Wheee!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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