 Mr. Carrettin holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in violin performance from Rice University Shepherd School of Music, where he was a student of Kenneth Goldsmith and Sergiu Luca.He holds a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied conducting with Donald Schleicher, and a Professional Studies Certificate in conducting from the National University of Music in Bucharest, Romania, where he was the assistant to Maestro Dumitru Goia.He studied orchestral conducting at festivals and master classes internationally with Michael Tilson Thomas, Larry Rachleff, Kenneth Kiesler and Michael Morgan, and pursued professional viola studies with Richard Wolfe in Amsterdam and with Ivo van der Werff while a student in the Doctor of Musical Arts program at Rice University.