Music Teacher/Ensemble Director, 2007 - 2010
Bisbee High School, Bisbee, AZ

•  Created and taught “Rock Ensemble” course.
• Taught guitar, bass, keyboard, drum, mandolin, percussion, and singing to students with little to no experience.
• Organized extra-curricular concerts including a “Street Dance” fundraiser for the BHS music department.

• Designed and implemented curriculum for individual upright bass instruction course.

• When Bisbee Unified School District cut Friday’s from the school week, I led the development of “The Friday Project”. Mission statement: “The Friday Project will empower Bisbee's youth to discover their passions and pursue their interests with the support of the community.”
• Initiated a series of 20+ youth workshops for the 2009 - 2010 school year taught by myself and other community memebers including Sound Engineering, Photography, Cooking, Gardening, Yoga, Painting, and Bicycle Building.

• Private lessons from beginner to advanced in guitar, bass, and mandolin, and beginner level lessons on banjo, ukulele, keyboard, voice, and drums.

• Opened shows for blues legend John Hammond, and Texas guitar vurtuoso Junior Brown.
• Released original music solo album Dylan Charles: Time For Breakfast in 2009.
• Performed/recorded with award-winning Tucson band The Dusty Buskers and other local groups.
• Co-founder of Indie-label Old Bisbee Records.
• Performed/recorded with jazz groups and original music projects in the greater Cincinnati area.
• Participated in Ann Arbor’s renowned Community High School Jazz program.

• 2006 - B.M. Magna Cum Laudi, Jazz Studies (Guitar) University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Musc, Cincinnati, OH
• 2002 - Community High School, Ann Arbor, MI