[1] Perkins spent several seasons as a marching member and conductor of The Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps from Rockford, Illinois.

[2] In 2023, Perkins' concert band suite "TUEBOR" was selected as the winner of the American Bandmasters Association Sousa/Ostwald Composition Contest.

Perkins was an adjunct professor of Film Scoring at Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan as well as the Director of Instrumental Music and Music Technology at Fenton Area Public Schools in Fenton, Michigan.

[5] In 2015, Perkins composed a full-length orchestral score to accompany Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 Universal Pictures film The Birds, which was originally released without musical underscore.

Composed in the compositional style of Bernard Herrmann, Perkins’ score reinterpreted the experience of the movie from an aesthetic perspective, drawing the film into the reality of the audience and the live music being performed.