Resume

Orchestras

  • San Antonio Symphony, section violin 1, 2011-present
  • Mid-Texas Symphony, assistant concertmaster, 2013-present
  • Delaware Symphony, section violin 2, 2009-2011
  • Allentown Symphony, section violin 1, 2009-2011

Education

  • University of Delaware, MM, studies with Xiang Gao, international soloist
  • Temple University Esther Boyer College of Music, BM, studies with William dePasquale, former Co-Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra. 
  • 3 years of study with Ellen dePasquale, former Assistant Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra
  • Summer studies with Cho-Liang Lin, Kurt Sassmanshaus, William Preucil and Steven Rose
  • Master Classes with the Emerson String Quartet, Corigliano String Quartet, the Juilliard String Quartet, Pamela Frank, Michael Tree and Lambert Orkis

Festivals

  • Tanglewood Fellow in 2008 and 2009;
    • coachings with the Juilliard String Quartet, Roger Tapping, Mark Sokol, Pamela and Claude Frank. Orchestral work with Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Herbert Bloomstedt and Sir Andrew Davis. Principal Second Violin in 2009 with Kurt Masur conducting.
  • Kent Blossom Summer Music Institute, 2006
  • Concertmaster of FOSJA ‘Orchestra of the Americas’ in Puerto Rico, 2005
  • Scholarship winner at the Aspen Summer Music Festival, 2004

Chamber

  • Member of the Mid-Texas Chamber Players, 2013-present
  • Tanglewood Quartet featured on Japan’s Good Morning News Show, 2009
  • First Violin with the Graduate String Quartet at the University of Delaware 2007-2009
  • Substitute with the Serafin String Quartet on their New England Tour 2007

Teaching

  • Private studio lessons (beginning through advanced), 2000-present
  • Professor of violin at Texas Lutheran University, School of Music, 2013-2015
  • Private teaching at the Tatnall School and St. Andrews School in DE, 2011
  • Faculty at the Delaware Governor's School, 2010 
  • Professor Xiang Gao's teaching assistant, 2008-2010
  • Teacher for music minors at the University of Delaware, 2008-2010