I am a musician, flute teacher and performance anxiety coach with 30 years of experience. My special interest in the area of performance anxiety is a synthesis of my experience as a performing musician and speaker, together with my years of coaching and teaching. I conquered my own fears of performing, and I have been effective in helping many students, clients, and workshop participants release their fear of being on stage.

I offer a seminar on performance anxiety called "Performance Anxiety from Inside Out" designed to help musicians reduce or overcome stage fright. I present this seminar at the Wildacres Flute Retreat held annually in the mountains of western North Carolina. I am on the Wildacres teaching faculty, which includes Goran Marcusson, Bradley Garner, and Stephen Preston. I will present my workshop "Radiant Performance: More Concentation, More Confidence" at the first annual Finger Lakes Flute Institute in Canandaigua, NY this summer (2008) with international stars Alexa Still (Australia) and Paul Edmund-Davies (UK). I am also on the faculty of the University of North Carolina Wellness Center where I teach a performance anxiety class three times each year to help speakers, musicians, dancers, salespeople, athletes, actors, and others learn to perform well and confidently under pressure. I give talks and workshops at colleges and universities around the U.S., at national and international conventions, and for private music studios, music clubs and societies, and orchestras (see "Find a Workshop" to the left).