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EDUCATION THE GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK DMA Candidate, Piano Performance NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC MM with Honors, Piano Performance, 2011 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL BMus with Distinction, 2007

PRIMARY TEACHERS Ursula Oppens, Stephen Drury, Thomas Otten

ADDITIONAL STUDIES CHAMBER MUSIC AND INTERPRETATION Freddy Arteel, James Buswell, John Heiss, Hanspeter Kyburz, Stefan Litwin, Richard Luby, Severine Neff, Donald Oehler, Tobias Picker, Benjamin Rawitz, Terry Rhodes, Rolf Schulte, Brooks de-Wetter Smith, Salvatore Sciarrino, Mark Steinberg, Roger Tapping, Robert White, Stafford Wing, Reed Woodhouse MASTER CLASSES Benton Hess, Jerome Lowenthal, Tristan Murail, John Perry, Peter Serkin, Nelita True, André Watts ORGAN Thomas Handel HARPSICHORD AND CONTINUO Raymond Erickson, John Gibbons, Brent Wissick COMPOSITION Allen Anderson, Alan Shockley

EXPERIENCE 2009-2014 PIANIST Boston, MA and New York, NY • Accompany student/professional recitals, lessons, recordings, and auditions • Specializations in voice, violin, viola, clarinet, and contemporary music • Performances with BSO Community Chamber Concerts, Callithumpian Consort, Collage New Music, Discovery Ensemble, Gregg Smith Singers, Sound Icon, et al. 2013-2014 GUEST LECTURER / PIANIST IN RESIDENCE Critical Theory and the Arts Department, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY • Teach musical form, listening, and analysis • Present lecture-recitals on a variety of repertoire 2011-2012 PIANIST AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Nonce Ensemble, Boston, MA • Planned repertoire for a full season of new music programming • Led and conducted rehearsals 2010-2011 GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT Theory Department, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA • Taught multiple sections of keyboard harmony I-III • Assisted with theory, solfège, and elective courses • Tutored students in theory and ear-training 2008-2009 CO-DIRECTOR University of North Carolina New Music Ensemble, Chapel Hill, NC • Led rehearsals in preparation for a festival performance of Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together with slam poet Saul Williams 2008-2009 TEACHING ASSISTANT Governor’s School of North Carolina, Winston-Salem, NC • Led high school-level orchestra sectionals, discussions, and study groups • Presented performances and lecture-recitals of 20th-century music 2007-2009 ACCOMPANIST / COACH University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC • Guided undergraduate music majors in juries, competitions, and recitals • Accompanied student opera and musical theater productions • Performed a wide variety of vocal and instrumental music

AWARDS AND HONORS 2011-2012 UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP Graduate Center of the City University of New York 2011 JOHN CAGE AWARD for Outstanding Contribution to Contemporary Music New England Conservatory 2009-2011 MERIT SCHOLARSHIP New England Conservatory 2007 DAVID ARONS AWARD for Excellence in Musical Performance University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2006 THELMA THOMPSON COMPOSITION AWARD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2006 FIRST PLACE North Carolina Federation of Music Clubs Competition 2005-2007 SIDNEY M. DOWD MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

LANGUAGES French: Reading and writing German: Reading with dictionary RECENT PERFORMANCES May 3, 2014 SOUND ICON Fenway Center, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Music of Jonathan Harvey April 13, 2014 COLLAGE NEW MUSIC Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA Reich, Double Sextet March 27, 2014 LECTURE-RECITAL School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Music of Schoenberg, Satie, and the New York School March 17, 2014 SOUND ICON College of Fine Arts, Boston University, Boston, MA Boulez, Sur Incises February 14-15, 2014 PERIAPSIS MUSIC AND DANCE Kumble Theater, Brooklyn, NY Music of Jonathan Howard Katz and Felipe Perez Santiago January 19, 2014 TOBIAS PICKER AND MIKAEL KARLSSON (le) poisson rouge, New York, NY Picker, Live Oaks (Piano Quintet) December 18, 2013 OF INVISIBLE CITIES Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA Piano music of Debussy, Sciarrino, and Katarina Miljkovic December 17, 2013 COMPOSERS’ ALLIANCE Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY Copland, Music for the Theatre November 21, 2013 MUSIC IN MIDTOWN Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY Shostakovich, Viola Sonata November 14, 2013 LECTURE-RECITAL School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Ives, Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass., 1840-60” October 8, 2013 NIKITA MOROZOV, VIOLIN Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY Ravel, Sonata in G Major Stravinsky, Duo concertant October 2, 2013 PIANO RECITAL Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY Beethoven, Bagatelles, op. 126, and Sonata in A Flat, op. 110 Ives, Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass., 1840-60” September 28, 2013 SOUND ICON College of Fine Arts, Boston University, Boston, MA Music of Giulio Castagnoli and Luca Francesconi September 26, 2013 MUSIC IN MIDTOWN Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY Stravinsky, Suite from L’Histoire du soldat April 12-13, 2013 FROMM CONCERTS: SOUND ICON John Knowles Paine Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Music of Bruno Maderna and Gunther Schuller March 31, 2013 MUSIC OF SALVATORE SCIARRINO Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA Sciarrino, Nocturnes 2 and 3 March 23, 2013 SOUND ICON College of Fine Arts, Boston University, Boston, MA Music of Elliott Carter and John Aylward (premiere) March 21, 2013 MUSIC IN MIDTOWN Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY Ives, Violin Sonata No. 2 March 2, 2013 GREGG SMITH SINGERS Saint Peter’s Church, New York, NY Choral works of Dave Brubeck, Gregg Smith, et al. February 27, 2013 ASHLEE MILLER, CLARINET Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY Music of Debussy and Schumann February 22, 2013 SOUND ICON Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Music of Salvatore Sciarrino and Fausto Romitelli February 13, 2013 ELLIOTT CARTER MEMORIAL CONCERT Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY Carter, Retrouvailles and 90+ January 18, 2013 BSO COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERTS Fenway Center, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Brown, Music for Cello and Piano December 10, 2012 CALLITHUMPIAN CONSORT Gasson Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Cage, Concert for Piano and Orchestra Stephen Drury, conductor November 30, 2012 DIAMANDA LA BERGE DRAMM, VIOLIN Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA Xenakis, Dikhthas November 25, 2012 GREGG SMITH SINGERS The Belle Haven Club, Greenwich, CT Madrigals and holiday music September 27, 2012 MUSIC IN MIDTOWN Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY Spohr, Deutsche Lieder September 22, 2012 EAST COAST CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE Goethe Institute, Boston, MA Music of Hanspeter Kyburz September 13, 2012 MUSIC IN MIDTOWN Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY Fauré, Piano Quintet No. 1