About Me

My love for music started in the womb, as my mother herself, is a concert pianist. My earliest memory was when I was just three years old, and I begged and begged her to teach me the piano and violin. Music pulsed through my veins and I was eager to connect my ability to the songs of my soul. With a passion to learn everything I could, the disciple to practice, paired with my gift of perfect pitch, there was never any doubt that I would dedicate my life to the art of music.

I sang in church choirs, highschool choirs, regional choirs, even making 1st chair in All-state choir in Arizona at just 16 years old. On scholarship, I attended Arizona State Universities highly respected piano program. I earned my BA in piano performance studying with the most brilliant Steinway Artists. My talents were cultivated and enhanced by Robert Hamilton, ( a pupil of Vladimir Horowitz), Dr. Irene Perry Fox, Dr. Caio Pagano, Dr. Andrew Campbell, ( professor of collaborative artist at ASU), and Dr. Hamilton Tesscarolo. During this time I also sang in many of the university choirs while also being awarded with the Katherine Herberger Scholarship for Piano Performance.

I returned to ASU to do a Masters of Music in Musical Theater/Opera Performance. I had discovered during my undergraduate work that my heart’s greatest desire is to sing! My vocal teachers include some of broadway’s finest and current artists; Tregony Shephard, Judy May, and Darlene Kliewer-Britton. In completing my Masters I am now a concert vocalist and pianist as a master teacher in both arts. I have been invited back to the university to act as an honor’s judge for beginner students through graduating seniors for Arizona Study Program, sponsored by the Music Teachers National Association for piano.

With my super power of perfect pitch I can read any score and hear it’s exactness in my head. Once, when in the studio with acclaimed film composer Chad Cannon, he gave me the score for his commissioned piece, Moving through Tea, within minutes I was able to record it. I was also able to teach him the male part and improvised parts that needed a more organic feel. This piece would later go on to be premiered at the Lincoln Center in New York City. I had the great honor of being asked by Cannon, lead orchestrator, to sing for a project with Japan’s famous film composer Joe Hisaishi, through Columbia Records. I went on to perform with the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra, at the Montalban Theater in Hollywood in collaboration with Cannon, conducted by Capital Records, Anthony Parnther. This was the premiere piece, Harlem, written by Cannon that was written in the New York Times.

I have worked with Hollywood film composer Phil Klein, doing a soprano solo, Ave Maria, a work by Johanna Brondijk, in collaboration, organist Dr. Kelly Anderson. Klein approached me to sing to sing for Jackie Chan’s movie, Wish Dragon, which he provided the musical score. Later he and I talked about a me singing for his movie, Medieval, a more Renaissance sort of sound. I also sang for the movie, Compulsive Gambling, a documentary by Rick Rabe.

I have soloed at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, in collaboration with the Millennial Choirs & Orchestra. I have sung arias from Handel’s Messiah, the soprano role for Elijah, as well as A La Nanita, by Conrad Susa. I have soloed throughout the last decade with this organization as 1st soprano section leader as well as overall leader of the sopranos. I have also worked with choirs such as the Pacific Chorale, and the Redlands Master Chorale.

I was the pianist and singer for a live recording of Phantom of the Opera, a radio broadcast at the Long Beach Shakespeare Company. I sang the national anthem for the Boys Scouts of America annual fundraising gala at the Millennium Biltmore in LA, directed by film composer Jonathan Keith. I have sung in musical theater shows such as Fiddler on the Roof, Joseph and the Technicolor Dream-coat, Godspell, The Christmas Schooner, and many others. I’ve also been assistant music directors and music directors with my background in musical theater, conducting, and piano.

After so many honors and opportunities in having music work through me, it was only a natural step in my career to teach and inspire others to do the same. In teaching, my passions are reignited everyday. It’s a thrill for me to see so much talent and love for music with all it’s glorious expression being born through such incredible students. I love seeing them progress, I love challenging them to master a skill they once shied away from, and I love encouraging them to join me in my life’s work and purpose to bring forth more beautiful music into our world.