Education Yale
School of Music
- New Haven, CT - September 2008-May 2010 Received Master of Music degree in September 2010
Student of Syoko Aki Played
under conductors Peter Oundjian, Reinbert de Leeuw&Kzrysztof Penderecki Oberlin
Conservatory of Music - Oberlin, OH -
2004-2008 Received Bachelor of Music
degree - May 2008 Concertmaster (2007) – Oberlin
Conservatory Orchestra *Soloist for Rimsky-Korsakov's ‘Scheherazade’ Student of Milan
Vitek and Per Enoksson String Pedagogy class with Joanne Erwin Played under conductors Simon Rattle, David Zinman & Robert
Spano Interlochen
Arts Camp - Interlochen,
MI - Summer 2004 Maddy Award Recipient - One given for each instrument as
determined by faculty vote Winner, Concerto Competition – performed ‘Poeme’ by Ernest Chausson Concertmaster - World Youth Symphony Orchestra Student of William
Preucil Played
under Girard Schwartz and Jung-Ho Pak
Pre-College
Training -
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN - 2003-2004 String Quartet coachings with Tom Rosenberg - Twin Cities,
MN 2003-2004 Performed at Fischoff
National Chamber Music Competition Minnesota Youth Symphonies 2002-2004 Greater Twin Cities Youth
Symphonies 1999-2002
Professional Experience
Orchestral Performance
Minnesota Orchestra section sub performances - Minneapolis, MN - July 2011-January 2012 New Haven Symphony Section Violin - New Haven, CT - September 2010 - June 2011 Eastern Connecticut Symphony Section Violin - New London, CT - September 2010 - May 2011 Waterbury Symphony - Waterbury, CT - 2009-2010
Music Teaching
Faculty Member of the String Academy of Southern Minnesota, Owatonna, MN-September 2011-present CollaborativeOutreach performance/teaching through the New Haven Symphony - various, CT - 2011 Music in Schools Teacher/Performer – Outreach work through Yale School of Music - 2008-2010 Violin Instructor for two Yale College undergraduate students - New Haven, CT - 2008-2009 Violin Instructor for three Oberlin College students -Oberlin, OH - 2006-2008 Violin Instructor for two beginning students - Crystal, MN – 2003-2004
Honors & Distinctions
-Invited to participate in 9th International Carl Nielsen Violin Competition - June 2012, Odense, Denmark
-Honorable Mention & solo performance engagement, Kenwood Symphony, Masters Concerto & Aria Competition - Minneapolis, MN, November 2011
-Participated in the 10th International Mozart Competition - February 2011, Salzburg, AT
-Runner-up for the Knoxville Symphony section violin audition - August 2010