Education

University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon: Sep 2020-Jun 2022

Master of Music in Violin Performance, Violin/Viola Pedagogy Specialization (4.0 GPA)

Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana: Aug 2016-May 2020

Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance, Magna cum laude (3.86 GPA)

            

Teaching/Coaching Experience

Fischoff Chamber Music Academy, Chamber Music Coach

Fischoff Summer Intensive, Chamber Music Coach

South Bend Youth Symphony Orchestra, Summer Violin Coach and Sectionals Coach

TimeAfterSchool, Violin Practice Coach and Violin Instructor, online: Spring 2021-Present

• Instruct weekly virtual practice coachings and lessons

Willow Glen Music School, Violin Instructor, online: Fall 2022-Spring 2024

• Instruct weekly virtual lessons 

​Community Music Institute, Student Violin Teacher, Eugene, OR: Fall 2021-Spring 2022

• Teach private violin lessons with guidance from Shelley Rich, the Associate Director of CMI

Motivate Our Minds, Violin Instructor, Muncie, Indiana: Fall 2019

• Instruct and create individual curriculum for violin students

Elkhart School of Music, Substitute Violin Teacher, Elkhart, Indiana: Summer 2019

• Instruct violin students

Ball State University, Violin Instructor, Muncie, Indiana: Spring 2019

• Instruct weekly private lessons for violin students

Youth Symphony Orchestras of East Central Indiana, Violin Instructor, Muncie, Indiana, Spring/Fall 2019

Youth Symphony Orchestras of East Central Indiana, YSO High Strings Violin Coach: Fall 2018-Spring 2019

• Assist in playing with the 1st and 2nd violin sections during weekly rehearsal

• Lead sectionals

Youth Symphony Orchestras of East Central Indiana, Prelude Orchestra Director/Assistant Director: Fall 2017-Spring 2018

• Teach violin/viola students, ages 5-12

• Follow curriculum set by the YSOECI and adjust for each class level

Burris Laboratory School, Substitute Orchestra Teacher and Sectionals Coach, Muncie, Indiana: Fall 2018-present

• Lead 5th-8th grade orchestras in classroom

• Lead violin/viola sectionals

Freelance, Private Lesson Instructor, South Bend, Indiana: Summer 2016-present

• Recruit violin students 

• Teach ages 5 and up

 

Work Experience

Orchestras

South Bend Symphony Orchestra

Elkhart County Symphony Orchestra

LaPorte County Symphony Orchestra

University of Oregon Symphony Orchestra

• Section violinist and concertmaster

Ball State Symphony Orchestra

• Section violinist and conertmaster​

Muncie Symphony Orchestra​

Kokomo Symphony Orchestra​

Anderson Symphony Orchestra​

Ball State Camerata

Hendricks Symphony Orchestra

East Central Indiana Chamber Orchestra

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Student Employment

• Musicology Graduate Employee at the University of Oregon, Fall 2021-Spring 2022

• Ball State Orchestra Librarian, Spring 2018-May 2020

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Professional Experience

• 1st violinist in Sutton Foster’s album "Take Me to the World," Fall 2018

 

Principal Teachers

Hal Grossman, Associate Professor of Violin, University of Oregon

Anna Vayman, Associate Professor of Music Performance, Ball State University

Yu-Fang Chen, Assistant Professor of Music Performance, Ball State University

Irina Larissa Mueller, Violin Instructor, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Ball State University

 

Masterclass Experience

Solomiya Ivakhiv—University of Connecticut; Assistant Professor of Violin/Viola: Summer 2021

Joan Griffing—Friends University; Professor of Music: Summer 2021

Lucie Robert, Manhattan School of Music and Mannes: Summer 2020

Joel Smirnoff, Cleveland Institute of Music and Julliard: Spring 2020

Oleh Krysa, Eastman School of Music: Summer 2019

Irina Muresanu, University of Maryland: Summer 2019

Chi Young Song, Arkansas State University: Spring 2019

Gregory Maytan, Soloist: Spring 2019

Yu-Fang Chen, Ball State University, Spring 2019

Stefani Matsuo, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Summer 2018

St. Lawrence String Quartet, Fall 2017

Katharina Uhde, Valparaiso University, Spring 2016

 

Music Festivals

ICT Young Artists Academy (Kansas), 2021

Emerald Coast Chamber Music Festival (Florida), 2020

Aria International Summer Music Academy with scholarship (Massachusetts), 2019 and 2021

Accepted into Brevard Music Center Summer Festival and Institute with scholarship (North Carolina), 2019

East Tennessee State University Chamber Music Camp (Tennessee), 2019

Benefic Chamber Music Camp (Indiana), 2018

• Camp Assistant

 

Honors

Graduated Summa cum laude from UO with a Violin/Viola Pedagogy Specialization, Spring 2022

Graduated Magna cum laude from BSU, Spring 2020

Kaminsky Scholarship, Fall 2016-Spring 2020

Hilary Hahn Scholarship, Spring 2019

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