Academic Accomplishments:

Sept 2007 –May 2009: Professional Studies degree: Orchestral Conducting at Cleveland Institute of Music
June 2007: Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting at the North Carolina School of the Arts
June 2005: Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance at the North Carolina School of the Arts

Career:

Music Director, Church of the Transfiguration Episcopal Church 2008 – 2009
Guest Conductor with the Ocean City Pops 2007 – 2008
Philadelphia Youth Orchestra 2007 – 2008
Philadelphia All City High School Orchestra 2007 – 2009
Music Director with the School District of Philadelphia Summer Festival Orchestra 2008
Music Director, Stained Glass Playhouse Production of “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” 2007
Choral Director, Beck Lutheran Church – Piano Faculty, Davidson School of Music, Davidson, NC 2006 – 2007
Conducting Fellow, School District of Philadelphia Summer Festival Orchestra 2006
Pianist – Greater Damascus Church, Winston-Salem, NC 2005
Guest Conductor, Salem College Orchestra 2005
Conducting Fellow, Pianist, School District of Philadelphia Summer Festival Orchestra 2004

Recognitions and Awards:

Clifton Matthews Piano Scholarship 2001-2005
Sidney DeKnight Piano Scholarship Award 2001
Philadelphia Alliance of Black School Educators 2001
Kal Rudman/Cunningham Piano Co. Classical Piano Competition, 2001 – Silver
Wallace Loeb Instrumental Competition Winner, 2004
Pro Arts Scholarship Winner 1999-2001
Philadelphia Foundations Scholarship, 2003-2005
Wallace Scholarship – 2003-2005, NCSA
Who’s Who Among High School Students, 2001-2002

Conducting Repertoire:

Bartok: Divertimento for Strings
Beethoven: Symphonies 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Overture to “Fidelio”
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Bernstein: Overture to “Candide”
Brahms: Symphonies 1, 3, 4
Haydn Variations
Hungarian Dances 1, 10
Copland: Appalachian Spring for 13 Instruments
Quiet City
Debussy: Afternoon of a Faun
Dvorak: Symphonies 8, 9
Franck: Symphony in d minor
Haydn: Symphonies 99, 100, 104
Mendelssohn: Symphony 4
Piano Concerto No. 1 in g minor
Mozart: Symphonies 36, 38
Overture to the “Magic Flute”
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
Russian Easter Overture
Scheherazade
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1
Schubert: Unfinished Symphony in b minor
Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat
Tschaikowsky: Serenade for Strings
Symphonies 4, 5
Verdi: Overture to “Nabucco”
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Prelude and “Liebestod” from “Tristan und Isolde”

In the News:

For Now, conducting a class … Philadelphia Daily News – Sep 15, 2009

Rodgers spent six days in Los Angeles studying and conducting the Fantasia score with Mauceri, conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra ……. NCSA – Aug 24, 2006

Piano Virtuoso gets his own baby grand … Lubbockonline – Nov 27, 1998

Philanthropist donates piano to talented boy … The Topeka Capital – Nov 27, 1998