ABOUT

Awards

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• Composer for the 2021 TV & Film Awards Storytellers Gala Winner of Best Student Film Don’t Drop The Goose

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• Additional Music for Breaking, Sundance Award Winning Film for U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast

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• Assistant Composer for Allen V. Farrow, Emmy nominated Documentary Series on H.B.O. 

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• Assistant Composer for Nightbooks on Netflix

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• Golden Key International Piano Composition Competition, 2016 Second Place Winner 

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• 2016 Debut International Piano Competition, Second Degree Diploma and Carnegie Hall Memorable Medal 

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• American College of Musicians, National Guild of Piano Teachers 2014 Piano Composition Competition, Irl Allison Sr. Award 

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• 2014 Grand Prix winner of Music-Fest Rising Talents Competition 

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• Viola Hartman Piano Performance Competition, Catholic University, 2003 

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• Washington Music Teachers Association Piano Performance Competition, 2002 

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• Washington Conservatory of Music, Honours Recital Audition, 2001 

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• American College of Musicians, National Piano-Playing Auditions, 2001 

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Performance 

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• Carnegie Hall (New York) performance on June 6, 2016, as Winner of Second Degree Diploma, Debut International Piano Competition 

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• World Composers Recital, Golden Key Music Festival at Vienna, Ehrbar Hall on August 3, 2016, to play my own compositions as a winner of the 2016 Golden Key International and National Piano Composition Competitions 

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• Solo piano recital, Casa Labia, Cape Town, South Africa, February 1, 2015: works by Chopin, Liszt, Bach, Debussy, Copland, and my own compositions 

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• Carnegie Hall (New York) recital, March 16, 2014, as 2014 Grand Prix winner of US Music-Fest Rising Talents Competition 

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• Classical recital, Antarctica, 2012, for audience including former US Vice President Al Gore, Iceland President Olaf Grimsson, Sir Richard Branson and Jason Mraz 

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• Jazz recital, Washington DC, St. Patricks Episcopal Church, July 23, 2010, for audience including President and Mrs. Barack Obama 

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• Berklee Graduation Commencement Show 2020 with John Legend

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• Berklee BPC show for Berklee’s Women Showcase, performing with Charley Tiernan in 2019

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• Afrika Grow Festival on New Years Eve 2019, as part of Face’s live band set

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• Radio City in Valencia, Spain, in May 2018, as part of Sarah Khatami’s band

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• Shows at The Middle East in the Joe Cocker Ensemble and the Sarah Messiahs Band in 2019

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• The Lilypad in Cambridge, Boston, in July 2018, with my own musicians playing all original pieces arranged for organ, drums, bass, trumpet and voice

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