NYC-based composer, music director, and collaborator. I have a wide background in classical, musical theater, jazz, and pop. Musical collaborator, coach, and conductor. Pianist and guitarist with proficiency in Sibelius, Logic Pro X, Final Cut Pro, Musicologist and educator. Some recent experience below:
2019 The Metropolitan Opera
Rehearsal Pianist: Orfeo ed Euridice
Directed and choreographed by Mark Morris
2019 Theater 2020, Brooklyn NY
Music Director: The Cradle Will Rock (Blitzstein)
2019 – Present The Growing Studio
Staff Pianist Accompanist for musical theater classes and seminars
2019 – Present Joffrey Ballet School
Ballet Pianist: Trainee program, advanced classes.
2019 – Present New York University; Tisch School of the Arts
Staff Accompanist: Musical Theater department Ballet Pianist: Tisch Dance Division
2016 – 2018 San Francisco Opera
Music Staff: Ballet Pianist
Played daily ballet classes and rehearsals. Served on the music staff for world premiere productions of John Adams’s Girls of the Golden West and Bright Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber.
2016 – 2018 San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Staff Accompanist: Vocal Department
2016 – 2018 Alonzo King LINES Ballet
Ballet Pianist
2016 – 2018 Oberlin Dance Collective
Ballet Pianist
ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2018 San Francisco Conservatory of Music Professor, Music History and Literature
Hired as part time faculty for the spring 2018 semester. Developed original undergraduate seminar for the fall 2018 semester.
Courses taught:
Primary instructor:
MHL 602 “Topics in Music History: 18th and 19th centuries” Graduate review course
MHL 538 “Opera Since 1950” Undergraduate seminar
Substitute/secondary instructor:
MHL 726 “Music Since 1980” Undergraduate seminar
MHL 203 “Music History from 1700-1900” Survey course for undergraduate majors
MHL 204 “Music History from 1900-present” Survey course for undergraduate majors