Past Academic Appointments

The Boston Conservatory – Faculty
Boston, MA Musical Theater Department

• Vocal Coach, Scene Study Graduate Student Thesis Advisor

• Graduate Music Theory Instructor

The Nightingale-Bamford School –Faculty
New York, NY

• Music Director for Theatrical Productions Music Appreciation

• Substitute Teacher Assistant Director for Choral Program

The University of Texas at Austin – Faculty
Austin, TX

Instructor, Piano Adult Continuing Education

Cantate - Faculty
Busseto, Italy

• Coached and accompanied vocal students in preparation for concerts

• Performed Solo and Collaborative Concerts with other Cantate faculty

Graduate Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

• Instructed applied and group piano for music and non-music majors.

• Curriculum Development.

• Conducted weekly master classes for applied piano students of all teaching assistants.

Graduate Teaching Assistant Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA

• Instructed applied and group piano for music and non-music majors.

Education

University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

• Doctor of Musical Arts, Piano Performance

• Performances included: Solo Recitals, Lecture Recital, and Concerto Performance with Orchestra.

Dissertation:

• Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit: Comparisons Among the Autograph Housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin and the Alfred Schirmer, Peters, Durand, and Dover Editions

• Major Professors: Lita Guerra, Dr. Amanda Vick Lethco, and Dr. Rebecca Baltzer

• Vocal Coaching and Accompanying: David Garvey, Gerard Souzay, and Fiora Contino

• Public Master Classes: Isaac Stern and Martin Katz

The Juilliard School, New York

• Orchestral conducting

• Major professor: Vincent La Salva

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

• Master of Music, Piano Performance

• Major Professors: Dr. Jack Guerry, Michael Gurt, and Dr. Herndon Spillman (Organ).

• Vocal Coaching and Accompanying: Martina Arroyo and Robert Grayson

• Public Master Classes: Martin Canin, Panaysis Lyras, and Jose Feghali

Loyola University, New Orleans, LA

• Bachelor of Music, Piano Performance

• Major Professor: Dr. Janet Swanzy

• Public Master Classes: Phillipe Entremont and John Perry

Business Experience

Academic Designer, McGraw-Hill Education Music Division

• Designed and transferred music courses onto digital platform

• Professional photographer for program

• Composer and arranger for teaching materials

Development Director, The Paper Bag Players

• Solely responsible for all fund raising activities for the company- maintained corporate, government, foundation, and individual contributions through grant proposals and personal relationships

• Maintained the budget, extensive research regarding future contributors

• Copy edited, designed flyers, provided input into the artistic decisions of the company Casting consultant

The Princeton Review, Assistant Editor/Researcher

• Assisted in the production of several guide-books, editing, proof-reading, research

• Supervised associate editors

• Consulted with authors on design and layout of several publications

Diversity Services, Inc., Temporary Services

• Assistant to the president

• Data entry, telecommunications, word processing

• Payroll division

• Staffing

Noted Performances

• International Cabaret Festival, Provincetown, Massachusetts

• Solo Performance at Merkin Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, New York

• Collaborative Concert Appearance at David Geffen Hall, New York, New

• York Collaborative Concert Appearances in Rome, Fidenza, Milan and Busseto, Italy

• Numerous Cabaret shows including Feinstein’s 54 Below in NY with well-known performers in the industry

• The Jazz Bistro, Toronto, Canada

• Solo Performance aboard the Sea Cloud sailing along the Adriatic Sea

• Solo Performance aboard the Caronia sailing from England to Africa

• Solo Concert at The Roosevelt House, New York

• Solo Benefit Concert in New Orleans Nunemaker Concert Hall

• Solo and Collaborative Concert Appearance in Brescia and Busseto, Italy

• Performed concerts and conducted master classes in Central America upon invitation of The Centro Cultural Costarricense-Norteamericano (selected by Piano Faculty at the University of Texas)

• Guest Soloist with the Kansas City Philharmonic

• Solo and Collaborative Concert Appearance in Langhirano and Busseto, Italy

Related Performance Activities

• Director/ The Grace Notes of Greenwich A cappella women’s chorus

• Pianist/ Etcetera Etcetera, West 44th Street, New York

• Organist/ Fordham United Methodist Church

• Music Director / Composer / The Paper Bag Players - New York’s premiere children’s theater

• Pianist/Coach, New York, NY.

• Pianist for singers from City Opera and Metropolitan Opera.

• Pianist for Broadway singers Musical Director for several productions in New York including New Musicals presented by BMI

• Composers Musical Director, pianist, Omni Austin Hotel, Austin, TX

• Five performances weekly as soloist and collaborative artist

Awards

• Winner Student Concerto Competition, University of Texas Orchestra

• Scholarship Dalies Franz Endowed Scholarship, University of Texas

• Scholarship The American Conservatory at Fontainbleau Scholarship

• Louisiana Music Teachers Association State Rally Piano Competition

• 1st Place Tourge Deboise International Piano Competition

• Honorable Mention Nena Plant Wideman International Piano Competition

• Winner Student Concerto Competition, Louisiana State University

• Regional, 3rd Place National Music Teachers Association Piano Competition

• 1st Place Louisiana Music Teachers Association State Rally Piano Competition

  References available on request.