1995 Categories Spotlight Finalist High School Career
Corps des ballet, Milwaukee Ballet Company; trained with Tricia Coran, West Coast Conservatory, Milwaukee Ballet School; has danced the Shepherdess Esperanza High Doll in The Nutcracker, the four cygnets in Swan Lake, the vision solo in Ballet Heather McCaleb School Simon Dow's Galileo, and Mark Godden's critically acclaimed Angels in the Architecture; first place Dance America and Grand Champion of California State Talent Competition.
Helios Company; former member, Milwaukee Ballet; trained Long Beach Los Alamitos High Ballet Arts, summer programs Houston, Pacific Northwest, Hartford ballet Ballet Melissa Watson Sandvig School companies; toured China LA Classical Ballet; Pilates instructor; ballet teacher; danced with LA Opera.
Classical The Juilliard School; Antares Quartet Wesleyan College; First Place, Concert Eric Huebner Crossroads School Instrumental Artists Guild; Performances: Ligeti Piano Concerto, Carnegie Hall 2006.
Classical Villa Park High Curtis Institute of Music; Young Musicians Foundation Scholarship; Reina Inui Instrumental School Performances: KUSC radio.
Mannes School of Music; Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development; New York Philharmonic A Midsummer Night's Dream Kurt
Masur; title role Metropolitan Opera L'Enfant et les Sortileges James Levine Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra (Slatkin), San Francisco Classical Symphony; Nanetta, Falstaff Santa Fe Opera; Lauretta, Gianni Schicchi Los Danielle de Niese Crossroads School Angeles Opera Samuel Ramey; Paris, Netherlands Cleopatra, Giulio Cesare; Voice Japan Lauretta, Gianni Schicchi; Poppea in Chicago, Lyon; 2005-2006: title role Rodelinda Harry Bicket, Tytannia Britten's A Midsummer Nights Dream Chicago, European concerts with Les Arts Florissants, and Opera Fuoco, Glyndebourne Festival Debut, 2006 as Adele in Die Fledermaus; Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare. 2006 Rodelinda and Despina in Lyon. Classical Flintridge Resident Artist, Pittsburgh Opera Center; performing the Gypsy in Ian Krouse Karin Mushegain Voice Preparatory opera Lorca; Dorabella Cosi Fan Tutte; UCLA: Northwestern University.
Jazz California Institute of the Arts; Los Angeles Classical Jazz Scholarship winner, Van Nuys High Coltrane Scholarship; Playboy Jazz Festival; Shelly Manne Award, Los Angeles Instrumental Zane Musa School Jazz Society; performs/records with Killer Whales Orcastra; Record: Straight Ahead Records.
Jazz Harvard- Westlake Cameron Penn Loyola Law School; USC; composing music for television and commercials. Instrumental School
Past principal dancer Cirque Du Soleil's Dralion with more than 700 performances; TV: Jay Leno, The Today Show; Principal Dancer Anjani's Non Classical Diamond Bar High Kathak Dance of India performances at Ravinia Festival, Lincoln Center, Amrapali Ambegaokar Dance School World Music Institute, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts; choreographed for director Ram Gopal Varma; 2004 acted, choreographed and danced in film Spice of Life; UCLA.
Teacher, University of Missouri; The Blue Man Group Special Events, chorerographer; Motown the Musical; Southern Methodist University; Complexions, Inc. 2000; danced with Dallas Black Dance Theater, Fort Non Classical Jamal Story California Academy Worth/Dallas Ballet, Lula Washington Dance Theater, Donald Byrd/The Dance Group, Kathy Chamberlain Ballet, Madonna's Drowned World Tour, Cher’s Living Proof: Farewell Tour; Broadway: The Color Purple.
Non Classical Washington Performances: Westside Story, Annie Mae and Asbury, It's A Wonderful Life Stephanie Smith Ain't It?, Old Sista Oak, What's Going On; Singer with Medusa and Feline Voice Preparatory Science; background vocalist for Natalie Cole.
Los Angeles County Non Classical Marti Williams High School for the USC; performing as a professional backup and studio singer. Voice Arts