Education
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, DMA, Student of Michael Burns 2020-
The Juilliard School, BM 2018, MM 2020, Student of Frank Morelli 2014-2020
Juilliard-Columbia University Student Exchange 2016-2017
Teaching Experience
Assistant Teaching Professor of Music (Bassoon/Generalist), Ball State University (Muncie, IN) 2025-present
Applied Lecturer of Bassoon, North Carolina State University 2024-2025
Adjunct Music Faculty, UNC-School of the Arts (Winston-Salem, NC) 2023-2025
Adjunct Lecturer, Music Theory Area, UNC-Greensboro 2024
Graduate Assistant, Music Theory Area, UNC-Greensboro 2021-2023
Teaching Fellow, Ear Training Department, The Juilliard School 2016-2020
Orchestral Experience
Durham Symphony Orchestra, 2nd bassoon 2022-2025
Billings Symphony Orchestra, 2nd bassoon 2021-2022
The Juilliard Orchestra, bassoon and contrabassoon 2014-2020
New Juilliard Ensemble (contemporary ensemble), bassoon and contrabassoon 2014-2020
Chelsea Symphony, bassoon 2019-2020
Columbia University Orchestra, contrabassoon 2015-19
Chesapeake Orchestra (Leonardtown, MD), Bassoon Fellow 2015
Substitute Musician for Greensboro Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, North Carolina Opera, Charlotte Symphony, Western Piedmont Symphony, Asheville Symphony, Piedmont Wind Symphony.
Training Programs/Music Festivals
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute 2020
Bassoon Faculty Robert Williams, Victoria King, Ke Ma, and Marcus Schoon
Cleveland Institute of Music Bassoon Audition Intensive 2020
Bassoon Faculty Barrick Stees and John Clouser
New York String Orchestra Seminar 2018
National Orchestral Institute 2017
Bassoon Faculty Frank Morelli and John Clouser
Miami Summer Music Festival 2016
Bassoon Faculty William Short
Alba Music Festival (Alba, Italy) 2015
Awards and Honors
Alternates, Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition (with Cardinal Sound Collective) 2024
1st Prize, 25+ category, Charleston Online Baroque Music Competition 2021
UNCG Graduate Fellowship 2020-2021
UNCG Minerva Scholar 2020-2021
Featured on Grammy-nominated album ‘Ruggles, Stucky, and Harbison: Orchestral Works” 2018
w/ National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic and David Alan Miller
Leitzinger Solo Bassoon Competition at Bard College, NY, USA, Finalist 2017