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Coaching Experience
Music Director/Pianist The Barber of Seville The College of New Jersey
2011
Pianist/Coach Into the Woods The College of New Jersey
2010
Asst. Conductor/Chorus Master/Pianist Suor Angelica dell'Arte Opera Ensemble
2010
Pianist/Coach Gianni Schicchi dell'Arte Opera Ensemble
2010
Pianist/Coach Ariodante Princeton Festival
2010
Pianist/Coach Anna Bolena dell'Arte Opera Ensemble
2010
Music Director/Pianist Così fan tutte The College of New Jersey
2009
Pianist/Coach La Bohème dell'Arte Opera Ensemble
2009
Pianist/Coach A Midsummer Night's Dream Princeton Festival
2009
Music Director/Pianist A Game of Chance/La Pizza con Funghi The College of New Jersey
2008
Keyboardist A Midsummer Night's Dream dell'Arte Opera Ensemble
2008
Pianist/Coach Roméo et Juliette dell'Arte Opera Ensemble
2008
Pianist/Coach La Bohème Princeton Festival
2008
Pianist/Coach Elijah Princeton University
2008
Faculty Pianist AIMS in Graz Graz, Austria
01-02, 05-07
Pianist/Coach Rochester Summer Seminar Rochester, NY
2007
Pianist/Coach Carmen Princeton Festival
2007
Pianist/Coach Hercules American Handel Festival
2007
Music Director/Pianist Mozart scenes program The College of New Jersey
2006
Music Director/Pianist Sid the Serpent Who Wanted to Sing The College of New Jersey
2006
Music Director/Pianist The Telephone/Old Maid and the Thief The College of New Jersey
2006
Pianist/Coach Madama Butterfly Opera at Florham
2005
Chorus Preparation Die Zauberflöte Opera at Rutgers
2003
Chorus Prep/Pianist Scenes programs (2) Opera at Rutgers
2002
Celesta Six Characters in Search of an Author Opera Festival of NJ
2000
Backstage Keyboard Burning Bright Opera Festival of NJ
2000
Pianist/Coach Vocal Institute Westminster Choir College
1999-2000
Pianist/Coach La Clemenza di Tito Westminster Opera
1999
Pianist/Coach Amahl and the Night Visitors Westminster Opera
1998
Pianist/Coach Xerxes Westminster Opera
1998

Master Classes

  • Joan Dornemann
  • Paul Plishka
  • Bodo Igesz
  • Patricia Craig
  • Evelyn Glennie
  • John Corigliano
  • Dalton Baldwin
  • Gabriela Lechner

Studio Pianist

  • Sharon Sweet
  • Norma Newton
  • Jerrold Pope
  • Frederick Urrey
  • Faith Esham
  • Galina Pisarenko
  • Judith Nicosia
  • Margaret Cusack

Conductors

  • Edoardo Müller
  • Rossen Milanov
  • Richard Auldon Clark
  • Michael Adelson
  • Thomas Carlo Bo

Audition Pianist

  • Agent Auditions (AIMS in Graz)
  • AIMS vocal and orchestral auditions
  • Princeton Festival
  • Westminster Choir College
  • Mason Gross School of the Arts
  • NJ NATS

Pianist for Individual Auditioners

  • Marian Anderson Competition
  • Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Vocal Competition
  • Florida Grand Opera
  • Sarasota Opera
  • Syracuse Opera
  • Opera North
  • New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera
  • NATSAA

Selected Recitals/Concerts
Concerts with trio@play (6)
Princeton, NJ/Montclair, NJ
2010-2011
Performance with tenor Philip Alongi
The TODAY Show, New York, NY
2008
Vocal recital
Ipswich, MA
2008
The Opera Project (6)
Lambertville, NJ
2008-2010
AIMS in Graz
Graz, Austria
01’02, 05-07
South Mountain Theaterworks
Bloomfield, NJ
2007
Dorian Piano Trio recital
Doylestown, PA
2007
Megremis Studios
New York, NY
2007
Princeton Festival (2)
Princeton, NJ
2006, 2008
Songsalon Finalist recital
New York, NY
2007
Kirkpatrick Chapel series (4)
New Brunswick, NJ
2003-2006
DMA degree recitals (5)
Mason Gross School of the Arts
2004-2007
Vocal recitals (2)
The College of New Jersey
2006
Vocal recitals (11)
Mason Gross School of the Arts
2001-2006
Faculty recital appearance
The College of New Jersey
2005
Town and Gown Concert Series
New Jersey City University
2005
Faculty Liederabend
New Jersey City University
2005
Lecture recital
University of Dayton, OH
2005
Flute recital
Westminster Choir College
2005
Chamber music recital
Wagner College
2003
Vocal chamber music recital
Hofstra University
2003
MM degree recitals (2)
Mason Gross School of the Arts
2002-2003
Flute recitals (2)
Mason Gross School of the Arts
2002-2003
Percussion recitals (2)
Mason Gross School of the Arts
2001-2003
Vocal recital
Blooming Grove Church, NY
2001
Vocal recitals (5)
Westminster Choir College
1998-2000
BM degree recitals (2)
Westminster Choir College
1998-1999

Orchestral/Choral Keyboardist
Harpsichordist Ariodante Princeton Festival
2010
Harpsichord/Celesta A Midsummer Night's Dream Princeton Festival
2009
Harpsichordist Hercules American Handel Festival
2007
Organist Handel Messiah New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra
2005-2006
Pianist Appalachian Spring New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra
2005
Pianist Schostakovich Symphony 1 Rutgers University Orchestra
2002
Pianist Schubert Mass in G Rutgers University Choir
2002
Pianist Holst Folk Songs Rutgers University Wind Ensemble
2002
Pianist Copland El Salon Mexico Rutgers University Orchestra
2002
Pianist Poulenc Gloria Rutgers University Choir
2002
Celesta Petrouchka Rutgers University Orchestra
2001

Related Skills
Language:
  Partial fluency in German
Diction:
  German, Italian, French
Additional Instruments:
  Organ, Harpsichord
Other Skills:
  Conducting, Supertitles

University Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor (Vocal Coach) The College of New Jersey
2005-2006
Part-time Lecturer (Accompanying) Mason Gross, Rutgers University
2004-2005
Adjunct Instructor (Vocal Coach) New Jersey City University
2004-2005
Adjunct Instructor (Chamber Music) Wagner College
2002-2005
Graduate Accompaniment Assistant Mason Gross, Rutgers University
2001-2003
Finalist, Collaborative Piano/Opera position University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2007
Finalist, Collaborative Piano/Opera position Middle Tennessee State University
2007

Education

Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
D.M.A., M.M. Collaborative Piano Performance (2007, 2004)
Major Teachers: Barbara González-Palmer, John Simmons

Westminster Choir College of Rider University
B.M. Piano Accompanying (1999)
Major Teachers: José Ramos-Santana, JJ Penna, Dalton Baldwin

Additional Studies
Conducting:
  Thomas Carlo Bo
Lieder studies (Vienna):
  David Lutz
German diction (Graz):
  Isolde Haas
Harpsichord:
  Gwendolyn Toth, Gavin Black