He has appeared as soloist with a number of orchestras, including, with the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, the premier of Rudolph Bubalo’s Concerto for Clarinet and Small Orchestra. He has performed locally as principal clarinet and bass clarinet with the Redlands Symphony, the Riverside Symphony, the Inland Empire Symphony, the Redlands Bowl Summer Festival Orchestra and, as a woodwind doubler, the San Bernardino Civic Light Opera Association.
His publications include New Directions for Clarinet(University of California Press, 1993; Scarecrow Press, 2002) and Playing Woodwind Instruments; A Guide for Teachers, Doublers, and Composers(Waveland Press, 1998; Scarecrow Press, 2002); he has also published a number of ensemble and pedagogical editions including a six-part method for clarinet, Study Materials for Clarinet; The Renaissance Band Book; Making and Adjusting Single Reeds and the edition Etudes for the Twenty-First-Century Clarinetist: a Festschrift for Barney Childs on the occasion of his 64th birthday from his colleagues and former students.
He has recorded over seventy-five works on Advance, Brewster, CRI, Desto, Grenadilla, Roncorp, Edi Pan, Society of Composers, Leonarda, and Zanja labels, most recently Phillip Rehfeldt Plays “New Music” (Advance Recordings) and a CD of Barney Childs’ woodwind music, "a music; that it might be..." (New World Records). He received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in clarinet performance from The University of Michigan in 1969). For the past five years, his focus has been on flute pedagogy in conjunction with the preparation of a seventh (final) edition of his book, Playing Woodwind Instruments.
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