Awards & Honors

  
2025         Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) "Portland Arts Project" grant 
                           to produce "Long Strings" in July 2025
2022-25   Composer in Residence
​                           at Zidell Shipyards, Portland, OR
​2024         The Burned Piano Project exhibit & concert series
​                           Original instruments and artwork created from an arson fire-damaged piano on display plus performances of original music
                           at The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
                           Exhibition and concert series awarded grants by the Oregon Arts Commission (OAC), Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC),
                           the Trio Foundation, the Zera Foundation, and anonymous donors.
2023         Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) "Arts3C" grant 
                           to support original music composition for "Break to Build 2" in summer 2024
                  New Music Gathering 2023: two full shows
                          “Songs of Post-Apocalyptic Instruments” and "Fierce, Fabulous, and Fully Coiffed: NMG Edition!"
                  Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant
                           to support two large-scale presentations/performances at New Music Gathering 2023
2022         Oregon Arts Commission "Arts Builds Communities" Grant
                           to produce “BODY/LANGUAGE” (in association with Cascadia Composers)
                  Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) "Make Learn Build" grant
                           to produce “Fierce, Fabulous, and Fully Coiffed: Eugene Edition!”
                    Composition entered into permanent collection of the Alaska State Museum in Juneau
                           as part of "DENALI: Music and Art Inspired by Wilderness" Exhibit created in collaboration with
                           Elements Artist Group & Composing in the Wilderness
                           (composition: "From the Darkness, We Sing The Mighty Land Into Being") 
                  Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Community Engagement Grant
                           to produce “Tiny Voices Unite!”
2021         Oregon Arts Commission "Arts Builds Communities" Grant
                           to produce “Fierce, Fabulous, and Fully Coiffed” (in association with Cascadia Composers)
                   Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) project grant
                           to produce “The Phoenix Project: Art in the Time of Climate Emergency”
                  Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Community Engagement Grant
                           to produce “The Phoenix Project: Art in the Time of Climate Emergency”
2020         New Music Gathering 2020 full show
                           “ReFuse: The Phoenix Project”
                  Oregon Arts Commission (OAC) / Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) /
                           James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation Artists Relief Grant
2018         Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) project grant
                           to produce “Music in the Time of Absinthe: The Bohemian Mind of the Young Debussy”
2016         MTNA Teacher Enrichment Grant
                           towards composition study
2015         Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) project grant
                           to produce “Skeleton Piano Dances”
2012         Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Teacher Enrichment Grant
                           towards music composition study
2003         Trinity College of Music: Master of Music, Piano Performance
                            London, United Kingdom
                           Multiple distinctions awarded for Master's work
                           (The U.K. university education system defines a distinction as work achieving national significance in stature)
                           Highest academic grade to date awarded
2000         Trinity College of Music: Mott / Wilner Scholarship
                           for piano study towards M.M. degree
                           Trinity College of Music: Full stipend recipient
                           for private tuition in Alexander Technique
                  Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust Scholarship for graduate study
1999         Hartt Community Division Faculty Development Grant
                           for graduate study in piano pedagogy (cumulative GPA:  4.0)
                  The Hartt School: Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance /
                           Dual Major with German Studies
                           West Hartford, CT  
                           summa cum laude (cumulative GPA: 3.89)
                  Pi Kappa Lambda Musical Honor Society membership
                            for excellence in music and academics
1998         Piano Faculty, The Hartt School Community Division
                           youngest faculty member ever hired
1995         Full stipend recipient, Baden-Württemberg Exchange Program
                           for undergraduate study at the Hochschule Für Musik und Darstellende Kunst &
                           Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany   
1994         Hartt School of Music: Serbin Piano Award Scholarship
                           towards undergraduate piano study
1993         Valedictorian, George Stevens Academy, Blue Hill, Maine      
1992         Maine Youth Jazz Ensemble
                           One of 12 jazz musicians selected to represent the State of Maine on a performance tour of Poland /
                           [then] Czechoslovakia / Austria
                  Arcady Youth Piano Competition winner
                           for solo piano performance

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