra curriculum! All products are of the highest quality, downloadable PDFs, and come at a small fraction of the cost of the major publishers. Every song, exercise and play test in the books have a corresponding YouTube video with play-along tracks!
About Me
I am a middle school string orchestra and concert band director at my local middle school in Colorado. I graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree focused on music composition. I have taught private lessons on various instruments since 2010, and I have been a public school music educator in Colorado since 2014. I have experience teaching K-12. I have taught for many years, hosted honor band events, built a thriving program, directed countless concerts, and commissioned my own compositions to sold-out venues.
Through my Early Ensembles teaching resources and compositions, I strive to bring fun learning experiences to the beginning music student with a clear focus on core fundamental skills, which are learned through performance. In my works, my goal is to combine my compositional background with my many years of experience in music education to provide teachers and students with exciting resources that reinforce fundamental skills, and equip music teachers to survive and thrive in this profession.
I live in Colorado with my wife Jennifer, my one year old daughter, my chihuahua Roo and calico cat Magic. I spend my free time with my family, lots of daddy/daughter time, and I love to sing and play solo gigs on my acoustic guitar.
