An active freelance musician, Ted has performed on trombone with groups including The Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra, the Maryland Choral Society, the National Concert Band of America, and the Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra. He is also on the substitute list of the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. He has done sideline work on trombone for HBO, session recording for SubFamily Records, and played in the pit orchestra for productions of Les Miserables and Newsies at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, NY. He has played under the direction of renowned conductors including Arnald Gabriel and Johan de Meij, and he has performed on programs with Phil Smith, Leon Bates, and Zuill Bailey. In addition, he has performed on percussion with groups including The Capital Band and the Fifes and Drums of Prince William III. He has also played piano and electric bass in the pit for several high school musicals, and he has sung with choral groups including The Ron Freeman Chorale, a Washington DC-based chamber choir specializing in early music.

Ted has worked in a variety of contexts as a conductor. He has guest conducted community, school, and college ensembles, including bands, orchestras, and choirs. From 2007-2013 Ted served as the Associate Director of Bands at Marist College, and he was the Director of the Marist College Orchestra from 2012-2018. While at Marist, Ted conducted and performed at several national music conventions, and he also directed the Marist College Pep Band at games that were broadcast nationally on networks including ESPN2 and ESPN U. In 2018, Ted was named a semifinalist in the American Prize Conducting Competition (College/University Orchestra Division). Read the Full bio