TV, Film & Live Productions

1. Recent TV placements include: Katie Morgan’s Sex Tips; HBO, How Do I Look; Style Network, The View; NBC, Sexual Healing; Showtime, Real World Road Rules Challenge; MTV, Thanksgiving Unstuffed; National Geographic Explorer, Beyond the Glory: Sugar Ray Leonard; Comcast/Fox Sports, Kathy Griffin Show; Bravo, A Cemetery Special; PBS, Life 360; PBS, Barmensen Labs Maxoderm National Ad campaign. International placements: Cote Cours Cote Jargins, Jeux De Societe, Jane Show, Sucre Sale
   

2. Arranged, performed and engineered The Legend 2007 for Mindstage Productions/WTCM
   

3. Score: Drive Time Essays Vol. 2: The Best of InterConnections, UUA 2006
   

4. Received Michigan Arts grant to compose original score for production of Shakespeare’s Tempest, Old Town Playhouse, Traverse City MI 2004
   

5. Various selections are often heard on NPR’s radio magazine All Things Considered
   

6. Opening theme score: With These Hands (2003), an award winning film about Michigan farmers
   

7. White Hair & Wisdom featured in Leelanau Land Conservancy promotional video
   

Awards and Accomplishments

1. Best All-Around Musician 2002, ’03 & ‘05, Northern Express Readers Choice Poll, Traverse City MI
   

2. Tractor featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered, Episode #65, 2004
   

3. 1st place Walnut Valley Festival 2001 & 2002 & 2003, New Song Showcase Instrumental
   

4. Placed in top 5 at the Walnut Valley Festival National Mandolin Championship, 2001 & 2002 (close but no cigar!)
   

5. Player Profile feature article in Mandolin Magazine 2002, Player Profile Don Julin;Stories in Song
   

6. Interview by Terry Pender for Mandolin Quarterly 2001, Jazz Mandolin Part 2
   

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Noteworthy Performances

1. Commissioned to compose and perform original score for Grand Opening of State Theatre
   

2. Featured performer, Traverse Symphony Orchestra, Traverse City, MI 2007
   

3. Featured performer, Mandofest, Lawrence, KS 2005
   

4. Featured soloist, Classical Mandolin Society of America (CSMA) 2001, En Masse Mandolin Orchestra
   

5. Featured performer, Mandofest, Lawrence, KS 2002
   

6. Featured performer, CSMA Conference 2002, Toronto Ont. Canada
   

7. Featured soloist, Mandofest’s Mandolin Orchestra, Lawrence, KS 2001
   

8. Multiple performance tours in Italy since 1999, locations include: Casare Pollini Conservatory of Music, The International School of Florence, Villa Biviano, Circulo de Artisti & various jazz clubs
   

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Teaching Experience

1. Director of 88 Strings, a community plucked string orchestra offered through NMC
   

2. Private lesson practice for mandolin, guitar, improvisation and composition, all levels
   

3. Masterclass on improvisation; Casare Pollini Conservatory of Music in Padova, Italy 2002
   

4. Improvisation = Composition workshop; CSMA conference, Bozeman, MT 2001
   

5. Latin Rhythms for Strings Instruments workshop; CMSA conference, Toronto, Canada 2002
   

6. Mandolin workshop; Blissfest, Cross Village, MI 2000
   

7. Mandolin workshop; Farmfest, Johannesburg MI 2000
   

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Education

1. Studied arranging and film scoring at Berklee College of Music with Michael Rendish 2007 (Skills include: SMPTE timecode, synching music to video (free timing, clicks & wild), converting BPM (beats per minute) to FPC (frames per click), identifying dramatic function of musical cues, spotting a scene, creating a temp score, film technology including camera perspectives, music summary & cue lists, score concept development, overlapping cues, scoring under dialogue
   

2. Received Specialist Certificate in Arranging from the Berklee College of Music 2008
   

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Technical Experience

1. Over 20 years experience recording a wide variety of music ranging from delta blues to orchestral music. Artists I’ve worked with include: Greg Brown, Dave Brubeck, Al Hirt, Leo Kottke, Turtle Island String Quartet, Kenny Olsen (Kid Rock), Traverse Symphony Orchestra, Dee Snyder (Twister Sister), Claudia Schmidt, and many others.
   

2. Owner/Operator of cd & cassette duplication business for over 10 years where I pre-mastered hundreds (and hundreds and hundreds...) of Indie releases.
   

3. Technical proficiency: editing music & voice, mic placement, signal flow, signal processing, acoustic room design & treatment
   

4. Software proficiency: ProTools, Sibelius, Reason, Photoshop
   

5. Boom Operator & Sound Mixer for Brauer Productions
   

    Discography

1. Six Piece Chicken Dinner (Microtones) 1994
   

2. Wouldn’t You Rather? (Big Swifty & Associates)  1999
   

3. Brite Lites Big Insects (w/ Glenn Wolff) 1999
   

4. Mr. Natural (w/ Ron Getz) 2000
   

5. Live at St. Andrews (w/ Tom Bourcier & Glenn Wolff) 2000
   

6. Tractor 2001
   

7. Monday Night at Lil Bo’s (w/ Jason Kott) 2001
   

8. Lonesome Cactus Groove (Neptune Quartet) 2002
   

9. Without Words (w/ Ron Getz & Wes Ivankovich) 2002
   

10. Neptune Quartet (self titled) 2003
    

11. Prospero’s Project 2004
    

12. The Great Thaw (Neptune Quartet) 2004
    

13. Before I Forget (w/ Ron Getz, Dave Collini & Wes Ivankovich) 2004
    

14. Live at Poppycocks (Neptune Quartet) 2006
    

15. So Long Gone (Rusty Blaides) 2006
    

  

    Guest Player

1. Spinning, Claudia Schmidt 2006
   

2. Funny Dog, Susan Gilbert & Plastic Duck 2007
   

3. Let the Healing Begin, Steels Heal the World 2008
   

4. Songs for Sleepy Beings, Half Moon 2008
   

  

    Songs on Compilations

1. Something Fresh, SEEDS 2005
   

2. Musicians CD, Traverse City Film Festival 2007