Study with me!
Teaching at both Longy School of Music and Boston Conservatory gives me the wonderful opportunity to nurture what is creative and unique in my students while helping them to achieve their goals. I aim to cultivate curiosity and encourage rigorous habits for lifelong learning – to develop independent artistic voices backed with enough knowledge and variety of experience to tackle whatever musical opportunities present themselves!
Please feel free to contact me with any questions. I would love to hear from you!
Longy School of Music of Bard College is a wonderfully unique conservatory with opportunities for a tailor-made experience with unlimited creativity. It has a ton to offer including exciting El Sistema and music for healing programs not to mention its stellar faculty. Longy’s mission is to prepare musicians to make a difference in the world and weavs artistry and service together as an integral part of the curriculum. It’s also situated in one of my favorite cities: the beautiful, vibrant Cambridge, MA.
Boston Conservatory at Berklee is the nation’s only interdisciplinary conservatory with dance, music, opera, and theater. Through it’s merger with Berklee School of Music it now affords students myriad resources (including a state of the art well-staffed career center), opportunities for collaborations, standard rigorous classical degree programs, and a Contemporary Classical Music Performance (CCMP) department where I teach! CCMP incorporates influences from early 20th-century classics to electronic music, jazz, pop culture, experimental, and mixed media arts in a professional training setting. BoCo develops the skills and insight needed to achieve a life in music, as performers, composers, teachers, directors, or entrepreneurs.
Check out this video I made discussing a simple, but life-changing articulation exercise and a brief dive into the wonderful, fascinating world of microtones:
And this one where I talk about playing bass and Eb clarinets: